Krafcik Family Quotes & Sayings

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone. — Benigno Aquino III

Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord? — Adam Hochschild

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others. — Leo Tolstoy

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions. — Alexei Panshin

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character ... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort
to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.
is the very climate which secures the highest civilization. — Rutherford B. Hayes

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. — Carlos Alvarez

In the beginning, though, they had been friends. Or, at least, friends to the extent that men like Ove and Rune were capable of being friends."
p. 81 — Fredrik Backman

Progressives need a collection of proactive policies and communication techniques to get our own values out on our own terms. "War rooms" and "truth squads" must change frames, not reinforce conservative frames. — George Lakoff

If Hollywood was somewhere else, if Hollywood was in Lincoln, Nebraska, then obviously celebrities would be coming around a lot more to the Huskers games. — Ryan Kalil

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass. — Mitt Romney