Position Quotes

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Center is a very tough position to play.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.