Affairs Quotes

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

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.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.