“ When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. ”
- Paul Bremer- Copy
- 92
“ They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. ”
- Conrad Burns- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ”
- Elizabeth Dole- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Most of the media… is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future. ”
- Carly Fiorina- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I'm not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones. ”
- Martin Henderson- Copy
- 2K
“ Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development. ”
- Barry Humphries- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation. ”
- Matt Lucas- Copy
- 4K
“ A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote. ”
- James E. Rogers- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines. ”
- Robert Prechter Jr.- Copy
- 526
“ There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 851
“ A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.7K
“ As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 1.2K
“ This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end. ”
- James Reston- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this one. ”
- Alfred Molina- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Our recent legislative sessions had everything a good reporter could wish for: A willful governor, an angry and divided legislature, citizens who know how to use their car horns. Plenty of conflict. Plenty of personalities. As journalists, I'm sure it was a fascinating scene to watch unfold. ”
- Phil Bredesen- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control. ”
- Chris Cannon- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I do not expect that this year will be any easier than in the recent past, but I am confident that for the sake of this institution and the congressional budget process, we will do the most basic of our responsibilities this year-produce a budget. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
- 975
“ Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them. ”
- Frank Lautenberg- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The world has changed greatly since the end of the Cold War. It is imperative that our security priorities reflect these changes. We have witnessed recent cooperation between the United States and Russia that is unparalleled since World War II. However, September 11, 2001, proved without question that a new set of threats to this nation exist and that we must be prepared to deal with them. ”
- Allen Boyd- Copy
- 850
“ After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. ”
- Henry Bromel- Copy
- 3.7K
“ In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing… ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 2K
- 1
- 2