Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Richard P. Feynman

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Ronald Kessler

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Mahmoud Abbas

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Jiang Zemin

Let's find out more about what Bush wants to do with Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and the missile-defense system,

Howard Stern

Let's face it. You got to the head of the FCC, you got to the front of the class the way George W. Bush got out of the draft -- and it's completely fair for me to question,

Robert Lanza

Many people including President Bush are concerned about destroying life to save life. But this is not destroying life because the embryo is fully capable of implanting,

Katie Couric

Many White House photo-ops are staged events, but did the most recent one go too far? President Bush held a video conference on Thursday with U.S. troops in Iraq. But some eyebrows were raised by what came over the satellite beforehand: A Pentagon aide rehearsing the soldiers' answers. We'll have more on that just ahead.

Pamela Falk

Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U.S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U.S. referral.

Ken Warren

Missouri is still in play, partly given the recent trends showing Bush losing momentum nationally and in battleground states.

Rick Woods

Make sure that in the event that you do chose to drive-off without paying for gas, you are in violation of Florida law and the state takes that very seriously.

Freddy Shepherd

Scott has been our main target for a while and we are delighted that he has chosen to join us,

Anthony Cordesman

Serving soldiers develop a tremendous sense of obligation to their comrades, and are trained to see the mission through. They know the military and the risk, and they have already chosen to serve their country.

R. Robinson

Maury County has chosen to maintain its unit schools and smaller schools. As a result, it's impossible and not really practical to have the same identical courses at all schools.

John Calipari

My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.

Pedro Almodovar

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

John Muir

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.

Nicholas Burns

One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.

Elbert Hubbard

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Peter Costello

Senator Sherry claimed $300 to stay with his mum at Opossum Bay.

Kevin Martingayle

No one has claimed Bubba Jenkins is a threat, that he's a dishonest person or that he's a disruptive person.

Drew Carter

I have never ever claimed 100 percent credit for anything that went on that,

Walter Martin

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Jim Ramstad

The one time that regulators comprehensively audited expenses claimed under the CDSOA, they found significant problems,

Elliott Abrams

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

Christine Ebersole

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.

Judy Pardonnet

We are not experts in security and never claimed to be. We are experts in transportation and transit.

Paul Verhoeven

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Ellis Rubin

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Don Seymour

John Boehner has ties to K Street, but they're ethical ones.

Peter Butler

I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,

Andrew McLaughlin

We take our ethical and moral issues super-seriously. As an information company, freedom of speech and expression are fundamental to our purpose.

Kelly McBride

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

Ron Gardenhire

Lew gave it everything he had. It's not like he could've done anything different. We didn't get it. That's just the way it's going.

Guo Shurong

Many veteran craftsmen gave up their jobs of making New Year pictures in previous hard years.

Stan Heath

Sean (McCurdy) gave us some valuable, valuable minutes, too.

Chris Evans

Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

Timothy Noah

Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Dean Wareham

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.

Edgar Allan Poe

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Ed Murray

My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Idina Menzel

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

Proverb Proverbs

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Sathya Baba

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Barry Bonds

Luckily, I'm still playing. Thank God I'm still out there.

Leo Veness

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Stephen Baldwin

Luis Palau is the best-kept secret God ever had.

Corbin Bernsen

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Sathya Baba

Love God with all your heart,With all your soul

George Whitefield

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Ron Pollack

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

Richard Boucher

Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Dennis Hastert

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Denis Kearney

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Deborah Tannen

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Terry Fox

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain,

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Patrick McMahon

give everything they have right down to personal sacrifice.

Deepak Chopra

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Justin Timberlake

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Jessica Valenti

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Howard Stern

I have a personal rule that I'm not going to curse.

Todd Harris

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Eldridge Cleaver

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Denis Diderot

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Miriam Kramer

His rhetoric on everything has been this legislature is spending too much. He also has some pretty significant philosophical differences.

Michael Whitaker

Some of the rhetoric has been embarrassing, even xenophobic.

Mario Cuomo

There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.

Gary Hufbauer

The rhetoric will be stepped up on trade.

Harley Shaiken

The rhetoric is much different this time - this time they're really out to get each other.

Michael Kazin

It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.

Robert Iger

They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.

Paul Ryan

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

John Fund

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

Magnus Scheving

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Dick Wolf

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.