John Dickerson Quotes

In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.

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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Mark

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Want
  • Negative

• When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Help
  • Best
  • Walk

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Love Is

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Trust
  • Leader
  • Open

• If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • You
  • Dollar
  • Rug

• In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Question
  • Best
  • Information

• I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Daily
  • Will
  • Computers

• We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and make sure when we get ready to fly to Mars that we are ready for what we're going to be exposed to.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Important
  • Space

• When 'Top Gun' came out, my sisters were like, 'Oh, my God, 'Top Gun!' Tom Cruise!' And I very confidently said, 'I'm going to marry him one day.' It wasn't like, 'How do I get to Tom Cruise?' It was just, 'I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun.'

  

  Katie Holmes
  • God
  • Why
  • Fun

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Immigration

• Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Growth
  • Immigration

• In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Immigration