Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charlize Theron

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Barry Sanders

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

David Kerr

You really need to look at making repairs that are profitable in terms of selling the house. They want to see that pedestal sink.

Frances Wright

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Neal Shusterman

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Vivienne Westwood

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Paul Tollett

That's not going to happen. I don't know the story on Smashing Pumpkins. From what I can tell, they're not available.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'