Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Donna Brazile

There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads,

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Garel Rhys

It's the underperformance of Mercedes that is holding the whole empire back. If you get Mercedes right, you go a long way toward getting all of DaimlerChrysler right.

Ronald Reagan

The United States is unique because we are an empire of ideals.

Matthew Stover

You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Takeru Kobayashi

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

Sathya Baba

Every one's voice was given equal weight in the empire ruled over by Rama.

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Lee Stephens

There's a legacy to uphold. Once you get to state, you want to keep going back.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Don Martin

This is a paint-by-numbers legacy for Ralph Klein. He doesn't want big monuments or parks named after him.

Phil Hare

That's just who he is. He a very principled guy. ... That's a wonderful legacy to leave.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

Gene Pingatore

Once we were able to open up that 17-point lead, we were pretty much able to maintain that through the third quarter. In that second quarter, there were a lot of steals and just a lot of turnovers on their part, and we started running ...

David King

The only way we can damp it down is to maintain a strict regime,

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Marcus Gronholm

Because I made a mistake in Mexico and scored only one point, I really need to win one of the next two rallies to maintain a strong championship position.

Larry Lewis

We are trying to maintain our program as we now have it.

John Carpenter

There's not a lot of breadth, so I make sure they have the training, that's how you maintain the edge.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Carol Davis

They've really been tremendous with everything -- they just do so much for us,

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.