Quotes of: Benjamin-franklin Keyword

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

Jed S. Rakoff

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

Jed S. Rakoff

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

J. C. Watts

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Dan Abrams

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Dan Abrams

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

Jim Doyle

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Jennifer Granholm

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

Jennifer Granholm

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Jennifer Granholm

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

Jennifer Granholm

Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Jennifer Granholm

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

James P. Hoffa

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

John Marshall Harlan

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Jesse Jackson

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

Elliott Abrams

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

Greg Abbott

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

Harold H. Greene

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.