Politician Quotes

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

I really write for people.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

When you're leading, don't talk.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.