All Quotes

If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
‐‐ M. Stanton Evans

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
‐‐ Kofi Annan

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
‐‐ Gijs de Vries

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for him, and fewer people would have to die.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.
‐‐ James Gleick

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
‐‐ George MacDonald

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
‐‐ Barney Oliver

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.
‐‐ Pope Francis

If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?
‐‐ Sasa Vucinic

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Ben Stein

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.
‐‐ Liam Fox

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.
‐‐ Moshe Katsav

If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, we will need a new calendar in the world - it would change humanity that much. Iran will give these weapons to terrorists the world over, and your children and mine will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism.
‐‐ Trent Franks

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
‐‐ John Bolton

If Iran wants their money back and wants to be treated like a normal nation, they need to act like a normal nation.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
‐‐ James Joyce

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
‐‐ Murray Walker

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
‐‐ Mos Def

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.
‐‐ Richard Engel

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
‐‐ Rob Morrow

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
‐‐ Samuel Hopkins

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
‐‐ Abraham Cahan

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
‐‐ Kate O'Brien

If it bleeds, we can kill it.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.
‐‐ Jeremih

If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
‐‐ Mattie Stepanek

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
‐‐ Rob Walton

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick