Nadler Quotes & Sayings

Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it. But our longing cannot be satisfied by embracing religious belief alone, no matter how emotional the embrace, for our longing is at root a hunger and thirst for the experience of interior realities. If, however, we are to forge a new relationship to the invisible world of spirit based on experience, what will distinguish it from the past is the modern necessity that it be based on our own autonomy as free individuals, able to think, decide, and act for ourselves. — Jeremy Nadler

Descartes was not interested in probabilities. He wanted absolute certainty. He had to be sure that indubitable knowledge, immune from skeptical attack, was possible. — Steven Nadler

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts. — Jerrold Nadler

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership. — Jerrold Nadler

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation. — Jerrold Nadler

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free. — Jerrold Nadler

The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name and dates, carved by machine. Just the inadequate and impersonal. Loving Father and Husband, like every other headstone there, whether it was true or not. This was the tasteful way to do it, she knew, even though it showed none of the true shape of the man — Stuart Nadler

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions. — Jerrold Nadler

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less. — Jerrold Nadler

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method. — Jerrold Nadler

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy. — Jerrold Nadler

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. — Jo Brand

I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice. — Brian Spellman

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. — Jerrold Nadler

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally. — Jerrold Nadler

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients. — Jerrold Nadler

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured. — Jerrold Nadler

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government. — Jerrold Nadler

There is the review intended to sell a book, - which comes out immediately after the appearance of the book, or sometimes before it; the review which gives reputation, but does not affect the sale, and which comes a little later; the review which snuffs a book out quietly; the review which is to raise or lower the author a single peg, or two pegs, as the case may be; the review which is suddenly to make an author, and the review which is to crush him. — Anthony Trollope

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. — Anne Rice

for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that. — Jerrold Nadler

True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have. — Robert Thurman

Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver. — Jacki Weaver

The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of the secular and dualistic impasse that we now face. — Jeremy Nadler