Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Hazlitt

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

David Morrison

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling.

John Glenn

What this does is create such cynicism and doubt about our whole political system that's it's a dangerous thing for the future, ... That's the reason why I wanted to take the broadest possible look at this thing.

Carl Pope

What this contest proves to me is that average people can solve problems better than our corporate and political leaders.

Henry Giroux

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

Steven Miller

What happens is they sell out to the union. The union took over in the '60s and '70s, and administrators are under political pressure. They don't serve the kids. They serve their political masters.

Ron Shapiro

What makes it different is that it's not only a legal issue but it's been made a political issue. That makes the athlete much more vulnerable. These guys will keep stirring the pot and stirring the pot.

Scott Walker

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Arthur Holly Compton

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Alan Alda

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Al Ries

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Akon

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

John Burnside

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Jose Luis

We shall all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this situation, which can only leave a trail of mistrust and misunderstanding between both sides in its wake.

Denholm Elliott

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Arthur Lim

There is an underlying mistrust of venture capital and private equity that when they come to invest that they are looking for too much.

Tariq Ramadan

There is an enormous amount of mistrust towards me. They say that what I'm saying is too good to be true, and that I must say something else when I speak in Arabic. Trust is missing, the progress made is not acknowledged.

Ronald Reagan

Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.