Former Quotes

965 Former quotes by 762 unique authors

I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people… — Aaron Schock
We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the… — Benigno Aquino III
Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project… — Shari Arison
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. — Rebecca MacKinnon
In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations:… — Mark Shand
At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against… — Soledad O'Brien
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to… — Barton Gellman
Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain… — Joe Taslim
Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10… — Joe Taslim
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,… — J. G. Ballard
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern… — John Prendergast
Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist… — Luke Harding
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. — Jose Rizal
No former player has owned a team in baseball. — Derek Jeter
In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a… — August Wilson
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the… — David Blunkett
In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm… — Loretta Lynch
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore. — Nancy Pelosi
An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and… — Mitt Romney
Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm… — Buzz Aldrin
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they… — Ronnie Musgrove
If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who… — Greg Poehler
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor,… — Karen DeCrow
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people… — Scott Weiss

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