Eliot Engel Quotes

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I try to do my best.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Best
  • Try

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Society
  • Way
  • Better

• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Unity

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Doors

• The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Fiction

• So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Breakfast
  • Bridge

• When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

  

  John Knoll
  • Model

• The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Home
  • Simple

• I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • Trying
  • Freedom