Donald Quotes

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

The way to do well is to do well.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.