All Quotes

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?
‐‐ Jose Rodriguez

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
‐‐ Samuel Morse

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
‐‐ Nick Turse

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
‐‐ Terry Wogan

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
‐‐ Agnes Macphail

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.
‐‐ Steve Stockman

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
‐‐ John Dingell

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
‐‐ Jim Wallis

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
‐‐ Luis Walter Alvarez

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
‐‐ Bob Filner

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.
‐‐ Eric Cantor

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
‐‐ George Packer

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.
‐‐ Jennifer Ellison

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.
‐‐ Fuzzy Zoeller

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.
‐‐ David Russell

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.
‐‐ Jonathan Frakes

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.
‐‐ Kenneth Clarke

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.
‐‐ Jason Silva

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
‐‐ Antonis Samaras

If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
‐‐ Gbenga Akinnagbe

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
‐‐ George Sutherland

If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

If the public likes you, you're good.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?
‐‐ David Hare

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
‐‐ David Ricardo

If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
‐‐ Andrew Johnson

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
‐‐ Tom Barrett

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
‐‐ Andy Weir

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
‐‐ Phil Harris

If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
‐‐ Sam Altman

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.
‐‐ John Buford

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
‐‐ Jerome Corsi

If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway