#peak

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #approval #children #continue #expect

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#carry #carter #fly #jimmy #jimmy carter

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#age #around #because #before #being

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christian #civilize #democratic #divine #english-speaking

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#banal #banality #before #carefully #danger

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. ↗

— Marie de France

#five #glibly #his #hundred #letter

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty