The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they…

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short…

— Anonymous

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

— Joyce Meyer

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

— Anonymous

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight.…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

— Caroline Myss

Get a backbone, not a wishbone,

— Caroline Myss

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

— Clementine Paddleford

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

— Ronald Reagan

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

— Vikram Seth

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The…

— Duffy Daugherty

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were…

— Lisa Kleypas

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes…

— Malcolm X

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up…

— Bob Hope

I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in trouble two…

— Ken Moelis