I had a career. His name was Ike.
MAMIE EISENHOWER I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive...
MAMIE GUMMER L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another pla...
MAMIE GUMMER I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade&...
MAMIE GUMMER All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
MAMIE GUMMER I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consiste...
MAMIE GUMMER I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise....
MAMIE GUMMER I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as ...
MAMIE GUMMER My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? ...
MAMIE GUMMER I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good w...
MAMIE GUMMER My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
MAMIE GUMMER I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but...
MAMIE GUMMER I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, lik...
MAMIE GUMMER A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I...
MAMIE GUMMER I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to st...
MAMIE GUMMER I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I l...
MAMIE GUMMER My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbo...
MAMIE GUMMER I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', ...
MAMIE GUMMER All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been give...
MAMIE GUMMER I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there '...
MAMIE GUMMER I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork...
MAMIE GUMMER I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
MAMIE GUMMER If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with t...
MAMIE GUMMER Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the worl...
MAMIE GUMMER One parent of a diabetic eighth-grader told me she's thinking of transferring to a school system tha...
MAMIE COKER There's a lot of orientation that has to be done, because school nursing is a unique discipline.
MAMIE COKER They're on a clerical pay scale, and Hall County does not take into account past experience when det...
MAMIE COKER Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.
MAMIE SYPERT BURNS I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military sty...
DAVID EISENHOWER In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Me...
JOHN EISENHOWER Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Ca...
SUSAN EISENHOWER Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military prese...
JOHN EISENHOWER The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
DAVID EISENHOWER After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to conv...
SUSAN EISENHOWER A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER ...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
SUSAN EISENHOWER Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members h...
SUSAN EISENHOWER You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months lat...
JOHN EISENHOWER Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thor...
DWIGHT EISENHOWER Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name...
JOHN EISENHOWER Eisenhower Arrives for U.N.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a...
JOHN EISENHOWER We won't get it turned around in one year, or four years or maybe even 10,
DWIGHT EISENHOWER The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the ...
DWIGHT EISENHOWER I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards...
DAVID EISENHOWER Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its stru...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has hap...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so o...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulatio...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER 'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do i...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our gover...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the milit...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapprov...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someones been guilty of despicable actions, especial...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things w...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth th...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a func...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I am convinced that the French could not win the war because the internal political situation in Vie...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The emergence of this new world poses a vital issue: will outer space be preserved for peaceful use ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. Theyll have enough to eat, a bed and ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President any...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governm...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the futur...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the Americ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the ai...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we di...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their conf...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do i...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has hap...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and wo...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good f...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Only Americans can hurt America.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the d...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from hom...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulatio...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process w...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.
MILTON S. EISENHOWER Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER In London, my associates and I planned two great expeditions--that to invade the Mediterranean and l...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn fiel...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continu...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it....
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most criti...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problem...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of th...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today ...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of cons...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the m...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his follo...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and wom...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a t...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possi...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can fin...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the re...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, th...
JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. T...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't ca...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be cons...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purp...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to th...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things d...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someb...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER