Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains num...
ROBERT KAGAN I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalrie...
ROBERT KAGAN I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can av...
ROBERT KAGAN When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioni...
ROBERT KAGAN In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it e...
ROBERT KAGAN Were Congress somehow to reject the Administration's deal in some effort to maintain a consistent pr...
ROBERT KAGAN The international perception of the U.S. leadership is hobbled, ... The assumption is, the president...
ROBERT KAGAN How long that will last is another question because if they become more and more secure, they may, i...
ROBERT KAGAN Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest ...
ROBERT KAGAN I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid ...
ROBERT KAGAN Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, wi...
ROBERT KAGAN Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, h...
ROBERT KAGAN Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggre...
ROBERT KAGAN there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
JANET KAGAN You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then ...
JANET KAGAN Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.
JANET KAGAN In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Cong...
ELENA KAGAN I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsb...
ELENA KAGAN History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a stor...
DONALD KAGAN I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard.....
ELENA KAGAN I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
ELENA KAGAN I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority ov...
ELENA KAGAN I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our ...
ELENA KAGAN Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations...
DARYN KAGAN If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measur...
ELENA KAGAN The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps...
ELENA KAGAN What's radically impressive about Southwestern Bell's offering is that their highest rate is just ni...
JEFF KAGAN If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?
DARYN KAGAN The company has taken extraordinary measures to minimize the effect of the virus on our guests, whic...
DARYN KAGAN failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex coupl...
DARYN KAGAN sounds like you giving this speech
DARYN KAGAN When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation...
ELENA KAGAN My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site...
DARYN KAGAN To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As yo...
ELENA KAGAN Now customers realize there are a lot of competitors. BlackBerry is not the only cat in the bag anym...
JEFF KAGAN Sprint has been moving more into the wholesale side of the wireless market and the agreements mean a...
JEFF KAGAN It's just going to start an avalanche of mergers in this sector. It's been waiting too long. The car...
JEFF KAGAN Never before or since, ... has the world been brought so close to nuclear war.
DONALD KAGAN It's the next natural wave of industry consolidation.
JEFF KAGAN This deal makes sense for Level 3. It helps Level 3 get further into the local competitive market as...
JEFF KAGAN The entire wireless industry is very healthy, and growing very rapidly at this point.
JEFF KAGAN Points for effort, if not using your smarts so much, Brian.
DARYN KAGAN So, for all the conspiracy theories out there, ... ... that's not what this is about. It's a compute...
DARYN KAGAN War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided...
DONALD KAGAN All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an...
DONALD KAGAN There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's re...
DARYN KAGAN There's an explosion of wireless services that are available and a screaming need for spectrum. This...
JEFF KAGAN This could be devastating to the users who are about to be turned off, but they should have switched...
JEFF KAGAN What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
ELENA KAGAN I have said before how much I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy. I belie...
ELENA KAGAN He's smart and he has an understanding of the issues. People feel he has earned it and the president...
ELENA KAGAN Students needed to know very quickly. We didn't want a whole lot of students coming in late for clas...
ELENA KAGAN It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor genera...
ELENA KAGAN Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impos...
DARYN KAGAN I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the ...
DARYN KAGAN And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyon...
ELENA KAGAN It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think t...
ELENA KAGAN Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.
DARYN KAGAN I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world...
DARYN KAGAN Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
DARYN KAGAN Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.
DARYN KAGAN If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out t...
DARYN KAGAN It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creati...
DARYN KAGAN SBC is facing pressure from at least two areas -- competition and the economy. Contrary to what many...
JEFFREY KAGAN On the one hand, AT&T says this is going to be a very powerful competitor. On the other hand, they s...
JEFFREY KAGAN There will be bugs with the Baby Bells up front. I expect them to work out the bugs eventually.
JEFFREY KAGAN As long as customers get the service, they don't care how it works. It's like a Ford or a Chevy, wha...
JEFFREY KAGAN Will it be flawless? No. Will there be some customers that slip through the cracks? Yes. But for the...
JEFFREY KAGAN This is something that will not affect the stock price ... the stock and other Baby Bells are all go...
JEFFREY KAGAN This the best shot we have seen in 3-1/2 years.
JEFFREY KAGAN It is probably prudent to wait and delay. At some point this year the market will turn around.
JEFFREY KAGAN I think an acquisition of a satellite TV provider would fit an immediate need, and they would contin...
JEFFREY KAGAN This could be a growth opportunity for AT&T with a quicker payoff.
JEFFREY KAGAN Of all the names in telecom, only one has the history of AT&T. AT&T was the name of the phone compan...
JEFF KAGAN Is SBC buying at the right price? That's the key. It could cost less to do a deal in a year.
JEFF KAGAN The directories business is not going away. But everything telecom related is in a state of flux.
JEFF KAGAN If the FCC takes a hands-off approach, it'll be like flipping a switch, and the lights will all come...
JEFF KAGAN Nextel is going to need a couple of buffers, and the lack of interoperability is one. If they didn't...
JEFF KAGAN Wireless is too dependent on the external power supply. And since wireless phones are becoming the m...
JEFF KAGAN The problem with telecom is not only that it's going through the same economic issues as the rest of...
JEFF KAGAN Hopefully WorldCom will not use its debt-free status to start a price war.
JEFF KAGAN There will be quite a bit of choice when it comes to watching television and unlike yesterday where ...
JEFF KAGAN The television industry is reinventing itself, the same way the telephone industry is reinventing it...
JEFF KAGAN so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad t...
JANET KAGAN who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.

this is the oldest m...
MARTY MCCONNELL EMILY KAGAN TRENCHARD 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