Lugar Quotes & Sayings

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. — Richard Lugar

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. — Richard Lugar

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity. — Richard Lugar

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. — Richard Lugar

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. — Richard Lugar

Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of. — Dan Quayle

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year. — Richard Lugar

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it. — Susanne Katherina Langer

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity. — Richard Lugar

I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them. — Paula McLain

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States. — Richard Lugar

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. — Richard Lugar

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. — Richard Lugar

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. — Richard Lugar

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food. — Richard Lugar

You can save people's lives but you can't save them from life! — Ajay Kumar

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty. — Richard Lugar

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness. — Leon Morris

With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going. — Paul T. Scheuring

Even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone. — Hermann Hesse

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. — Richard Lugar

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much does the hotel room cost? Conversation also had a professional function. [ ... ] When she worked as a researcher [ ... ], she had never minded having a long conversation if it was to ferret out facts. On the other hand, she disliked personal discussions, which always led to snooping around in areas she considered private. — Stieg Larsson

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. — Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder. — Richard Lugar

And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end. — Nicholson Baker

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination. — Richard Lugar

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity. — Richard Lugar

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. — Richard Lugar

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had. — Richard Lugar

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. — Clint Eastwood

In the long run, our comfort zone becomes our uncomfortable zone. — Charles F. Glassman

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! — Craig Benzine

It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point — Mary Roach

They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science. — Josh Fox

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy. — Nomar Garciaparra