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"Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked."
"You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed."
"On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally."
"You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years."
"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."
"That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future."
"If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things."
"This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now."
"If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by Congressman Ryan, your running mate, is that we would give a voucher to seniors and they could go out in the private marketplace and buy their own health insurance."
"Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up."
"There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President."
"All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American."
"Washington is a place where good ideas go to die."
"With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving."
"Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away."
"[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth."
"[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally."
"I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver."
"The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done."
"I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom."
