All Quotes

A conductor should guide rather than command.
‐‐ Riccardo Muti

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
‐‐ Fred Allen

A confession has to be part of your new life.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
‐‐ Amos Oz

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
‐‐ Grace Napolitano

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
‐‐ Mark Foley

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
‐‐ Alphonse de Lamartine

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
‐‐ Abba Eban

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
‐‐ John Major

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
‐‐ N. T. Wright

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
‐‐ Gough Whitlam

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
‐‐ Frank Dane

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
‐‐ Frank Rizzo

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
‐‐ Douglas Jerrold

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
‐‐ Mort Sahl

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
‐‐ Karl Abraham

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
‐‐ Dambisa Moyo

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
‐‐ Aristotle

A Constitution should be short and obscure.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
‐‐ Hassan Rouhani

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.
‐‐ John Madden

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
‐‐ Harold Coffin

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.
‐‐ Ken Buck