R.D. Ronald Quotes

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Most of my dreams came true.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.

I am not a perfect man who has led a faultless life.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.

You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.

After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

God has been with me in my whole career.

I was put here to sing.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

Started using Google+ while I was living in space.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.