Harry S Truman Quotes

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

Harry S Truman

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Government
  • Growth

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Creativity
  • Productivity

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Age
  • Difference
  • Brand

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Time
  • May
  • War

• I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.

  

  Karen Allen
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Person
  • Dog
  • Nicer

• It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • President
  • Branches

• Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hurt

• Fires have broken out everywhere, ... We just have to watch them. Our trucks can't reach them.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • Broken
  • Watch
  • Fires

• A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Marriage
  • Something

• Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Careers
  • Politician

• Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Goal

• Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Past
  • Facts
  • Drug

• The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • President