Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Carol Vorderman

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

Carol Vorderman

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

Carlos Mencia

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

Carlos Ghosn

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

Carlos Castaneda

It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.

Carl Bernstein

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

C. S. Lewis

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

C. S. Lewis

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.