Michael Caine Quotes

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

Michael Caine

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Party
  • Health
  • Care

• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Moral

• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Health
  • Goal

• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Country
  • Think
  • Security

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Country
  • Best

• When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Country
  • She
  • Child

• I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • Love
  • Military

• While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Writing
  • American
  • Free

• Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Hope

• My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Peace
  • Party

• A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • May

• Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • High
  • Desire

• The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Mother
  • Pleasure
  • Sacrifice

• I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Fun
  • Small
  • Best

• Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • World
  • Kids
  • True

• We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Country
  • Party
  • Should