Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
View quotes by P J O'Rourke
Pre-game pep talk before facing England: 'Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They've taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our houses and they only live in them for a fortnight every 12 months. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We've been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English - and that's who you are playing this afternoon'
View quotes by Phil Bennett
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
View quotes by Rodney Dangerfield
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force
View quotes by Dorothy L Sayers
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
View quotes by Susanne Langer
Ours is like Jewish humour with a sun tan - warm, family-based. We share a lot of neuroses such as food, guilt, overachieving children and controlling mothers. [on Asian humour]
View quotes by Meera Syal
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
View quotes by Heraclitus
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
View quotes by Sir Oswald Mosley
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
View quotes by Osbert Lancaster
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
View quotes by Howard Zinn
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
View quotes by Edgar Watson Howe
The boats are streamlined, advertisement splattered, potential coffins, and are controlled on a knife-edge balance of courage and sense.
View quotes by Simon Barnes
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
View quotes by Norman Douglas
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
View quotes by Epictetus
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me
View quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
View quotes by Philip Crosby
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
View quotes by Benjamin Cohen
I feel I can really get into the Jive as it's a relaxed dance - not very controlled and restricted
View quotes by Matthew Cutler
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
View quotes by Michael Ende
I would like to see two independent wavelengths - one controlled by women, and one for us, controlled by men
View quotes by Patrick Moore
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgement.
View quotes by Marshall Field
Sex is a flame which uncontrolled may scorch; properly guided, it will light the torch of eternity
View quotes by Joseph Fetterman
I just stroll in right before the recording goes on.
View quotes by Humphrey Lyttelton
When I put stuff in the supermarket trolley, I don't think about how much it costs, just whether I want it or not.
View quotes by Stan Stevens
When I put stuff in the supermarket trolley, I don't think about how much it costs, just whether I want it or not.
View quotes by Stan Stevens
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