Quotes About Position

Too many politicians are so worried about getting re-elected that they fear taking an unpopular position. I don't.

I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn't intrude. I'm a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade and women being able to make these decisions. In government, we have enough things to worry about.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

I have a ton of confidence in myself. You have to, to play this position.

I've been playing quarterback for a long time, and there's a ton of expectations no matter where you are and how you got there. That's part of the game and part of the position. That's part of the reason I love playing the position, is the expectations and the pressure and all of the outside things that come along with it.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

I think Tony Gonzalez always set the standard. He was the guy that, I think for all of us, when I came in that was really kinda taking this league over as the tight end position. I think Shannon Sharpe was another one.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.

Taiwan, by its nature, is in a unique international position and it has to stand up for itself where and when it can.

Uli?ni protesti iz 1973. godine: za lakat mu se pridržava djevojka i on je nagnut unazad, prema njoj, ramenom je štiti, tako da je cijelo njegovo tijelo zauzelo položaj u odnosu na njeno prisustvo, a ne u odnosu na policiju ispred njih... i, eto, zna?i, to je ta Povijest? Sjena koju baca muško rame

If you can't state your position in eight words, you don't have a position.

Plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.

My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.