Sam Brownback Quotes

The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

Sam Brownback

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • She
  • True

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Hurt

• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Silly

• The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Speak
  • Internet

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Always
  • Labels

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Walk
  • Lead

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • War
  • Thought

• I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Look

• The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Place
  • Internet
  • Reach

• I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Lying

• Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • World
  • Job

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great