All Quotes

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
‐‐ Renee Ellmers

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
‐‐ Matt Drudge

If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
‐‐ Bill Kristol

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
‐‐ Tommy Franks

If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
‐‐ Leonard Bacon

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.
‐‐ Allen Iverson

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
‐‐ Joyce DeWitt

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
‐‐ John Podesta

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
‐‐ Philip Levine

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.
‐‐ Ted Yoho

If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.
‐‐ Michael Shnayerson

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
‐‐ John Bates Clark

If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
‐‐ Byron Dorgan

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
‐‐ John Marshall

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
‐‐ Bill Kristol

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.
‐‐ John Ridley

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
‐‐ Adam Dell

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
‐‐ Kim Stanley Robinson

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
‐‐ Yitzhak Navon

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
‐‐ Frank Gaffney

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

If the arm got sore, we went out and pitched until the soreness left - we had to, or we would have been dropped from the team. Nothing short of a broken leg could have kept us out of uniform.
‐‐ Kid Nichols

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
‐‐ James Blunt

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.
‐‐ Charles Francis Richter