Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Taibbi

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

Jeff Greenfield

Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Rebecca MacKinnon

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Jim Hunt

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Elizabeth Warren

If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.

Jim Hunt

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Michael Arrington

I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from each party - Barack Obama and John McCain. Neither of them were leading the primaries at the time, but they seemed like the best candidates, solely from a tech policy perspective.

Nas

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

Nancy Keenan

We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Michael Ramsey

Ken did make optimistic statements. What do you expect the CEO to do in a situation like this? He was not lying. He was telling the truth as he saw it. He believed ... and he was fighting a battle.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Harry Aleman

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Jim Calhoun

I thought the shot was going to go in. He had a great angle, great shot at the end to go in and I truly believed it was going to go in. But it didn't. We got the shot we wanted.

Edward Kennedy

Judge Pickering's record reflects a hostility to civil rights and a vision of the Republican Party that reminds Americans of a painful time in our nation's history, ... Those who lack a strong commitment to our nation's fundamental ideals and principles do not belong in our federal judiciary.

Harold Mentzer

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Samantha Shannon

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Norman Rockwell

Guess I never really belonged in Westchester. I was never really happy there. But the hard-dirt farmers in Vermont-when I got with them, it was like coming home.

Gary Sheffield

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Jim Tracy

He's a good little offensive player. He looks like he belongs in the majors. This kid knows how to play. And he's a winner.

Ilham Patu

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

John Barrow

I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

Rocco Buttiglione

We are firm on this point: what belongs to the Italian people must be returned to the Italian people,

Frank Black

Kim reminded (guitarist) Joey (Santiago) she liked my song and maybe she'd do a lyric on top of it, which is fine, because I've written lyrics for it like three times and have never really been satisfied with it. 'Gigantic' part two is in the works! And it's going to be bigger and better than the first one!

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones. He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones, ... He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Chris Clarke

I would say this game is much, much bigger than the first one. It will give us a chance to see how far we've come and where we stand.

Brad Wick

Kenny is one of the toughest guys I have ever met, people just cant see how he can go in with these bigger guys like he does. Its the shock he gives that bigger guy when he hits them that makes them know they are in for a fight.

Jane Smiley

Just look at movies. As movies are getting bigger and bigger and more expensive to produce, the screens that people are looking at them are getting smaller.

Jesse Jackson

Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,

Paul Walsh

Katrina was a hurricane on steroids. For the rest of the year, the pre-hurricane effect -- now renamed the ?Katrina effect? -- will have a bigger impact on consumers that usual.

Bobby Allison

Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand.

Kevin Ford

Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents.

Jiang Zemin

There are still in this world a few interest groups which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there,

Derek Damon

His numbers speak for themselves. He hasn't let up a goal in the NCAA tournament. So obviously we are going to have to make sure we are creating a lot of traffic for him.

Lenny Klompus

The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are creating the initiatives that the governor wants to do.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Jeff Southard

What you're doing is creating an expectation in the public that you're doing something that VDOT won't be able to fulfill. You're setting VDOT up for failure. You're setting VDOT up to take the fall.

Cameron Rast

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

Sam Smith

We may end up spending what the governor wants to spend. But if we do, we are creating a massive hole for next year.

Richard Rohr

You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Kate Warne

I think that the market is in a wait-and-see mood to see whether there is any direction in Friday's reports.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Ron Reagan

I think this makes more sense. We're moving in the right direction.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

Thomas Baker

He emerged as an administrator to be reckoned with, a big-league administrator who embraced that role.

Dave Tippett

He embraced the role and embraced his teammates, and his teammates, in the end, embraced him and played hard for him. That's the scenario we're trying to have.

Jim Rash

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Gwendoline Christie

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

Mark Warner

The idea that the governor can't set a policy for state employees that the majority of legislators themselves have embraced makes no sense.

Bill Russell

It's been cold, but they embraced it. They bundled up. They knew they had to be out hitting the ball, and there hasn't been one complaint.

Aaron Brooks

They were excited about us being here and they embraced us. We thank them for it.

Pete Shelley

It is very eclectic. That was the magic of John, though. He was somebody who embraced all forms of music over the last 40 years.

David Cole

The market out there is so fragmented and volatile right now that it's very hard to predict what will work and what won't.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is a member of the government of Iraq and an official of the government of Iraq, and there are things that are important for us to talk about with him.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Immanuel Kant

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Barry Long

The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

David Briggs

Maybe today is a sign that we can gradually move modestly higher without getting crazy.

Jamie Dixon

He's grown an inch, and he's gradually put on weight. Strength is a big thing.

Phil Dow

If we have a series of big moves up, that would be a shock to the system, ... but, considering where are from a historical perspective, they could go up more gradually and not be a terrible headwind for the market.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Bob Davis

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Marc Garneau

The Liberal Party has taken a beating. Now it's time to move on.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

Ambrose Bierce

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

J. C. Watts

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

David Pursell

The markets will treat it like it's Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger.

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Roberto Azevedo

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Paul Ryan

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

Fred Upton

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Tina Brown

There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is.

Donald Trump

ObamaCare is a complete disaster.

Donald Trump

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

Beth Martin

We're optimistic that we'll restore the rest of them tomorrow.

Ray Green

We're optimistic that we'll get back on track.

Mike Cox

We're optimistic that there's going to be a peaceful outcome to all this.

Russ Granik

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Sara Blakely

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

Zig Ziglar

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

David Young

If one of us puts our back out, we?re really in trouble.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Chad Clanton

We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Vinny Castilla

He's the manager. He puts down the rules. We just work here.

Freddie Ljungberg

I think we can upset some of the big teams,

William Hazlitt

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Moliere

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Pietro Aretino

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

Christine Baranski

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

Adam Davis

That stuff comes and goes. It's something you've got to play through.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Evo Morales

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

Joe Biden

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Anatoly Lebedko

If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.

Richard Rogers

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Jose Manuel Barroso

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Gary Dellaverson

The union is still here, we're still here.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Steve Earle

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.