American Quote by David Ignatius Download Open image “The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.” — David Ignatius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Good Measure Tolerance
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering. — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.” — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image