Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Paul Lambert

I think it's going to slow the shopping around (of student-athletes). I don't know if it's going to eliminate it, but I think it's going to slow it down. It's a good deal.

Bobby Rush

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Bill Nygren

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

Ray Liotta

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

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.

Amartya Sen

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Andrew Weil

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Andrei Sakharov

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Andrew Card

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Al Gore

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

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.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Mark Twain

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Mark Twain

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mario Vargas Llosa

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Martin Jacques

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is the secret-the repertoire. You have to try to consolidate your repertoire. It is a big step if you know how to do that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.