Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

Veerappa Moily

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

Jill Lepore

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Martin Van Creveld

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martin Van Creveld

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

Michael Newdow

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

Pam Bondi

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

Pat Brown

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

Pat Brown

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

Richard Ben-Veniste

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Robert Bork

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Rose Bird

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Robert Caro

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

Robert Caro

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

Robert Dallek

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Robert Dallek

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Robert Darnton