Quotes of: Lenin Keyword

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob McKenna

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

Susan Cain

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

Pat Brown

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

Preet Bharara

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

Peter Blair Henry

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Paul Samuelson

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Robert H. Jackson

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

Steven Levitt

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Sonia Sotomayor

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

I believe in giving back very strongly.

Sanford I. Weill

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Thomas E. Donilon

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

Toshihiko Fukui

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Terry McAuliffe