Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

What did you ASK at school today?

Ruben Hinojosa

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Umberto Eco

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Woodrow Wilson

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

Woodrow Wilson

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

William J. Clinton

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

William James

To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along.

William James

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Paul Nelson

Historically, governments that fail to recognize property rights soon fail in the recognition of human rights, ... If Americans can't be secure in their property rights, our democracy starts to crumble.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Jimmy Carter

There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom,

Eugene Debs

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Jalal Talabani

I think we will be able to be the model of democracy and prosperity in the Middle East,

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Russell Brand

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

Russell Brand

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

William Hague

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Jose Padilha

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Kevin Spacey

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Henry Rollins

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

Orson Welles

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

Mike Pence

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.