All Quotes

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.
‐‐ Christopher Monckton

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.
‐‐ James Wolcott

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?
‐‐ Marian Burros

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly became the true love of my teenage years. It was everything I'd ever wanted in a show and more. 'Buffy' quickly became an obsession, and, shortly thereafter, became my gateway into an incredible, insane, indescribably wonderful new world: shared media fandom.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon

If businesses are being given relief, shouldn't the same relief be given to the American people?
‐‐ Tim Walberg

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.
‐‐ Bob Goodlatte

If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because performing in the Olympics in your country doesn't happen to many skaters.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Riva

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
‐‐ Red Skelton

If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I'm not sure that's a responsible course of action.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.
‐‐ Andrew Nikiforuk

If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

If Canelo comes too hard at me early, he's going to be in for a long night.
‐‐ Liam Smith

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground.
‐‐ Klaus Lackner

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.
‐‐ Rick Scott

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.
‐‐ Leeza Gibbons

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.
‐‐ Michael Andretti

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
‐‐ Jean O'Leary

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
‐‐ Ralph Kiner

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
‐‐ Jack London

If 'Castlevania' wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release 'Ghouls n' Goblins,' then maybe there wouldn't be any 'Metal Gear,' and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
‐‐ Xenophanes

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected - sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain.
‐‐ Michael Specter

If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.
‐‐ Chantal Kreviazuk

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
‐‐ Aubrey de Grey

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
‐‐ Al Sharpton

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.
‐‐ Jan C. Ting

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
‐‐ Taylor Kinney

If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.
‐‐ James E. Faust

If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.
‐‐ Melissa Mathison

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
‐‐ John Rowland