All Quotes

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
‐‐ Neil Kinnock

If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
‐‐ Theresa May

If we are going to remove someone, which I have no problem with doing, then let's do the 20, not the 10, the very first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
‐‐ James Lankford

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?
‐‐ Bob Riley

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
‐‐ David Cameron

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.
‐‐ Chesty Puller

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.
‐‐ Nathaniel Branden

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
‐‐ Elizabeth Thornton

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
‐‐ Ben Stein

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
‐‐ Howard Fineman

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
‐‐ Richard G. Scott

If we are not free, no one will respect us.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
‐‐ Marlon Brando

If we are not represented, we are slaves.
‐‐ James Otis

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
‐‐ Craig Ferguson

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
‐‐ Derek Bok

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Bruce Kent

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
‐‐ Ed Townsend

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
‐‐ Freya Stark

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
‐‐ Simone Weil

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
‐‐ Alphonse Karr

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.
‐‐ James E. Rogers

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
‐‐ Edith Widder

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
‐‐ John Linder

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
‐‐ Catherine Booth

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim