Not Larry Sabato Quotes & Sayings

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels. — Jon Anderson

If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture. — Julianne Moore

Responsibility Training is rigged from the ground up so that the students win. — Fredric H. Jones

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. — Larry J. Sabato

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. — Larry J. Sabato

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. — John Malkovich

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car. — Dan Wheldon

Words matter . . . They really do. — Dorothea Benton Frank

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. — Martin Seligman

Every election is determined by the people who show up. — Larry Sabato

In Europe, on the other hand, Muslims find themselves in the opposite position: they are the minority, but they are offered the equality of citizens. The acceptance of reason-based knowledge by Muslims would for them smooth the way to secular democracy, human rights, peace among democratic nations and above all cultural-religious pluralism. If Muslim migrants embrace these values and the related rules, it matters little whether Muslims constitute a minority or a majority. Some leaders of the Islamic diaspora are not favorable to this embracing and make the accusation of Islamophobia every time the shari'a is rejected. This accusation becomes an instrument for deterring any call for change and for incriminating any rational criticism. A call for an embracing of cultural modernity as a platform of peace between civilizations becomes in this perception an expression of Islamophobia. — Bassam Tibi

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. — Larry Sabato

Politics is a good thing! — Larry J. Sabato

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. You must love what you do. — Richard Branson

Life maybe better after death, but don't count on it! — Robert B. Scott

The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt. — Larry Sabato

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. — Larry J. Sabato

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. — Larry J. Sabato

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges. — Larry J. Sabato

A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story [link] featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators. — Larry Sabato

Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people. — Larry J. Sabato

But I always loved songs with great lyrics. — Johnny Rivers

Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east. — Rebecca Solnit

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The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president ... It's about potholes and streetlights. — Larry Sabato

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance. — Larry J. Sabato

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. — Larry J. Sabato

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. — Larry J. Sabato