I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam o...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center,...
JOHN NEGROPONTE I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE [The] former regime elements ... seem to have very good operational secrecy, ... And thus far it's n...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s f...
JOHN NEGROPONTE There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier....
JOHN NEGROPONTE We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The organization's core elements still plot and make preparations for terrorist strikes against the ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's a very, very difficult issue,
JOHN NEGROPONTE They have provided some valuable intelligence information with respect to the war on terror.
JOHN NEGROPONTE These people are being held. And they're bad actors. And as long as this situation continues, this w...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's got a huge amount of ambiguity in it,
JOHN NEGROPONTE Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily ex...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We didn't see any red flags come up during the course of our inquiry.
JOHN NEGROPONTE On the basis of our inquiry we assessed that the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE On the basis of our inquiry we assess that the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World to...
JOHN NEGROPONTE I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of human...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We expect this strategy to guide the policies and plans in the various intelligence community agenci...
JOHN NEGROPONTE concern that the office be created consistent with the law that was passed last year.
JOHN NEGROPONTE I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view th...
JOHN NEGROPONTE This resolution helps pave the way for the increased security in Afghanistan upon which nearly every...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The lifting of sanctions marks a momentous event for the people of Iraq. After more than a decade of...
JOHN NEGROPONTE specific directions for terrorist attacks continue to be issued from terrorist groups based in Syria...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Resolution 1546 defines the key political tasks in which the United Nations shall play a leading and...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Our impression is that the council members have welcomed this resolution, and it enjoys strong suppo...
JOHN NEGROPONTE trying to get to consensus.
JOHN NEGROPONTE We advanced this resolution to assist them and those who are trying to help them in the region.
JOHN NEGROPONTE I'd heard enough. ... I didn't hear anything new and of course don't accept any of the kinds of alle...
JOHN NEGROPONTE No one has really slammed the door shut on our proposals, and it was on that basis that we came to t...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We continue to hope that this issue can be resolved peacefully, and we want to work within the frame...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We've got major challenges in Iraq. It's (an issue) that occupied me when I was up there as ambassad...
JOHN NEGROPONTE If the Security Council fails to act decisively in the event of further Iraqi violations this resolu...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It sounds like it's an interesting development. We'll have to wait and see what further develops on ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE The transitional arrangements that come into being will also allow the people of Iraq to benefit fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE In addition, we have contributed over $60 million to more than a dozen different U.N. agencies... as...
JOHN NEGROPONTE If I were to choose one single watchword of this strategy, it's 'integration,' and I think that the ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Certainly, we know where the key installations are. Are there others that we're not aware of at all?...
JOHN NEGROPONTE It's conceivable that they are exaggerating their progress, but I don't have any knowledge to confir...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Surely, at some point, it may prove desirable that they be brought to prosecution, to face justice. ...
JOHN NEGROPONTE hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own affairs.
JOHN NEGROPONTE Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is tha...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had pho...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE It bothers me when people spoil the market.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% ...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countr...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back a...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too comp...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly inclu...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do thi...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same br...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education busine...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundar...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without s...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE When we talk about an Internet of things, it's not just putting RFID tags on some dumb thing so we s...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE A colleague of mine said it made him think twice about kissing his wife goodbye in the morning,
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I am always asked in my travels through the developing world: 'If this is such a good idea, why isn'...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS