Philip Hammond Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
-
Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
-
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
-
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
-
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
-
Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
-
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
-
Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
-
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
-
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
-
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
-
I was definitely very much a country boy.
-
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
-
I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
-
Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
-
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
-
NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.
-
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.
-
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
-
If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
-
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
-
Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
