John Quotes

The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

You get what you tolerate!

What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.