All Quotes

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
‐‐ Jupiter Hammon

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
‐‐ Arthur Capper

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
‐‐ Diane Watson

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
‐‐ Abba Eban

It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.
‐‐ Shirley Williams

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
‐‐ Jose Maria Aznar

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
‐‐ Jonathan Mayhew

It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
‐‐ Elton Gallegly

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
‐‐ Gaston Caperton

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

It is our job as always to focus on what we can control in the business.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.
‐‐ Gus O'Donnell

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.
‐‐ Iyad Allawi

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
‐‐ Brian Baird

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.
‐‐ Lin Dan

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
‐‐ Franz Boas

It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.
‐‐ John Bracken

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
‐‐ Bob Ney

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
‐‐ Ignatius of Antioch

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

It is over with; I am in the history books.
‐‐ Michael Moorer

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
‐‐ Sherry Turkle

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
‐‐ Plutarch

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
‐‐ George Herbert

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.
‐‐ Melania Trump

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
‐‐ Nigel Rees

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.
‐‐ Henry Grunwald

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
‐‐ Bill Brandt

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.
‐‐ Horst Koehler

It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
‐‐ John Gurdon

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown