Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Rand Paul

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Rand Paul

Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions and I’m absolutely in favor of. One deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that.

Rand Paul

The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

Ted Olson

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Michele Bachmann

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Adolf Hitler

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

Adam Savage

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Allen Ginsberg

That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.

Aeschines

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Aesop

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Einstein

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Aldous Huxley

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Theodore Roosevelt

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

Theodore Roosevelt

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

Michael Enzi

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.