Leon Panetta Quotes

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

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• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Like
  • Artist

• It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Important
  • Failure
  • Achieve

• Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Business
  • Model
  • Copyright

• I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Country
  • Listen

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Family
  • Her
  • Respectable

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Beauty

• La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Words
  • Angry

• And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Science
  • Reality

• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  

  James Callaghan
  • Political
  • Law

• I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Demonstration
  • Pub

• When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • People
  • Nature
  • Members

• It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.

  

  Emma Willard
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Artist

• Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Children
  • Future
  • Effort

• Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

  

  Leon Panetta