J. William Fulbright Quotes
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
-
My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
-
I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
-
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
-
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
-
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
-
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
-
The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
-
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
-
Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
-
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
-
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
-
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
-
When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
-
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
-
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
-
I don't trust a lot of journalists.
-
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
-
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
-
What is more immoral than war?
-
In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.
-
This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.
-
I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
-
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
