South Quotes · Page 47

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

— Calvin Jillson

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial…

— Bob Hawke

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta…

— Barack Obama

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we…

— Jesse Jackson

It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains,…

— Martha Gellhorn

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are…

— Nikola Tesla

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in…

— Lisa Marie Presley

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an…

— Laila Lalami

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and…

— Ben Fountain

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

— Roselee Goldberg

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting…

— Simphiwe Dana

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and…

— Isaac Hayes

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and…

— Otto von Bismarck

The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much…

— Newt Gingrich

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less…

— Ben E. King

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

— Peter Cook

It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and…

— Bob Hawke

The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our…

— F. W. de Klerk

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them…

— Rick Perry

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

— Ibrahim Rugova

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're…

— Hillary Clinton

We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also…

— George H. W. Bush

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang