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Had Quotes by Russell Baker
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,…
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House…
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie…
- A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting…
More Had Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong