Alan Cranston Quotes

#1. We were soul mates. Bound through time with a love stronger than steel. He was mine. And I was his. Unquestionably. Forever. Yet here we were. He was half-dressed and embracing my sworn enemy.

Courtney Cole

#2. As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

Alan Cranston

#3. Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

Jim Rohn

#4. The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Peter Schiff

#5. Dietary patterns are set at a very early age - somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#6. You know what's not boring? Food, delicious food!

John Green

#7. The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

Alan Cranston

#8. Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Alan Cranston

#9. Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

Alan Cranston

#10. The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Alan Cranston

#11. To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

#12. He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying. - Warren

Brandon Mull

#13. Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

Alan Cranston

#14. We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

Gavin MacLeod

#15. I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

Alan Cranston

#16. You're not supposed to give people things unless you're sure they'd like to get them from you ... [B]ut it goes deeper than that. when you give somebody something, you're saying out loud that you know they'd like to have you give -
Ned Beaumont, The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett

#17. I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

Alan Cranston

#18. Write and create a blue sky
Forever with joy where I can fly.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

Jude Morgan

#20. If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

Amanda Abbington

#21. Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

Alan Cranston

#22. Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

Alan Cranston

#23. There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Alan Cranston

#24. You can't build Liberia without developing the minds of Liberians.

Henry Johnson Jr

#25. The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.

Alan Cranston