Famous Dukakis Quotes & Sayings

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation — Lowell L. Bennion

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. — Ernesto Sabato

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands. — Ramez Naam

Everyone sees that this cannot go on. Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break, said Pierre (as those wha examine the actions of any government have always said since governments began). — Leo Tolstoy

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human. — Steven D. Levitt

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. — L.M. Montgomery

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake. — Heinrich Heine

There is no uniform, global model for democracy. — Vladimir Putin

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy. — Ahmed Zewail

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be! — George W. Bush

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team. — Kevin Durant

I'm a pleaser, Melony. I'm a woo-er. I'm a romantic who knows how to fuck you senseless. — Meghan Quinn