Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mia Love

Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

Mario Cuomo

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

Chuck Todd

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

Jonathan Turley

There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.

Chuck Todd

Barack Obama's official nomination as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. He's holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

Tom Brokaw

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

Tim Scott

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Charlie Pierce

As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

Elliott Abrams

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Antonio Tabucchi

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

William Shakespeare

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.

Mark Helprin

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Bill Nye

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Bertrand Russell

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Mark Bubriski

The personality is stronger than the policies. These are issues that Democrats are talking about.

Philippe Reines

As she said, under Republican rule the House leadership has stifled real and substantive debate, preventing Democrats from offering amendments and engaging in real discussion.

Howard Dean

It's a sensible plan. It's a thoughtful plan. I think Democrats can coalesce around it.

Karen Thurman

The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how incompetent they've been, and how divided. We're not going to roll over for Texas oil companies. Democrats will make sure our seniors can get the medicines they need at a price they can afford...

Hilary Clinton

A year ago everyone had written Democrats off. The media had taken for granted the re-election of George Bush. Isn't it fun to prove them wrong?

Joseph C. Wilson

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Bill Richardson

So what we want to do is send a message that the Democrats and Sen. Kerry are positive -- that we're going to talk about what we're going to do on the economy, on health care, on foreign policy, on national security and not make this into a big bashing of the president,

Dan McLagan

These are the same Democrats that called the governor's suspension of the gas tax last year a gimmick. It's sad that they're playing partisan politics with gas prices.

Larry Makinson

This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.

Pam Borton

A lot of things hurt us the last two games... fundamentals, physical play, decision-making, people showing up ready to play. Even as coaches, we have to work harder. We all share in the responsibility of what happened. We can't put it all on the kids. It's up to as a staff to get us headed in the right direction. This will be our test.

Michael Pond

This confirms our expectations that rates should be headed higher here as people are pricing in a more hawkish Fed.

Clark Yingst

This morning's PPI would suggest to us in all likelihood, the market has yet seen its bottom, and it's probably headed lower.

Jim Ledford

Yes it's true. He's headed to Oklahoma State.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Mark Kulda

We were kind of in the middle of the road. We're in the top 20 and probably headed to the top 15.

Terry Trippler

If a Northwest plane headed to Minot has to return to Minneapolis-St. Paul and an American plane has to return to Dallas, which one will hit the (local) news? That's the reality Northwest has to handle.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Donna Harper

It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jacob, was a sophomore here. He had written a paper about John Steinbeck. He wanted to present this paper at one of the conferences I went to, but I told him they didn't let students do that.

Joe Gottfried

They met with John (Wednesday), but other than that, there's no changes. He didn't say a whole lot about (the interview). We talked some about it, but it's just he and I talking (about it).

John Chamberlain

This is a film of John Chamberlain and his friends on acid,

David Garrow

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Mark Forest

Absentee voters used to be a unique demographic group. Now they're more likely to look like the rest of the state with each passing election.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Khuram Chaudhry

It seems like the U.S. markets are likely to see a sloppy start after Friday's sessions,

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Meredith Ostrom

I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.

Georgina Chapman

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Toby Dodge

It's pretty messy and I think ultimately it won't do anything positive but just aggravate the violence.

Lynn Johnson

Noisy from about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, messy all over the sidewalks.

John Galsworthy

Beginnings are always messy.

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Monica Crowley

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

Ted Cruz

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

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

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

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Josh Lucas

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Adam Ereli

We will also make the point that all protests and demonstrations need to be peaceful, legal; all parties should refrain from violence.

Susan Gray

This was different than some other parties because of the sheer numbers,

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Rosa Hawkins

We do weddings and we do private parties and we do all of that stuff.

Beth Moore

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started. We've got to be able to prove ourselves. I think it's very, very evident, we're not a Top 5, Top 10, Top 15 team.

African Proverbs

The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Mike Lieberthal

It's time to play. We can talk all we want about how talented we are and things that. You have to go out and play and prove it.

Steven Duke

They're liars, ... I can prove that they signed them. I will do that through notaries and through photographs and witnesses.

Robert Hormats

They're doing what's proved to work in the past, which is to tighten rates.

Gene Keady

At least now I can actually prove to my wife that I did something for once,

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Alan Watts

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Alan Moore

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Alan Greenspan

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Alan Greenspan

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

Alan Colmes

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.