John Quotes

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'

...genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot.

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.