George Pataki Quotes
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
-
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
-
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
-
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
-
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
-
One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
-
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
-
Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
-
Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
-
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
-
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
-
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
-
I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
-
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
-
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
-
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
-
In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
-
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.
-
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
-
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
-
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
