Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Ronnie Musgrove

As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Ed Koch

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

John McCarthy

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Ross Anderson

The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,

David Hockney

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

David Walker

It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.

David Hume

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.

David Brinkley

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

David Brooks

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the world community. This is our duty to those who share this world with us and to those who follow us: Wherever we see a threat to our environment we must take action

Beatrice Webb

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

David Riesman

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

David Duke

When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

David Brock

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

David Brock

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

David Brooks

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Derek Jeter

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

Denis Leary

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

Alain de Botton

Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

Al Franken

Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

David Walton

I definitely would not need to insure my calves.

David Rockwell

Briefs need limitations and invitations

David Duchovny

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

Bear Grylls

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

Bear Grylls

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

Barry Corbin

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

David Price

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Diablo Cody

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Diana Gabaldon

If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Elaine Sciolino

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Carl Sandburg

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.