Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Lamm

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

Robert Reich

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

Vladimir Lenin

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

Vladimir Lenin

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Walter Bagehot

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Jonathan Haidt

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

George Crabbe

Good is done by degrees.

Malcolm Forbes

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

John Malkovich

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.