Backgrounds Quotes · Page 38

One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority…

— Ted Cruz

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to…

— Paul Goodman

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not…

— Carly Simon

[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come…

— Hilary Mantel

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

— Iris Murdoch

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from…

— Eric Bana

I would rather have a candidate that`s cohesive in bringing people together from different ethnic backgrounds but around the same policy than…

— Killer Mike

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very…

— Trey Gowdy

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to…

— Colleen Hanabusa

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically,…

— Eric Holder

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me…

— Michelle Obama

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

— Rob Paulsen

In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John…

— Ella Baker

Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact...…

— Richard M. Nixon

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background,…

— Kid Rock

Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new…

— John Shelby Spong

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely…

— Sara Zarr

We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that…

— Hari Nef

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

— Herbert Jefferson Jr

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession…

— Walt Whitman

Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its…

— Baruch Halpern

'Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The…

— Jenna Morasca

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

— David Chalmers

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing…

— Mary Catherine Bateson