Harold Ford, Jr. Quote

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrappin...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Conventio...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say ...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of ...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network ...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $5...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 accoun...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
HAROLD FORD, JR.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-st...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
HAROLD FORD, JR.

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy i...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the mi...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they s...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and busi...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
HAROLD FORD, JR.

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think peopl...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal esta...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is alw...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big propone...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those ...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and d...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
HAROLD FORD, JR.

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we o...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - p...
HAROLD FORD, JR.

At a minimum his conduct has been curious. At the worst, it's been very, very suspicious. As a lawye...
HAROLD FORD

I'm confident the voters will judge me for who I am and what I believe,
HAROLD FORD

You're actually in better shape than an awful lot of school districts in your area.
HAROLD FORD

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,
HAROLD FORD

reaffirmed our commitment to diversity and progress.
HAROLD FORD

Gary may have had nothing to do with this, I don't know, ... But my concern and my criticism is leve...
HAROLD FORD

Rush Limbaugh's remarks were insensitive and stupid, ... They were far beneath the standard that ESP...
HAROLD FORD

This district has more grants than districts three times its size,
HAROLD FORD

At a minimum his conduct has been curious. At the worst, it's been very, very suspicious.
HAROLD FORD

I was deeply disappointed, ... I know my leader was and others throughout our party are, and we'll h...
HAROLD FORD

Now is not the time to close bases, ... With almost 140,000 American troops serving in Iraq, 17,000 ...
HAROLD FORD

It's enough to make us worry. But it's not like Wrigley Field.
HAROLD FORD

There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and here...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has star...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. Th...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the cons...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physi...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildr...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 20...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doin...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits w...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality i...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of t...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they a...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I've never seen anybody quite like Secretary Bolton. I don't have a second, third or fourth in terms...
CARL W. FORD JR

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base,...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I left that meeting with the perception that I had been asked for the first time to fire an intellig...
CARL W. FORD JR

I have no patience for wasting time.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going t...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADOX FORD

Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...
FORD MADOX FORD

I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to regi...
FORD MADOX FORD

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in exist...
FORD MADOX FORD

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t...
FORD MADOX FORD

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...
FORD MADOX FORD

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
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The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world.
JR

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR

With humour, there is life.
JR

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR

What we see changes who we are.
JR

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR

There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR

At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR

A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and...
HARRISON FORD

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones...
HARRISON FORD

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat...
HARRISON FORD

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was...
HARRISON FORD

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see t...
HARRISON FORD

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
HARRISON FORD

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
HARRISON FORD

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ...
HARRISON FORD

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
HARRISON FORD

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislo...
HARRISON FORD

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our pr...
HARRISON FORD

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
HARRISON FORD

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma...
HARRISON FORD

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescu...
HARRISON FORD

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victim...
DEBBIE FORD

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Purita...
TOM FORD

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD

I started to dance and kind of entertained the crowd when I wasn't on the job, and the people seemed...
AL FORD

I've been dancing all my life. I even won a contest at the Apollo Theatre in 1968.
AL FORD

They've been putting it in for four years. They all are special girls who respect the program ..I'm ...
AL FORD

They're in my league, I've seen them for four years, and they're special kids. You don't wake up one...
AL FORD

I can understand if he was a bit agitated. But at the same time we don't have an aggressive audience...
AL FORD

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we...
AL FORD

She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t...
AL FORD

It?s amazing. I knew she could shoot the ball. Sometimes I think it?s a confidence level for her and...
AL FORD

We played hard. We gave it our best shot. We were hoping to come in here and steal one like (Eastern...
AL FORD

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember wh...
HARRISON FORD

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel t...
DEBBIE FORD

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan...
TOM FORD

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
FORD FRICK

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
FORD FRICK

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
FORD FRICK

Keep your eye on the ball.
FORD FRICK

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
FORD FRICK

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
FORD FRICK

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as we...
FORD FRICK

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
FORD FRICK

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
FORD FRICK

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD

There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need t...
DEBBIE FORD

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can ...
BETTY FORD

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD

Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.
JOHN FORD

Diamonds cut diamonds.
JOHN FORD

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own bu...
HENRY FORD

You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when yo...
DEBBIE FORD

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
FORD MADDOX

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from ...
GLENN FORD

I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact,...
HARRISON FORD

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think...
HARRISON FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
LEIGHTON FORD

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough...
HENRY FORD

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire...
HENRY FORD

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes i...
JAMIE FORD

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
COREY FORD

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the bettermen...
HENRY FORD

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.
HENRY FORD

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. ...
HENRY FORD

Don't find fault, find a remedy.
HENRY FORD

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
HENRY FORD

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, inte...
HENRY FORD

Never complain. Never explain.
HENRY FORD

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
HENRY FORD

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
HENRY FORD

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o...
HARRISON FORD

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
HENRY FORD

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, t...
HENRY FORD

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
HENRY FORD

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
HENRY FORD

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
HENRY FORD

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

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