Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Floyd Abrams

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

Floyd Abrams

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

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Frank Chodorov

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

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.

Gertrude Bell

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Christopher Dawson

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

the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Charles de Foucauld

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.

Carroll Quigley

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Cheryl Strayed

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

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

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

H. G. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

H. G. Wells

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Iris Chang