Essential Quotes

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.