David Quotes

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

I love my jazz hands!

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

The people really are what make New York City great.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'