Hamilton Jordan Quotes

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 21, 1944 - May 20, 2008

Topics

GoodSonGreatPeopleWorldSpeak

I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.

Jenny Slate

GoodWomanStrongLovedDoingNever

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

Meghan Daum

LiveEasyCountryWholeSimpler

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Robert Nozick

JobWrinklesThinkYouNewTry

The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.

Jeffrey Tambor

FunnyPeopleMeNowPassGet

Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I've been a Rams fan since I was a kid.

Jeff Fisher

MeGameKidUpBeenFan

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

Steve Buscemi

FirstPartingRoleMovieHad

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes

PassionImageWantsPublicItself

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

WaterRiverYouPigParisOut

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Louie Gohmert

MoneyWaitingPeopleSocialismCare

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

Jose Serrano

GovernmentPeopleAmericanPolitical

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Chester Brown

PoliticsPeopleSocietyThinkRun

In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.

Peter Bergen

MindTeamDoorConfusedSpecial

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