Would-be Quotes

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.