All Quotes

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.
‐‐ Phil Bredesen

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
‐‐ Omar Bongo

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
‐‐ Raymond Duncan

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
‐‐ Joshua Slocum

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.
‐‐ Steven Burd

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
‐‐ David Remnick

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
‐‐ Andre Braugher

If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.
‐‐ Lorenzo di Bonaventura

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
‐‐ Eric Idle

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
‐‐ Venus Williams

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
‐‐ Heinz Guderian

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
‐‐ Ofra Strauss

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
‐‐ Jane Rule

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
‐‐ George Soros

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
‐‐ Brian Greene

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
‐‐ Shel Silverstein

If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
‐‐ Ron Dellums

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
‐‐ Hans Eysenck

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.
‐‐ Helmut Sohmen

If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
‐‐ Peter Higgs

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
‐‐ Sam Farr

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
‐‐ John Doolittle

If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.
‐‐ Marc Faber

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.
‐‐ Eric Liu

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
‐‐ Edward Grey

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
‐‐ Kofi Annan

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower