All Quotes

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.
‐‐ Crystal Eastman

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
‐‐ Salman Khan

If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.
‐‐ Jim Coleman

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
‐‐ Thurgood Marshall

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?
‐‐ Matt Drudge

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, but promise the guests in an e-mail that you will reschedule the party as soon as possible.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'
‐‐ Nir Eyal

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.
‐‐ Garrett Camp

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
‐‐ John Linder

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'
‐‐ Michael Moore

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
‐‐ George Washington

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
‐‐ G. M. Trevelyan

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
‐‐ Sergio Aragones

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.
‐‐ Max Levchin

If the Gaza ceasefire proves stable, Israel will not remain in the Strip.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
‐‐ David Eddings

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
‐‐ James Taylor

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
‐‐ Bill Gurley

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.
‐‐ Mark Begich

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.
‐‐ Diogo Morgado

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If the goal of the DOT's rule is to prevent companies from deceiving passengers about the total cost of their ticket, why is the department mandating that airlines hide the taxes, surcharges and government fees in the fine print?
‐‐ Tom Graves

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
‐‐ Howard Zinn

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
‐‐ Robert Duncan

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon

If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
‐‐ Dan Gertler

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.
‐‐ Nelson A. Miles

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
‐‐ Garet Garrett

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
‐‐ Sitting Bull