Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Taibbi

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

Jeff Greenfield

Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Rebecca MacKinnon

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Jim Hunt

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Elizabeth Warren

If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.

Jim Hunt

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

Michael Arrington

I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from each party - Barack Obama and John McCain. Neither of them were leading the primaries at the time, but they seemed like the best candidates, solely from a tech policy perspective.

Nas

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

Nancy Keenan

We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Michael Greenberg

I think it's a black eye for the Bush administration. This opens a Pandora's box.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Jawn Murray

He changed the way Hollywood looked at black cinematography. He really showed Hollywood that the black story can be told differently and, if they don't invest in us, we'll invest in ourselves. So many other blacks are going to be following that lead.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Lil' Kim

has learned through rap images to identify black male culture with a culture of violence.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

Charles Fuller

I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of the past. Colin Powell would not be Colin Powell were it not for the guys in World War II, young black men who went to the war and came back and got an education and fought for their civil rights. It's a mirror to the present.

Katie Quinn

Kids are capable of doing so much more than they think they are. They just need somebody to push them.

Ahmed Qorei

The only thing that matters to us is to have a government in Israel interested in the peace process and capable of signing a settlement with us.

Mike Babcock

He's good defensively, but (Monday) he made plays with the puck, which was nice to see. Sometimes as a defensive defenseman on an offensive team they always want you to do more than you're capable of doing. His game has gotten much better with the puck.

Gary Castine

We just have to keep playing hard and playing like we're capable of. Our trademark through the years has been unselfish play and that's the way it has been this year. The kids understand what needs to be done and nobody forces the issue.

Frank Robinson

We're playing very poorly here. We've deserved to lose. We're not performing the way I feel the team is capable of performing.

Ken Lucas

We've got to try to have another game like (this year's first meeting). This team is very capable of doing that again.

Todd Shirley

I think a lot of it was our defense stepped up. When we started coming up and hitting them like we're capable of, it knocked them out of it. ... It just deflated them.

Bobby Perry

I think it was huge for me to have a big game like this, especially shooting wise. Early in the season my percentages haven't been as high as I'm capable of so to have a game like this is huge for my confidence.

Austin Croshere

I think it's very important to have three strong, strong games. I think we want to do the things we're capable of and put ourselves in a position to win at the end.

Frank Tyger

Keeping your fears to yourself is a form of courage

Oscar Wilde

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to

Chris Coleman

He's got courage. Most people would use a disability as a reason to not do what they love. But not Wade. He's one of a kind. And his courage gives me courage.

Steve Chronister

I thought we played with a lot of courage in the second half. We played a lot better, but Lynnwood never let up.

Socrates

We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.

Edgar Guest

There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is training of a nobler kind / And that's the education of the heart. / Lessons that are most difficult to give / Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Mike Babcock

He's been a courageous competitor. He probably shouldn't have played tonight, but he perceives this as his team and he wanted to lead them.

William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Denny Green

I think the criticism should be on me. I'm the one who made the judgment that the line needed to be revamped.

Gero Neugebauer

I think that there has been criticism directed at Schroeder from inside the party. Schroeder is doing some downgrading of the price of a grand coalition, but that doesn't mean he is completely out of the race for chancellor.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Bob Castellini

There is no criticism of Dan. I just needed my own person.

Jeb Bush

I thought the vice president overcompensated after the criticism he got from the first debate. He was too calm.

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Walter Lippmann

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Joseph Smith

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.

Colin McRae

He was a great guy and full of laughs and great spirit,

Paul Cabana

Guys were joking saying Savy is back so now you'll be ready to go. I kind of laughed and said, 'Oh, you guys are full of it.' They were right.

Bob Harman

There are so many issues and the system is full of holes. It's a mess. Every year the state tries to put a number on something that's nebulous and none of these numbers are ever accurate.

Kate Bush

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Michael Huff

He'll never know, I guess, fully what we go through. But I think he has a lot better understanding.

Donna Brazile

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

Andrew Weil

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Tim Wagner

American intends to co-operate fully with the DOJ's investigation.

Jon Huntsman

It struck us very hard and just about put us under, ... We still haven't fully recovered, but we'll make it.

Rachel Sheinkin

They didn't know what to make of it in Melbourne. They loved it, and they made it their own. But they did not fully have a sense of competitive academics.

Anne McBride

It's an ongoing investigation and one in which we are fully cooperating.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Paul Ryan

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

Fred Upton

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Ted Cruz

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

Tina Brown

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

Tina Brown

There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is.

Donald Trump

ObamaCare is a complete disaster.

Donald Trump

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Patrick Henry

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

John Avlon

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Henry Louis Gates

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Ron Clark

We represent the reputation of BYU, and there is little room for error.

Carol Patterson

We represent all arts. Not just visual. Not just performing.

Tim Johnson

I have to represent my district. At this point, I am very, very skeptical.

Eddie Guardado

I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Charles Freeman

Stop Undermining My Constitutional Right to Represent Myself.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

James Davis

We are very divided. In a sense, we represent the United States.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jarvis Herring

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

Clay Hensley

I had a rough first inning. I don't think it was jitters. I was just trying to be too fine, but then I started settling down.

Larry Phillips

It's been a rough, a rough year. Really rough year,

Jerry Huffman

It's very rough and it's not going to be over tomorrow or the day after. Something like this you're never going to get over. There's a void now.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Mia Washington

It was a rough game. We just weren't competitive tonight.

Zach Pollakoff

Our shows can be uplifting for somebody having a rough day.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity is objective.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Laura Miller

It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,

Henry Morton Stanley

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.