Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Rick Perry

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Rick Perry

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Rick Perry

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Tony Abbott

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Tony Abbott

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

Tony Abbott

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Frank Sinatra

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.

George F. Kennan

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Fernando Pessoa

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.