Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Sessions

[My father ] came home from World War II and he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. He was pretty thoughtful about those things, but never, as I said, ever campaigned for anybody. He let me put a [Barry] Goldwater sticker on his pickup truck, but he never put a bumper sticker on his car. We never had a yard sign or anything in our yards, never contributed to anybody's campaign.

Jeff Greenfield

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Goodell

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Jeff Goodell

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

Jeff Goldblum

It's an important fact of life, war.

Jean Vanier

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger...

Jerry Spinelli

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Seinfeld

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

Jerrold Nadler

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Jerome Lawrence

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Jeffrey Gitomer

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Jim Gaffigan

It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.

Jim Gaffigan

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

Jesse Jackson

We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.

Jennifer Morrison

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

Jeffrey Sachs

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Jeffrey Sachs

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

Jeff Gannon

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Jeff Foxworthy

You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

Jean M. Auel

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

Jean Giraudoux

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Jean Giraudoux

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Jean Giraudoux

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Jean Giraudoux

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

James Cagney

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

James Carville

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

James Buchan

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

James C. Collins

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.