Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Avlon

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Andrew Jackson

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Tom Selleck

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

Vin Diesel

I've directed independent film.

John Thune

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

John Rutledge

So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.

John Ruskin

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

John Stossel

People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

John Steinbeck

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Dennis Prager

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

Dennis Prager

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

Antonio Munoz Molina

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Karl Turner

It seems like to me, police made a lot of procedural errors.

Nikolai Shepel

They took back roads and there may have been no police posts, so that's why they got through without obstacles,

John Campbell

They said, 'we could protect you if you'll tell us what you know,' ... But she said, 'I don't know anything,' and left. There is no allegation that the police took any affirmative step at all to provide protection.

Matt Strauss

It's the No. 1 destination for police in Price Hill.