All Quotes

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
‐‐ Arianna Huffington

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
‐‐ Keith Ellison

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
‐‐ Sinclair Lewis

The Middle East and South Asia have a lot less in common with America than 18-year-old kids in Boston have with 18-year-old kids in Arkansas.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.
‐‐ Robert Fisk

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
‐‐ Clare Short

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
‐‐ Barack Obama

The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The Middle Eastern woman is sophisticated; she is modern. She knows fashion more than anyone else, and she is really sexy, and she does know how to live fashion, and I think we can all learn from each other.
‐‐ Reem Acra

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
‐‐ Gail Collins

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
‐‐ Robert Frost

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

The middlebrow, I hate.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we've made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.
‐‐ Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
‐‐ Chuck Inglish

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
‐‐ Richard Powers

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.
‐‐ Saxby Chambliss

The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
‐‐ Adam Driver

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
‐‐ Nick Turse

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
‐‐ Bob Simon

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
‐‐ Otto Schily

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
‐‐ Tommy Franks

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
‐‐ Hank Johnson

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
‐‐ David Baldacci

The military is already sexually integrated.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.
‐‐ Liz Trotta

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
‐‐ Jane Mayer

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
‐‐ Kim Jong-un

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.
‐‐ Philip Hammond