Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Ani Difranco

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

Tom Boonen

The Three Days are reputed to be dangerous, it's true, but I'd rather ride than stay at home and dawdle. I could train instead of risking a crash racing, but I'd rather occupy my mind in competition.

Rondell White

The thing with me, I think, is I don't know how to dive. With me it's all crash and burn, you know?

Larenz Tate

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.

Leigh Steinberg

The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.

Simon Schama

You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or Rembrandt, and not feel some trepidation. There is always the possibility that you will crash and burn, and the whole thing will be a horrible, vulgar, self-indulgent mess.

Michael Johnson

When the rail network crashes and burns, the road network does too,

Thomas Carlyle

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Rihanna

They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control.

Vic Morrow

I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Michael Imperioli

Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.

Joe Solmonese

When a man walks into a bar, asks if it's a gay bar and starts shooting, there couldn't be any more glaringly obvious and enraging example that we need a uniform hate crimes law and that Congress has stubbornly failed to act.

Ann Wagner

When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.

P. Herbert

When a friend asks there is no tomorrow

Bill Wright

The preliminary stage of screening in my church is that everyone who volunteers fills out an application. It asks whether they have a criminal history and gives the church permission to do a background check.

John Jenkins

Tyco, having been victimized by these defendants, respectfully asks the Court to impose a sentence that reflects the complete impact of the defendants' crimes and makes restitution to Tyco and its employees,

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when your first call is from the president of the United States at 6 in the morning, and your wife asks you if you want to take it.

Ruchi Sanghvi

If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.