Quotes About Legacy

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

I am a Reagan Republican.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

I'm hungry in the ways that every artist is, but I also have this extra layer. I've done a lot of things that were consciously not for money, but because I'm so convinced I'm going to die in my mid-30s, I'm like, 'That's not what's important. Doing cool stuff and having that legacy is what's important.'

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

I have been very fortunate to see some very clearly excellent players play well to the very ends of their career, where they opted not to play anymore. I'm talking about Adrian Beltre. I'm talking about Torii Hunter. I'm talking about David Ortiz, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter. These are players who decided, 'You know, I've had enough. That's good.'

In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

It hurts me that Puyol is leaving Barcelona, and I wish him well. For me, he was always the fire that the team needed.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

The legacies of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, of Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein, stand as an inspiration for all who work for peace.