Frankly Quotes

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Trust, Future, Past

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Leader

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Sense, Another

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Another, Means

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter

Time, Quite, Racial

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
Jim Carrey

Love, Greatest, Here

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'
Donald Trump

Love, Great, Win

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Old, Keep

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Give, Value, Full

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

Mean, Put, Sometimes

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

Time, Children, Kids

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
Doug Coupland

Start, Weird, Count

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
Newt Gingrich

Career, Talk, Actually

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
George C. Marshall

Best, Down, Road

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart

Death, Done, Him

Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle Obama

Saying, Sometimes, Keep

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Benjamin Carson

Political, Understand, Quite

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
Madeleine Albright

Woman, Mean, Understand

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
Newt Gingrich

End, Deep, Racism

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
Barbara Bush

Time, Boring, Worry

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
Freddie Mercury

Care, Others, Interviews

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
Paul Ryan

Government, Hard, Enough

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle

Children, Quite, Teach

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
Jenny McCarthy

Nature, Experience, Care

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Jack Nicholson

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
Pat Robertson

Health, Best, Parents

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
Emma Thompson

Life, Knowledge, Done

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron

Great, Sex, Happen

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
David Cameron

Society, Democracy, Trying

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