Decades Quotes

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.