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- There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding…
- My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
- Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met?…
- I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden…
- Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a…
- I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able…
- On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I…
- The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having…
- The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I…
- I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again,…
- The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the…
- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we…
- Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
- There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is…
- This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about…
- Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal…
- I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and…
- The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.…
- I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And…
- I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than…
- Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.
- I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have…
- For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times…
- I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous…
- I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour