If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
‐‐ Carl Levin
If they want a photograph, then just take it.
‐‐ Keith Emerson
If they want me I'd love to come back. I'm not going to play because I can, I'm going to play because I deserve it.
‐‐ Greg Maddux
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
‐‐ Mother Jones
If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.
‐‐ Mike Posner
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
‐‐ Brad Holland
If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.
‐‐ Peter Steele
If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.
‐‐ Mordechai Vanunu
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
‐‐ Harold Bloom
If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine
If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
‐‐ Levon Helm
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
‐‐ Jane Austen
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
‐‐ Francine Prose
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
‐‐ Robert Caro
If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.
‐‐ Rory Stewart
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman
If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
‐‐ Tom Scholz
If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
‐‐ Mike Ditka
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
‐‐ Branch Rickey
If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.
‐‐ Anton du Beke
If things don't work in education, we need change.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley
If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.
‐‐ Gal Gadot
If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume for NBA.com. I'm a really huge basketball fan... I'll talk all sorts of trash.
‐‐ Genesis Rodriguez
If this be treason, make the most of it!
‐‐ Patrick Henry
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
‐‐ Lee J. Cobb
If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
‐‐ Jay Inslee
If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
‐‐ Alfred Russel Wallace
If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
‐‐ Dana Goodyear
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace
If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.
‐‐ Raul Grijalva
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
‐‐ John Bright
If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle
If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
‐‐ Rachael Leigh
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
‐‐ Ida B. Wells
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
‐‐ Jacques Derrida
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
‐‐ Isabel Allende
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
‐‐ Robin Quivers
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
‐‐ Jane Byrne