Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we`re ha...
Senator John Kerry
Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good ...
Dr. Carl Sagan
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky
(after filming The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)) I was hopelessly at sea. I was extremely unhappy most of the time. I think I probably felt I`d made a fundamental error in agreeing to do that movie even though it was the part and the film that eve...
Daniel Day-Lewis
It`s a really obvious thing to say, but the more people know too much about who you really are, and it`s a fundamental thing, the more the mystery is taken away from the artist, and the harder it is for people to believe that person in a particular role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
My nightmare in life, my absolute fundamental, overwhelming, egregious nightmare, is Bill Gates` vision of the future, where there will be a video camera on every corner and every conversation will be recorded. Man, I`d rather put a pitchfork in my eyes t...
James Woods
Hollywood filmmaking has become more and more about power and control. It`s really not about telling stories. That`s just a pretense. But ironically, the fundamental difference between making films in Europe versus America is in how the screenplay is deal...
Wim Wenders
The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.
Stacy Keach
The fundamental of anything as a director is material, material, material - script, script, script - once you have the script everything else is straightforward.
Ridley Scott
The Red Curtain requires some basics. One is that the audience knows how it will end when it begins, it is fundamental that the story is extremely thin and extremely simple - that is a lot of labour. Then it is set in a heightened, created world. Then the...
Baz Luhrmann
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man`s attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Alymer Letterman
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It`s not good enough to think, `This is the best we can expect from this president`.
Barbara Boxer
While our earnings for the quarter and the six months were essentially flat year over year, we have seen positive developments since the first quarter and believe that our fundamental strengths, our exceptional asset base and our experienced management te...
Ann DiPierro
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
Harry A. Blackmun
What happens is that people will not pay attention to eating and drinking and be caught up in the emotions. You need food and water and fundamental caring and reaching out to these people.
Barbara Reinhold
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
Al Haynes
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
Andre Dreicon
We`ve had a number of successive quarters of good revenue growth, basically reflecting fundamental strengths in the market. The Internet is exploding. All of these Internet companies need to make money. They buy our software to do so,
John Little
We worked really hard and we worked a lot on the fundamentals of the game and making the basic plays. With special athletes, sometimes that fundamental play gets lost. I know when I first came up, the ball I had the most trouble with was the ball hit righ...
Barry Larkin
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
Andrew Jarvis
We have a representative democracy and the way senators vote on legislation or other matters is the most-fundamental act in representing people,
Anna Smashnova
We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled. .... The court`s conclusions in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion and that government has no compelling interest in protecting prenatal human life throughout p...
John Roberts
We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we`d have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
John Prescott
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Paul Tsongas