Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

Robert Rainy

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

William Butler Yeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

The Jerusalem

Life in exile, abroad, in a foreign element ... a premonition of your own book-form fate, of being lost on the shelf among those with whom all you have in common is the first letter of your surname.

Tom Daschle

Let us be clear, ... All Americans deserve a tax cut. But surely, the wealthiest among us should not get it at the expense of working families. There's a better way.

Christopher Haiman

Lung cancer incidence was higher among African-Americans and Hawaiians.

Rick Beene

Luke had his best game of the season. To come out in a game as big as this and play the way he did shows what kind of competitor he is. He was a man among boys tonight.

David Ogilvy

Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Robin Munro

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Steve Largent

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Anne Mulcahy

Maggie is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of bringing innovative, technology-based solutions to market. Her experience and strong leadership skills will serve Xerox and its shareholders well and complement the outstanding talent serving on our board.

Ali Noorani

Let's leave our flags at home. Let's make sure we're bringing the American flags.

Edward Davis

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Chuck Robbins

Many of the technologies we're bringing out lend themselves to managed offerings. They are, by definition, complex, and customers are looking for expertise from our partners.

Lorraine Pino

Many of the new businesses that are coming downtown are bringing a new energy.

John Danforth

Let the investigation go forward, ... The investigation has to be comprehensive, all the evidence has to come out, there has to be full cooperation with the investigation by all parties.

Greg Anderson

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

Manouchehr Mottaki

If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Iran's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.

Zeng Qinghong

To promote Sino-Indonesian cooperation accords with our fundamental interest as important developing countries,

Dave Murray

I was surprised and disappointed when the cooperation stopped. We were excluded from the most critical part of the effort.

Benjamin Franklin

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Jiang Zemin

China-Russia strategic cooperation has become a positive factor stimulating the multi-polarity of the world,

Jack Straw

I look forward to the full cooperation of Syria in form as well as substance, ... but I have to say after what I've heard I'm not holding my breath.

Eric Clark

I felt it was important to give law enforcement an opportunity to let us know what they were doing in a friendly environment and for us to share with them our concerns. It's going to take cooperation from all of us to solve the problem though. We have to step up and help them help them us.

Mike Williams

Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them.

Stuart Law

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

David Gilmore

Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,

Michael Driscoll

Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education,

Claire McCaskill

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Daniel Tieken

So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt.

Leo Bokeria

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Martin Jacques

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Abdul Kalam

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Adolf Hitler

Politics is history in the making.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Vajira Premawardhana

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

David Blunkett

No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,

Dave Kaplan

I'm all for promoting Kodiak fish. I always have been.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Simon Lock

We've been heavily promoting it around the region.

Tom Lehrer

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

Shakira

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

Derek Sivers

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Gary Griffiths

The welfare of our young is really everyone's business.

Atharva Veda

O Scholar! Work for the welfare of the nation!

Gregory Benford

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Gerhard Schroder

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.