John Quotes

I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

The facts are facts and records are records.

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

The world is on fire.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

The main idea is to win.

The main thing is to win.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.