FastSaying

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.


Robert Zubrin

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire
JOSEPH SOBRAN There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the servi...
JILL LEPORE We can no longer rely on the federal government to be our principal source of information, ... The f...
WILLIAM BRATTON In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no yea...
JOHN SERGEANT WISE Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policie...
DONNA BRAZILE The conservation community and the federal government have been working hard to add lands to the nat...
JANE LAREAU There's no shortage of places where the federal government can tighten its belt to pay the cost of t...
JEFF FLAKE The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of th...
JOHN YOO Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't...
JAMES CARAFANO I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a...
ANN COULTER I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL What is the point of the army without weapons? ... Korean government should concentrate on arming it...
JOHN KIM The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So...
MARSHA BLACKBURN Could it be fate that brought me here?
Must it be my call?
CARMA If you want to survive in this world open your eyes and realise who and what is out there because if...
GARY F EVANS... Why is that [museum], No. 1, part of a highway bill and, No. 2, why is it part of a federal highway ...
DAVID BOAZ We need a single technological chain to implement national projects throughout the entire power vert...
DMITRY MEDVEDEV Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of governme...
CHRIS CHOCOLA There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
BILL NELSON (Petersen) is definitely our No. 1 defender. He's the only senior we have on defense, so he keeps th...
JAY HAUGLAND The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sover...
STEPHEN HARPER Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agenc...
PAUL GILLMOR The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
RONALD REAGAN But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
JAMES Q. WILSON This is a big blow to the national litigation strategy of the industry, ... This federal preemption ...
GEORGE CARLO In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
KARL LIEBKNECHT The modified provisions will provide for the protection of civil liberties of United States citizens...
ANDY FISHER There was no national secrets, no national security secrets. There were no defense secrets or confid...
STEVEN CHAYKIN Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing...
TED CRUZ We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Unfortunately, New Mexico depends significantly on federal dollars. We have four military bases here...
SUSANA MARTINEZ We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We have the tools to be the No.1-ranked defense in the league.
DARNELL DOCKETT I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility,...
OLYMPIA SNOWE As we move forward, we will evaluate possibilities for further collaboration as appropriate, ... Inv...
KAREN EVANS The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the ...
JASON CHAFFETZ There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as rel...
NOAM CHOMSKY To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run w...
JOE DARION There is no need for the federal government to tax citizens for the upkeep of land that it doesn't w...
ANDY POLK Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's thei...
RICHARD M. DALEY There's no question that the failure of the federal government to create an immigration system that ...
BENJAMIN JOHNSON This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put together, ... Truly, until we had the fede...
DAVID RICE The only purpose of government is to protect the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety o...
VITO FOSSELLA To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other,...
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY DOWNLOAD FREE 90541 We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his ...
KYLE IDLEMAN There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods en...
BOB BARR They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
GEORGE W. BUSH In a society where equal protection under the law is supposed to be the noble standard, there is no ...
NEAL BOORTZ This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put
together, ... Truly, until we had the...
DAVID RICE The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not d...
DARRELL ISSA The interests of national defense are preserved.
DENIS RANQUE National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
JOHN TAYLOR . . . the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.
BILL CLINTON Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective wa...
TODD PARK National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
KIM JONG IL I believe I was sent to Washington to fight for and defend our traditional values of smaller governm...
PHIL GINGREY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Their message is clear and straightforward: Get the federal government out of my bathroom,
JOE KNOLLENBERG Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world governme...
JAN TINBERGEN We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shr...
FRAN QUIGLEY I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriat...
CHRIS GIBSON The recent spate of gun violence in Toronto is something that is of concern to the federal governmen...
ALEX SWANN The American people still have the God-given right to defend the integrity of the territory, their s...
CHRIS SIMCOX The federal government is the only one that can provide immediate assistance.
JACK KEMP But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, ...
LARRY ELDER The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitu...
THOMAS WOODS He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.
BRIAN HAIG The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a co...
JAMES MADISON The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and conseque...
MITCH LANDRIEU A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism
JAMES Q. WILSON A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism
JAMES Q. WILSON The purpose of the National Guard never was to occupy another country.
BOB HANSON The purpose of Bonn was to re-establish permanent government institutions; the purpose of the compac...
BARNETT RUBIN Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.”
“Of course. The ...
KENNETH EADE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... How many of you want the federal government out of your paycheck?
NEAL BOORTZ If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling g...
JEFF GREENFIELD If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $5...
HAROLD FORD, JR. Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means...
DENNIS HASTERT I don't bow down to the federal government.
JOE ARPAIO The unilateral cease-fire proposed by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the government of Serbi...
JAVIER SOLANA

More Robert Zubrin

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not co...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome reg...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission we...
ROBERT ZUBRIN From 1859 to 1971, the U.S. oil industry grew virtually continuously, in the process serving mightil...
ROBERT ZUBRIN I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.
ROBERT ZUBRIN In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juri...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
ROBERT ZUBRIN The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.
ROBERT ZUBRIN It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Putting aside for the moment the question of whether human industrial CO2 emissions are having an ef...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes pove...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under th...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign hav...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The bedrock foundation of any rational immigration policy should be to benefit America rather than b...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC lim...
ROBERT ZUBRIN America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they s...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The issue comes down to this: The NSA metadata-collection program costs lots of money, and had funds...
ROBERT ZUBRIN If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans thr...
ROBERT ZUBRIN We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectiv...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or e...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crim...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Putin himself made his original fortune in the early 1990s, when he stole the funds that had been en...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial level...
ROBERT ZUBRIN As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing f...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources n...
ROBERT ZUBRIN People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
ROBERT ZUBRIN Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee in...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.
ROBERT ZUBRIN If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damagin...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating thr...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run o...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter...
ROBERT ZUBRIN No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them tha...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because...
ROBERT ZUBRIN There is nothing 'conservative' at all about Putin's cause. What he is offering is a syn...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Federal lawmakers need to change the rules so that vehicles converted to use new fuels can be put on...
ROBERT ZUBRIN When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase i...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such perso...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.
ROBERT ZUBRIN The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exch...
ROBERT ZUBRIN As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American s...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the w...
ROBERT ZUBRIN We need to drastically reduce the importance of the petroleum game itself by enacting flex-fuel-vehi...
ROBERT ZUBRIN In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other thin...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.
ROBERT ZUBRIN Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.
ROBERT ZUBRIN The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.
ROBERT ZUBRIN Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subver...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN The testing of life support systems will certainly be useful, ... But on the psychological side, the...
ROBERT ZUBRIN I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
ROBERT BYRD Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST