Lee H. Hamilton quote: "I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully."

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challen...
LEE H. HAMILTON

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
LEE H. HAMILTON

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. ...
LEE H. HAMILTON

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with...
LEE H. HAMILTON

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from...
LEE H. HAMILTON

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy...
LEE H. HAMILTON

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
LEE H. HAMILTON

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwil...
LEE H. HAMILTON

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defen...
LEE H. HAMILTON

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of ...
LEE H. HAMILTON

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I ...
LEE H. HAMILTON

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
LEE H. HAMILTON

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
LEE H. HAMILTON

When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole b...
LEE HAMILTON

I do not believe the president should have ignored the statute.
LEE HAMILTON

That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,
LEE HAMILTON

I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, v...
LEE HAMILTON

Without question, women are leading the charge. Has sex appeal helped? Sure ... But we're going to m...
LEE HAMILTON

Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we'r...
LEE HAMILTON

We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very f...
LEE HAMILTON

Without good voter registration data, you simply cannot conduct a good election.
LEE HAMILTON

You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,
LEE HAMILTON

Look, we want a bill on the desk of the president as soon as possible.
LEE HAMILTON

I think there is a genuine split within the administration, within the Congress, within the country ...
LEE HAMILTON

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.
LEE HAMILTON

It is a glaring error four years after 9/11. Still exists. Not resolved. There are bills pending in ...
LEE HAMILTON

I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four yea...
LEE HAMILTON

We will leave that to historians.
LEE HAMILTON

It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that what...
LEE HAMILTON

You want to disavow labels and project centrist attitudes. Hoosiers pride themselves on being people...
LEE HAMILTON

That's common sense. We're not there yet.
LEE HAMILTON

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
LEE HAMILTON

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO

Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON

A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON

I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON

He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON

The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN

Some commoners are less common than others.
ALAN HAMILTON

In the last week,
ALAN HAMILTON

In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character a...
ALAN HAMILTON

There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON

Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.
ALAN HAMILTON

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON

Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON

It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON

" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I think the first duty of society is justice.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but...
BETHANY HAMILTON

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
GEORGE HAMILTON

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in lo...
ALLAN HAMILTON

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

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I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

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