All Quotes

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
‐‐ Pat Paulsen

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
‐‐ Brit Hume

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.
‐‐ Tucker Carlson

The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
‐‐ Ben Cardin

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
‐‐ George Stephanopoulos

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
‐‐ Barney Frank

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
‐‐ Bill Maher

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

The Clippers are more valuable in Los Angeles. It's a phenomenal city, a phenomenal market, phenomenal everything.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
‐‐ Ben Folds

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
‐‐ Tillie Olsen

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.
‐‐ Vladimir Prelog

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
‐‐ John Moody

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The closer a brand can cozy up to a consumer with a message along the lines of, 'We're all in this together,' the better off a brand will be.
‐‐ John Quelch

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
‐‐ Arthur Miller

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
‐‐ E. Franklin Frazier

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
‐‐ Louis Kronenberger

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
‐‐ Howard Coble

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.
‐‐ Lawrence Hargrave

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
‐‐ Montgomery Clift

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.
‐‐ Jennifer Lynch

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
‐‐ James Gray

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.
‐‐ David O. Russell

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

The closest I get to any sort of 'designer' items would probably be my weakness for jeans - they don't have to be any particular brand, but I'm willing to do almost anything, go anywhere, spend obscene amounts of money for that elusive 'perfect pair.'
‐‐ Lauren Weisberger

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.
‐‐ John Thune

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We're both from the same background.
‐‐ Marques Houston

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
‐‐ Amos Lee

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
‐‐ Mark Feuerstein

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
‐‐ Dee Hock

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
‐‐ Duane Chapman

The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp