All Quotes

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
‐‐ Nan Hayworth

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?
‐‐ Kylie Bax

If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
‐‐ Alexis Herman

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
‐‐ Maya Lin

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
‐‐ Krista Tippett

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.
‐‐ Helen Fielding

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
‐‐ Jeff Flake

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
‐‐ Eileen Brennan

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.
‐‐ Rosie Perez

If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.
‐‐ Gene Green

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

If we can't support a woman while she is giving life, then we don't support women.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
‐‐ Asne Seierstad

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.
‐‐ Sharron Angle

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
‐‐ Ben Carson

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
‐‐ Richard Stengel

If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.
‐‐ Michael Hansmeyer

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
‐‐ Max Lucado

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
‐‐ Ben Nelson

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
‐‐ Auberon Herbert

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.
‐‐ Cory Booker

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.
‐‐ James Lankford

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
‐‐ Alberto Juantorena

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
‐‐ David Horowitz

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
‐‐ Jack Kingston

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
‐‐ Barack Obama

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
‐‐ Abdurrahman Wahid

If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.
‐‐ Max Levchin

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
‐‐ Patrice Motsepe

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
‐‐ Gaylord Nelson

If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.
‐‐ Joe Miller