Promises Quotes

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
Bill Keller

Care, Country, Rights

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
Chris Hughes

Change, Help, Working

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Brains, Address, Crowds

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski

Political, Sick, Old

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski

Political, Market, Bear

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.
Ron Lewis

Play, Between, Social

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett

Truth, Keep, Tell

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
Mark Kennedy

Education, Best, School

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.
Mark Kennedy

Focus, Washington, Keeping

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook

Life, Time, Respect

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn

Kindness, Away, Died

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
Guy Finley

Great, Freedom, Live

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
Chris Chocola

Today, Children, Tomorrow

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.
Russell Pearce

Price, Keeping, Recalled

One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
Russell Pearce

Done, Made, Said

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Mark Caine

Live, Enough, Cannot

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
Judd Gregg

Government, Made, Serious

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
Arianna Huffington

Hatred, Quality, Total

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
John Cheever

Good, Writing, Ego

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
Sherrod Brown

Leadership, Him, After

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
Hermann Broch

Hope, Alone, Important

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.
Johann Most

God, Makes, Order

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
Allen Boyd

Education, Health, Women

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
Bharati Mukherjee

America, Rejection, Dream

The economic message is a winner whether you're Greek, whether you're a woman, whether you're Hispanic it doesn't matter. The economic message is a winner and the fact that Obama didn't fulfill his promises is a killer for him.
Reince Priebus

Woman, Him, Winner

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.
Reince Priebus

After, American, Obama

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.
John C. Stennis

Around, Against, While

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
Tom Coburn

Made, Keep, Social

The future is as bright as the promises of God.
William Carey

God, Future, Bright

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
Greil Marcus

Patriotism, Live, Country

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