Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

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

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

John F. Kennedy

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

John F. Kennedy

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

John F. Kennedy

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

John F. Kennedy

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F. Kennedy

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

John F. Kennedy

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

James Longstreet

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

John Updike

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Ken Livingstone

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Kate Millett

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

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

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