John Ashcroft Quotes
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.John Ashcroft
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
Wendy Kopp -
I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez -
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
Walter Gropius -
Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
Viktor Orban -
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali -
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov -
To be rude to someone is not my nature.
Farrah Fawcett -
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein -
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco -
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
Rahm Emanuel -
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
Adam Davidson
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
Victor LaValle -
People die because they find living too painful.
Malcolm Fraser -
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan -
The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do.
Nadine Gordimer -
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.
John Ashcroft