David Brock Quotes

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

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• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Research
  • Point

• It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Impact

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Influence
  • Skill

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Reason

• I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • God
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Law
  • College
  • Technology

• It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • You
  • Fear
  • Difficult

• The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Family
  • Lost

• Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

  

  David Brock
  • Power
  • Trump