Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Chris Patten

What we are still not told is why it is necessary to restrict Hong Kong's civil liberties,

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Jacques Chirac

This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,

Robert Creeley

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Karen Parker

The boaters didn't like being restricted when they didn't have to be. The homeowners wanted stricter regulations.

Jeff Hawkins

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Dan Kimble

There's nothing we can do to restrict them.

Willa Holland

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.