“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 112 of 1106
“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.”
“a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.”
“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.”
“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”
“If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?”
“The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court”
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.”
“The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.”
“The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.”
“The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.”
“Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.”
“Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.”
“It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.”
“it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave.”
“Wrong must not win by technicalities.”
“It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.”
“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.”
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
“I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.”