Among Quotes

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.