Eric Holder Quotes

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

Eric Holder

• Travel
• Progress
• Ideals
• Attorney
• African-American
• President of the United States

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• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Trust
  • Progress
  • Goals

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Peace
  • Progress
  • Islam

• As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Live
  • Travel
  • Find

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • May
  • Job

• ...because city honours are not village honours. Like certain wines, they do not travel; carry them back to the village and you find they are dust in your hands.

  

  Laurie Lee
  • City
  • Travel

• In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Progress

• The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Positive

• My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

  

  David Gross
  • True
  • History
  • Science

• Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Travel

• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Progress

• Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • High
  • Travel

• I was studying tourism at college and wanted to travel the world as a tour guide - that was my dream! But actually, sometimes modeling feels quite similar, because I travel so much - probably even more than tour guiding.

  

  Liu Wen
  • World
  • Dream
  • College

• One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Value
  • Driving

• The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Travel
  • Progress
  • Ideals