World Quotes

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

~ Joe Lieberman

The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

~ Jan C. Ting

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

~ Heather Wilson

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

~ Marcia Muller

Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.

~ Tony D'souza

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

~ William Gaddis

I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.

~ Joe Garagiola

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

~ Stewart Butterfield

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

~ Aretha Franklin

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

~ Jens Lekman

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.

~ Eugene Kennedy

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

~ Lindy Booth

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

~ Albert Camus

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

~ Mitt Romney

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

~ Kurt Cobain

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

~ Benazir Bhutto

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

~ Ryan Mcginley

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

~ Edward Snowden

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

~ Gary Johnson

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

~ Virginia Foxx

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

~ J. G. Ballard

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

~ Jill Mccorkle

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

~ Suzanne Collins

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

~ Mike Fitzpatrick

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

~ Diogenes

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

And freedom is what America means to the world.

~ Audie Murphy

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

~ Michael Phelps

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

~ Ted Cruz

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

~ Clarence Darrow

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

~ Kenneth Branagh

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

~ Dalai Lama

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

~ Elizabeth Dole

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

~ Julian Lincoln Simon

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

~ Salman Rushdie

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

~ John Shelby Spong