The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
Morley Safer

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
Kenzaburo Oe

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
Theodor Herzl

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.
Hassanal Bolkiah

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Roy L. Smith

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
Antonio Tabucchi

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.
Johannes Stark

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
Bruce Dickinson

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener

The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any additional speculation.
Robert Luskin

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
David Baker

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
John Ashcroft

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
Eric Allin Cornell

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Indira Gandhi

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Nancy Pelosi