Fight Quotes

"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it"

"It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS"

Gwen Moore, Politician

"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda"

John Yoo, Educator

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I really fight for my privacy"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in"

Voltaire, Writer

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside"

Mark Twain, Author

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Mark Twain, Author

"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk"

David Carradine, Actor

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Never fight an inanimate object"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher