And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need… — Pascal Lamy Copy Share Image
The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles,… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and… — Tim Lee Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image