Winfield Scott Quotes

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Winfield Scott

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• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
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• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Life
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  • Hatred

• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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  • Free

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
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  • Power

• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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• Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
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• I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • See
  • Crisis

• I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

  

  Laura Moser
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• Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

  

  Karan Johar
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• England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Country
  • Home
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• The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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  • United States
  • Competitors

• I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Kids
  • Giving
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• At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Town
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  • Beatnik

• The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Light
  • Production
  • Rational

• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  

  Winfield Scott
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  • Government