All Quotes

If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.
‐‐ Cynthia P. Schneider

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
‐‐ Hans Kung

If Prince decided that he liked you, or he liked your art or what you brought to the table, it wasn't something that ended. It was a continuation of that thing until he went to the next thing.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
‐‐ Dan Webster

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
‐‐ Eleanor Clift

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
‐‐ Paul Harvey

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

If productivity grows, the economy does well.
‐‐ Edward C. Prescott

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'
‐‐ David Harsanyi

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
‐‐ Jules Verne

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?
‐‐ Margaret Cho

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
‐‐ Hans Blix

If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
‐‐ Graham Nelson

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.
‐‐ John Niven

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
‐‐ Niels Bohr

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.
‐‐ Jacques Parizeau

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
‐‐ Pauline Marois

If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
‐‐ Usain Bolt

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
‐‐ Ed Gillespie

If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
‐‐ John Nelson Darby

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
‐‐ Omari Hardwick

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
‐‐ George Bancroft

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.
‐‐ Marlon James

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
‐‐ Michel Foucault

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.
‐‐ Angela McGlowan

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.
‐‐ Steve Scalise

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
‐‐ Al Franken