Quotes of: Benjamin-franklin Keyword

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Irwin Redlener

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Irwin Redlener

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

Naomi Wolf

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

Ed Markey

Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.

Tim Scott

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Hedi Slimane

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Hun Sen

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

Edward M. Lerner

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Jerry Costello

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

Zac Goldsmith

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Woodrow Wilson

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Alexis Carrel

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Patch Adams

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

Lighten Up

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

Elliott Abrams