Famous Quotes & Sayings

From the Republican standpoint, we need the president to continue using the bully pulpit - in terms of defining the economy, defining the war, defining the war on terrorism. As opposed to that vacuum that was created last year where the Democrats defined the war and oil prices defined the economy.

For this governor to bully the most vulnerable is shameful.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

He is going to use this trial as his bully pulpit in an effort to put that invasion on trial, ... But it's not really in his client's interest to try to hijack the trial and make it all about U.S. violations of international law.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation can't give in to the coercion of some bully countries who imagine they are the whole world and see themselves equal to the entire globe.

Carrie Vaughn

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

I would acknowledge it's difficult not having him here in Albany. Clearly in a perfect world he'd be here using the bully pulpit.

Alex Rocco

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

It is never right to bully those who are weaker or less numerous - just because you can.

People were very cautious, to say the least, because of his reputation as a tough guy who didn't like the U.N. ... In fact, I was the only one who said that Bolton was an intelligent man who could be creative and constructive and wouldn't go around bullying delegations.

Bullying takes so many different forms that, frankly, it's hard to recognize all the time. But it is very important for us to deal with this.

Bullying is never about you. You have the right to explore who you are.

Joseph Wright

Bullying is a public health problem (tied to) the larger issue of youth violence in this country.

Bullying exists everywhere in the world to some degree or another.

Hu Jintao

(China) opposes the strong lording it over the weak and the big bullying the small and has long pledged not to seek hegemony, not to join any military bloc, and not to pursue its own spheres of influence,

I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. It's just a bullying process, and I just refuse to be bullied.

Aldous Huxley

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Ali Khamenei

What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants. They get angry once they see an independant nation.

e. e. cummings

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

Dalai Lama

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Anna Maria Chavez

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Anna Julia Cooper

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Anne Lamott

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

Amy Waldman

Sorrow can be a bully.

Alexander McCall Smith

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

Alexa Chung

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

E. M. Forster

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Lincoln

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Andre Dubus

As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

Andrew Vachss

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.