- Air travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
- As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.
- I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
- In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important – and often more profitable – than to be civil or creative or truly original.
- Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
- No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
- The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
- We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
- You can’t be value free when it comes to marriage
- [It’s] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
- A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
- American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
- Democrats understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
- For NASA, space is still a high priority.
- I am not part of the problem. I am a Democrat.
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
- I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
- If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far. Quickly.
- Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
- Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, & water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
- One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, & that one word is ‘to be prepared’.
- People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
political will is a renewable resource. - Public speaking is very easy.
- Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
- The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Al Gore may or may not make.
- The future will be better tomorrow.
- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
- The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.
- The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: “We the people.” It wasn’t, “We the conglomerates.” It wasn’t, “We the corporations.” It was, “We the people.
- The will to act is a renewable resource.
- Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
- We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
- We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
- We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
- We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
- Welcome to President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and my fellow astronauts.
- When I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct & simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
- When you have neither, holler.
- When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts.
- When you have the law on your side, argue the law.