Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
E. Joseph Cossman
Rose Kennedy
Pope Paul VI
Honore de Balzac
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
George Chapman
All authors
Today's birthdays
1873 - Ellen Glasgow
1707 - Henry Fielding
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov
1870 - Vladimir Lenin
1724 - Immanuel Kant
1937 - Jack Nicholson
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Clergyman
Psychologist
Inventor
Saint
Architect
Philosopher
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
National Quotes
National Quotes
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken
Political Campaign
Best
Better
Political
National
Circus
Thrown
Mass
Couple
Heard
Campaign
Than
Baptism
Ever
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
Kofi Annan
Youth
National
Few
Think
Drawing
About
Governments
Up
Very
Unemployment
Unfortunately
Plans
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford
Environmental
Important
National
Think
Defense
Otherwise
Our
Resources
Security
Abroad
Put
Environment
Category
National Security
Just
Should
Defend
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke
Death
Character
History
Election
National
Else
Our
Worried
Presidents
Out
Impeached
Fails
Another
Five
Office
When All Else Fails
Hold
Them
Shot
Assassinate
Brief
Four
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
Donald Trump
Pride
Space
Tomorrow
Will
Free
Mysteries
National
Birth
Harness
Our
Earth
Unlock
Sights
Miseries
Lift
Divisions
New
Heal
Industries
Ready
Souls
Stir
Disease
Energies
Stand
Millennium
Technologies
In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.
Arianna Huffington
Nature
Culture
Collective
Conspiracy
Become
National
Human Nature
Down
Every
Our
Viruses
System
Weakened
Run
Immune
More
Compromised
Part
Demagoguery
Because
Becomes
Itself
Susceptible
Human
Burnout
Fueled
Theories
Resilience
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War
Future
National
Past
Deficits
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Over
Caused
Were
Discovered
Forget
Payments
Wars
Present
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
Joseph Pulitzer
Democracy
Matter
National
State
Way
One-Way
About
Only
Only One Way
Individual
Feet
Conduct
Get
Going
Informed
Public
Social
Keeping
Municipal
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Great
Become
National
Ability
Great Nations
Scenery
Remain
Vastly
Had
Simply
Individuals
Invisible
Powerful
Operating
Because
Effectively
Ambitious
Behind
Nations
Fronts
While
Who
I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.
Sarah McBride
Conversation
Respect
Rights
Dignity
Hurt
People
National
Transgender
Make
Sure
Around
Understand
Real
Discriminated
Mocked
Real People
Behind
Just
Want
Against
Who
Treated
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
Smedley Butler
National
Collect
City
Haiti
Safe
Make
Cuba
Boy
Revenues
Mexico
American
Bank
Decent
Oil
Place
Interests
Helped
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
Colin Powell
National
Trump
Disgrace
International
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck
National
Clothes
Live
Society
Wear
Through
Never
Leaf
Without
Geographic
How
Traditional
National Geographic
Where
Realizing
Lucky
Copy
In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Jim Mattis
Service
Leadership
Home
You
Trust
Age
Brilliant
Care
National
Harmony
Battlefield
Tactically
Obsolete
Because
How
Go
Go Home
Lines
dont Care
Cannot
Vicious
Create
Across
Your
Coalition
Even
Based
Need
Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John McCain
Political
Matter
National
Differences
Convictions
Our
Remarkably
Sharply
How
Narrow
Debated
Durable
Quite
Really
Comparison
Founding
Consensus
I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.
Tammy Duckworth
Politics
Time
Together
Experience
World
Will
Made
Sacrifice
Nation
National
Sense
Community
Unity
Rekindle
Others
Our
Our Community
Focused
Seem
Strongest
More
Shared
Know
Than
Personal
Personal Experience
National Unity
Apart
Us
Your
Engaging
Help
Helping
Foster
Helps
Tearing
Bringing
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
National
Heritage
Simply
Name
Covers
Reform
Process
Theft
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Alexander Hamilton
Love
Time
Director
Liberty
Safety
Will
National
Way
Danger
Give
Ardent
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Conduct
Dictates
After
Even
External
I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.
Allen West
Will
National
Tolerance
Strategy
Think
Suicide
Our
Muslim
Security
Brotherhood
One-Way
One-Way Street
Allow
Lead
Understand
Becomes
Cultural
National Security
Influencing
Should
Groups
Street
Associated
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
Future
Government
Will
Building
National
Society
Local
Local Government
Sector
Cities
Civil
Civil Society
Open
Dialogue
Private
Private Sector
Branches
Sustainable
Regional
Stakeholders
Poor
Engagement
Including
Among
Marginalized
Need
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver
Great
Self-Respect
Injustice
People
Safety
Honor
Nation
National
Submission
Beneath
Follows
Great Nation
Wrong
Calamity
Invite
Equals
Loss
Greatness
Which
Defended
Consequent
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
Achievement
Progress
Will
National
Worldly
We Cannot
Neither
Find
Spirit
Economic
Purpose
Mere
Goods
Continuation
Nor
Personal
Endless
Cannot
Personal Satisfaction
Average
Product
Gross
Measure
Satisfaction
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
Sam Harris
You
Science
Political
National
Thinking
Way
Circumstance
About
Boundaries
Most
Cultural
Versus
Canadian
American
Durable
Human
Transcends
Japanese
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
National
Resource
Our
Minds
Classrooms
Crowded
Greatest
Tragic
Children
Waste
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy
Vote
Fight
Election
Will
Citizen
Ocean
National
Cross
America
Street
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck
Me
Gossip
National
Our
Say
Some
Pastime
National Pastime
Baseball
Load more quotes
No more national quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Always
Am
Any