All Quotes

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
‐‐ Pat Boone

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
‐‐ Chris Smith

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.
‐‐ Joe Klein

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
‐‐ Ted Olson

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

When politics is interesting, people go vote.
‐‐ Jacques Parizeau

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
‐‐ Cesar Chavez

When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

When posing in lingerie, I suck everything in and pop my hip out a little bit. If you lie on your side and draw one knee in a bit, it makes you look more curvalicious.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
‐‐ John Ortberg

When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character.
‐‐ Pierre Niney

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.
‐‐ Miley Cyrus

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
‐‐ Ari Fleischer

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.
‐‐ Li Peng

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.
‐‐ Mike Turner

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
‐‐ Ted Cruz

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn't think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

When President Obama visited Japan, we were able to confirm that our alliance is playing a leading role in ensuring a peaceful and prosperous Asia-Pacific.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.
‐‐ Terence Winter

When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
‐‐ Rick Moody

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.
‐‐ Ellen Key

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries