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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. — George W. Bush · 2001 States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush · 2002 In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. — George W. Bush · 2003 I'm the decider. — George W. Bush · 2006 This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base. — George W. Bush · 2004 It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush · 2005 All 17 quotes →

Lyndon B. Johnson11 quotes

If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1968 I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1967 For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1965 We still seek no wider war. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964 Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964 We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964 All 11 quotes →

John Marshall8 quotes

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. — John Marshall · 1803 It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty. — John Marshall · 1803 Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void. — John Marshall · 1803 We must never forget that it is a Constitution we are expounding. — John Marshall · 1819 The power to tax involves the power to destroy. — John Marshall · 1819 The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will. — John Marshall · 1821 All 8 quotes →

Robert Rauschenberg4 quotes

I don't know where I'm going but I'll get there on time. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005 Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg · 2005 I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. — Robert Rauschenberg · 1965 A good collaboration produces universal thinking. — Robert Rauschenberg · 1987

Bill Hicks2 quotes

How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy, don’t you think? Anybody think that? Just once to hear a positive LSD story; “Today a young man on acid…realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves…Here’s Tom with the weather. — Bill Hicks · 1991 I was in the unenviable position of being for the war but against the troops. — Bill Hicks · 1991

Jack Handey2 quotes

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. — Jack Handey · 1999 If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. — Jack Handey · 1991

Janis Joplin2 quotes

Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971 Onstage I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin · 1971

John Williams2 quotes

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960 You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. — John Williams · 1960

Walter Cronkite2 quotes

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. — Walter Cronkite · 1968 To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion. — Walter Cronkite · 1968

Alberto Gonzales1 quote

In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales · 2002

Barbara Jordan1 quote

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." — Barbara Jordan · 1974

Beyonce1 quote

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008

Bill Miller1 quote

Politics is show business for ugly people. — Bill Miller · 1991

Bruce Sterling1 quote

Information is not power. If information were power, than librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet. — Bruce Sterling · 1994

C. Wright Mills1 quote

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them. — C. Wright Mills · 1956

Chester W. Nimitz1 quote

Uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz · 1945

Dale Evans1 quote

Happy trails to you, until we meet again Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then. — Dale Evans · 1952

Dan Rather1 quote

I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend. — Dan Rather · 2002

Garrett Hardin1 quote

Picture a pasture open to all... The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another... But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit-in a world that is limited. — Garrett Hardin · 1968

John Nance Garner1 quote

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. — John Nance Garner

Katherine Anne Porter1 quote

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter · 1962

Kenny Rogers1 quote

You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, and know when to run. — Kenny Rogers · 1978

Lloyd Bentsen1 quote

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. — Lloyd Bentsen · 1988

Mike Godwin1 quote

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. — Mike Godwin · 1994

Ornette Coleman1 quote

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not. — Ornette Coleman · 1960

Ramsey Clark1 quote

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. — Ramsey Clark · 1967

Rick Perry1 quote

Oops. — Rick Perry · 2011

Robert Fulghum1 quote

Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. — Robert Fulghum · 1988

Ross Perot1 quote

If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south. — Ross Perot · 1992

Roy Orbison1 quote

Only the lonely (know the way I feel). — Roy Orbison · 1960

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