Powerful Quotes

"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire"

George Soros, Businessman

"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Women don't realize how powerful they are"

Judith Light, Actress

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country"

John Acton, Historian

"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling"

Naomi Judd, Musician

"Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be"

Judith Light, Actress

"The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time"

Suzanne Fields

"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now"

John Carmack, Scientist

"In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful"

Allan Sloan

"What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love"

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

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