American Jewish Committee Quotes & Sayings

quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life. — Kent Haruf

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere. — Peter Ackroyd

Dead ain't gone, and gone ain't dead. — Steven E. Wedel

I was asked: "Why did you stop writing?" I would not know any more than I would know why I started writing. Try not to be as obtuse as you are. — William S. Burroughs

Uniforms standardize the way we recognize military members who outrank us, so we can avoid ass chewings for failure to refer to someone as sergeant or sir or your majesty, or for failure to salute them. — Stan Goff

Getting fired is hard. — Alice Barrett

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time. — William J. Clinton

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. — Ray Bradbury

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! — Dr. Seuss

In January 1924, as a sweeping immigration measure awaited presidential signature, American Jewish Committee leader Louis Marshall asked to meet with President Calvin Coolidge to urge a veto. Coolidge refused to see him. The president's views were summed up in an article he had written a few years earlier in Good Housekeeping magazine, titled "Whose Country Is This?" "[B]iological laws show us that Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races," Coolidge wrote. — J.J. Goldberg

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. — Jean Rostand

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit. — Elle King

Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions. — Steven Magee

The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue. — Klaus Kinkel

And there she went, spoiling a moment. As usual. — Harlem Dae

If an opportunity does not knock why not build a door? — Gloria D. Gonsalves