Former Quotes

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.