Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Ed Harris

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!

Benjamin Franklin

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

David Cross

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

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.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Donald Trump

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

Donald Trump

These 10 steps, if rigorously followed and enforced, will accomplish more in a matter of months than our politicians have accomplished on this issue in the last 50 years. It's going to happen.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Gary Griffiths

The welfare of our young is really everyone's business.

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Mark Steyn

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.