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GEORGE ROBERT STEPHANOPOLOUS In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S...
GEORGE TAKEI Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a perso...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
WAYLON JENNINGS Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
WAYLON JENNINGS Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging a...
ANGELA BRALY In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the par...
DAVID PIETRUSZA The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run...
HILLARY CLINTON Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
PAULO COELHO In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put th...
MEG CABOT A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a presid...
DICK CHENEY Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have...
ROY T. BENNETT Take risks that can be understood and managed well.
STEVEN REDHEAD In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
GEORGE CARLIN ...if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and ge...
E.J. DIONNE JR. As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Tuesday is a huge one and if we can take care of business, it looks like a time where anybody can be...
BUD OGDEN Be strong and courageous to take risks.
Without trying and taking risks, you will miss great op...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA You have to take risks to get where you want to be in life.
PHOENIX MILLER Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. Th...
ANDY GREENE I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more ...
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LEN LICHTENFELD Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he s...
JACK FROST It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER We think the settlement process is a better way to go. You can get creative. You can take risks.
DAVE KVAMME We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of backwardness, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be g...
HENRY KISSINGER If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
RICHARD M. NIXON As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And whil...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
PAT PAULSEN There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for...
WALE I didn't feel it was in the best interest of anybody for me to be president.
HOLLY GLICK That's one of those games that's great to be in. If you can take something from a loss you can take ...
DAMON STOUDAMIRE It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
BARRY GOLDWATER The only way you can do that decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending is w...
JOHN B. ANDERSON Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy...
RICHARD TRUMKA Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.
LINCOLN CHAFEE You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehi...
MARILYN MANSON Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be presi...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM One of the reasons you have something like this is to take some risks. Why do you have a multilatera...
CLAY LOWERY To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
DAN SHECHTMAN There's good news about being in third place. We can try stuff. We can take risks.
LES MOONVES Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United State...
JOE BIDEN The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
KURT VONNEGUT You can go from seeking to seeker when you stop bouncing. Set a plan for change and take the risks y...
ANDREA GOEGLEIN No One In the World Care For Others!!!!!!! Thats the real truth of the Life!!!
VIPIN ONGALATHE I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fu...
ANGELINA JOLIE I think anybody in America needs to do whatever they can. A lot of people lost everything they own.
ANDY RICE If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new
BLAKE LEWIS One of the very best reasons I can think of to vote for me as president is to have Laura Bush as fir...
GEORGE W. BUSH A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Hey, if it's only about winning, count me out. It's about the approach you take, not just in footbal...
DAN HAWKINS I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writ...
JERRY POURNELLE Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks ...
BEN AFFLECK I have met every president since President Kennedy. And I think Barack Obama must be listed as one o...
JOHN LEWIS When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
DOUGRAY SCOTT When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America, the change will be... huge.
MIKE PENCE Take risks. Whoever risk, shall know how far they can reach.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
DAMIAN WOETZEL It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and a...
CASPAR WEINBERGER Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appoi...
DICK MORRIS Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
POPE JOHN XXIII The president calls on the Congress to take action in the Senate today, to take action now so that t...
ARI FLEISCHER I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an Ameri...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly...
TRACY CHAPMAN In the future, we believe the vice president can take over the daily operations of the government.
AKBAR TANDJUNG With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be...
KESHAVAN NAIR Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured o...
ROY T. BENNETT Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not b...
ANGELINA JOLIE Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.
ROY BENNETT It wasn't good. It's obviously one of the risks you take playing in these games. For him to have an ...
BRIAN GOORJIAN I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
YITZHAK SHAMIR Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?
SEAN HANNITY Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' t...
MONICA CROWLEY I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
AL GORE
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a spee...
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.