Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

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.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Ernst Mayr

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Chris McNaughton

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Gary Ackerman

Patriots don't let their nation default.