Geneva Overholser Quotes

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

Geneva Overholser

• Country
• Suffering
• Poverty
• Emotion
• Tough
• Citizenship

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• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Day

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Country
  • Name

• Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Name

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Country
  • History
  • Negative

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Country

• More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Country
  • Society
  • Science

• Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Different
  • Relationship

• Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Country
  • History
  • Together

• Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dance

• To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Time
  • Country

• There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Country
  • Internet
  • Users

• Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Night
  • Day
  • Single

• Muslims should live like brothers.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Live
  • Like
  • Brothers

• I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Love
  • End
  • Appetite

• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  

  Geneva Overholser
  • Country
  • Suffering
  • Poverty