Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

Charles Farrar Browne

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Charles Edward Montague

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

William Shakespeare

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

Carolyn Wells

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Austin O'Malley

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Bruce Springsteen

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

B. F. Skinner

We respect the prerogative of debate organizers to conduct the debate sponsors as they see fit. We would welcome Russ Potts if the organizers wanted to invite him.

Harley Shaiken

What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.

Tom Harkin

When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions.

Mike Cassidy

When we came to work here we came with a mission. We wanted to shine light in dark corners and make the world a better place. We wanted to expose corruption. We wanted to provoke thought, debate and, yes, laughter. ...I don't believe that a newspaper is nothing more than a money machine. If you do, dear reader, then we have failed miserably in our commitment to you.

Pete Sepp

We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.

Peter Beutel

We can debate what percentage of the profits should be plowed back into the company and what percentage belongs to the shareholders. Not being a shareholder, I'd prefer to see them err in the direction of spending a larger portion on refineries and new (oil and gas) fields and infrastructure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We can debate over this issue about what to do about the driver's license from here to eternity, ... The bottom line is what we really need to do is work on the problem. What do we do with the undocumented immigrant? What do we do with the people who want to come to the United States? What do we do with employers who need workers from Mexico?

Hussam Ayloush

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.

Jan Adams

We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and other government watch lists. And we succeeded in doing so by making public hundreds of pages of documents that not only confirmed the existence of the 'no fly' list, but exposed many of the serious problems with the secret list. Only by informed public debate can we make our government accountable and our country safer.

Mark Billingham

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

Louis C. K.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Brad Meltzer

People are more twisted than people think.

Laura Wade

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

Martin Brodeur

We'll see what the next couple of days bring and how sore it is. I just twisted it. My leg was under me and I kind of put my body weight under it and I heard it twist pretty hard.

David Walton

If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.

Antonin Artaud

... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)...

Johnny Damon

I wish I could have given him a bear hug and twisted his arm, but he's a pretty big guy. Obviously, we would love to have him here.

Tracy Morgan

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.