Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Johnson

Our American democracy is in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, and there can be little doubt as to why so many U.S. citizens have become increasingly cynical about the integrity of the entire process,

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Fatos Nano

These elections are of extraordinary importance. This will be a society of free citizens no different from other European nations. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Andy Fisher

The modified provisions will provide for the protection of civil liberties of United States citizens while permitting the federal government to continue investigating terrorists and protecting U.S. national security.

Donna Mitchell

Your name is on the list and there is no recourse for you as a citizen. If his name is on one list then it could be on other lists I don't even know exist. It is sort of scary. I feel there is no accountability from the government.

Phil Klay

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

Elliott Abrams

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Lily Tomlin

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Max Lerner

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Maya Angelou

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Oscar Wilde

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Ezra Klein

If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.

Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

David Rosenberg

As for the employment report, I think there's a danger of overreacting over the message from it because this was the third warmest January in the past 112 years.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Ron Krumer

One could say that the life of the prime minister is in danger.

Elizabeth Hernandez

It was worth the cold, the hunger and the danger we went through.

Donald Black

I see no danger is seeing persons spending a dollar on a lottery ticket, but I have had patients who spend enormous amounts of money just on the lottery,

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Madeline Albright

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Robert Broadfoot

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Jack Schwartz

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Javier Solana

The situation is not easy ... but I don't doubt that we will find a solution,

Scott Reid

The system is flawed, no doubt about it,

Trevor Hohns

The omissions are performance-based ? there's no doubt about that,

Michael Charlton

After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 and some that put his IQ in the 50s there is no doubt he is mentally retarded.

Jack Ablin

After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005.

Jason Giambi

Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it.

Dave Odom

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

Ben Wallace

Sometimes, when you have a new coach, a new system, a new group of guys, it takes time to jell together, ... But there's no doubt in my mind that we're eventually going to come together as a team and make that title run.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Rabbi Katz

This is a simple 16-minute speech, but it's so profound. It's one thing to have read it, but entirely another thing to hear it in its entirety. King's speech is one of the top inspirational writings in all of American rhetoric, ever.

Craig Davis

This proposal is unfair because the entire requirement is placed on the taxpayers of Jackson County.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Olesya Rulin

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Lewis Clarke

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Al Naomi

There's no upper limit to category-5, so we're looking at the highest level, the mid-range level, and lower level, maybe like a Katrina-type storm.

Swami Vivekananda

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Tom Brokaw

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Jamie Bell

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Janet Reno

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Brendan Gleeson

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Charles R. Swindoll

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Edward Young

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.