All Quotes

If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
‐‐ Bob Taft

If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
‐‐ Alan Mollohan

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.
‐‐ Susan Rice

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
‐‐ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
‐‐ Learned Hand

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
‐‐ Sophocles

If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.
‐‐ Scott Peters

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.
‐‐ Judy Biggert

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.
‐‐ Arthur Capper

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
‐‐ Craig Shirley

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.
‐‐ Jane Byrne

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
‐‐ James Madison

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
‐‐ Robert Patterson

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.
‐‐ John Battelle

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.
‐‐ Sheena Iyengar

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price.
‐‐ Michael Enzi

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino

If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
‐‐ Spike Lee

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
‐‐ John Templeton

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse