Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Ron Gidwitz

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Jeremy Corbyn

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

Bruce Vilanch

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

T. R. Knight

I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Tim Gunn

If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.

Roger Stone

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Tony Kushner

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Michael Rogers

We'll be working 100 percent for Jan in the tour, there'll be no personal ambitions.

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Amartya Sen

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Steve Israel

I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Mario Balotelli

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Eric Greenberg

I'm worth $300 million, and I'm 34 years old,

Mother Teresa

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.