John Quotes

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

I should have drunk more Champagne.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

You couldn't have human society without language.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

Language changes very fast.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I'll take care of them. And I've been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans.

Torture doesn't work.

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

How much damage will have been done before we act?

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

I think, again, neither of these candidates [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] is blowing me away. Actually, I would like both of them to get more policy specific.

Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.

So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.

There's too much money and too many nice guys around.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.