Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Alan Lakein

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Alan Lakein

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Alan Ritchson

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Sunil Mittal

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Douglas Alexander

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.