If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro
If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
‐‐ Gary Bauer
If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
‐‐ Brad Carson
If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
‐‐ David Frum
If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
‐‐ Pema Chodron
If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
‐‐ Lou Doillon
If Rob Ford decided he wanted to run for the Liberal Party in 2015, we'd say, 'No, sorry, the way you approach things, the way you govern, the way you behave is not suitable to the kind of Liberal team we want to build.'
‐‐ Justin Trudeau
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
‐‐ James Dyson
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
‐‐ Kate Smith
If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
‐‐ John McEnroe
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne
If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
‐‐ Romeo Miller
If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.
‐‐ Bill Kristol
If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.
‐‐ Arlen Specter
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.
‐‐ Ron Dellums
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
‐‐ Ramsey Clark
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
‐‐ Mary Frances Berry
If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.
‐‐ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.
‐‐ Mikheil Saakashvili
If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
‐‐ Catherine the Great
If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf
If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
‐‐ Henry Williamson
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
‐‐ Itay Talgam
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
‐‐ Vannevar Bush
If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.
‐‐ Alan Alda
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?
‐‐ Alan Alda
If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson
If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
If Scott Brown can win in a state that President Obama won by 26 points, I can win in a district that Obey won by just 20 points against an unknown, underfunded challenger in the Democratic landslide of 2008. It means there is not a single Democrat in the country who is safe.
‐‐ Sean Duffy
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
‐‐ Marc Racicot
If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.
‐‐ Alveda King
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
‐‐ Bono
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
‐‐ Bette Midler
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers