Famous Quotes & Sayings

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

Hans Kung

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Issa Rae

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.

Charles Eastman

Yet, if an enemy should honor us with a call, his trust will not be misplaced, and he will go away convinced that he has met with a royal host!

To many doctors this will come as a surprise because it's been a matter of some controversy and speculation and some doctors are convinced it's a problem,

John King

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

Steve Jobs

We convinced people fairly rapidly that survival, at least in the short term, was not an issue.

John Edward

We're going to try to do a little better this time, and I'm convinced we will.

Chief Joseph

We're very happy with stable water, ... However, we're not convinced we're out of the woods yet.

At Oxford it took me weeks to convince the man on the gate that I was the manager. He always gave me the third degree before he let me in.

At the end of that presentation, she was no more convinced than she was before that the endgame has been thought through.

Cost is a big challenge. It's not like hospitals aren't used to paying a lot of money for important things like medical equipment, but it's a little more difficult to convince them that money is better spent on information technology rather than new medical technology.

Tobey Maguire

Do whatever you can to convince him to do the movie.

There's only one way you can convince the customer and that's to give him the experience of driving a diesel car.

Joe Namath

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I'm not at all convinced this recovery we're having is going to be as smooth as we've had in previous recoveries.

Christine Vachon

I'm no longer convinced theatrical is the holy grail.

Barbara Bush

I know we did the right thing for security and for the country, ... I am convinced that out of the recent investigations will come a better system.

Jack Brickhouse

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

I'm convinced that what we're doing here today ? if there is another Katrina that hits New Orleans that we would not see the catastrophic results that we saw during Katrina. There will be some flooding, but it will be manageable type flooding.

Dick Murphy

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

Howard Baker

I'm convinced that they'll come out with a unified position -- perhaps not an identical position, but a unified position,

I'm convinced that given this debtor's history, if this court were to deny the (sale),

John Cornyn

I'm convinced that even if there's not anything, there are groups out there who are going to try to make this nomination controversial even when it shouldn't be.

I'm convinced it can work because I've made it work at another venue.

Tony Stewart

I'm convinced I'm still going to fall off one and crack my head wide open.

I'm convinced if we weaken or destroy (the ordinance) it will have a direct impact on property values.

I'm convinced he would have made it. He hit it perfect.

Alice McDermott

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.

Mark Thompson

if the public is convinced that the corporation is spending money wisely.

If people perceive that all-time high as 'normal,' that's going to make it very difficult to convince them that jobs are plentiful.