Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray LaHood

Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha)

Louis Armstrong

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Narendra Modi

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Milton Friedman

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Mark Twain

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Thomas Jefferson

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.