- Nov 07, 2020
Said Quotes
Words spoken, decisions made.
This collection centers on moments of speaking up — reciting the rosary as part of a faith practice, warning lawmakers about foreign policy risk before Congress, and casting a vote that came with real consequences at the United Nations. For more on personal conviction, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really felt Dortmund was the right club for me. They spoke to me and said the right things I wanted to hear.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said and I've never hidden the fact that I want to play at the top, be England's No 1 and win trophies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a guy came up and said 'we got a polka band and we're going to play polkas next Saturday night' I'd play polkas.
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- Nov 07, 2020