John Quotes

We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

Hate is just a form of criticism. You can never truly grow as a person until you’ve taken everything the world can throw at you. Sometimes you just have to let it hit you and move on

Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidently done something brilliant in my life.

I don't really think of Valentines Day as much of a holiday, you should show love for people you care about everyday.

I wish the fire burned my leg hair off

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

I'm very rarely beyond words, and I am right now.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.

Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.

I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.