Quotes of: Benjamin-franklin Keyword

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

Floyd Abrams

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

Franklin Knight Lane

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

Greg Abbott

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Clarence Darrow

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

Clarence Thomas

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clarence Thomas

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

Clarence Thomas

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Imran Khan

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

Joseph P. Bradley

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

Jeffrey Chiesa

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Johnnie Cochran

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Deval Patrick

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

Dick Thornburgh

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Elliott Abrams

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

Elliott Abrams

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Elliott Abrams

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.

Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.

Elliott Abrams

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Edwards