Quotes of: Franklin-roosevelt Keyword

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

Anthony Weiner

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

Barney Frank

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

Barry Goldwater

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.

Elliott Abrams

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Elizabeth Edwards

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Ed Koch

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Earl Long

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

Ed Rendell

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

George Aiken

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

George Washington

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Henry Ward Beecher

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

Harvey Milk

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Jane Byrne

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Joe Biden

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

John Barrasso

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Jacques Delors

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

John Hoeven

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Jim Ramstad

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

Jim Ryun

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Jonathan Sacks