Voinovich's Quotes

#1. Often touching ... Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips ... In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.

Ken Kalfus

#2. My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

Anthony Hamilton

#3. Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Vladimir Voinovich

#4. A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.

Vladimir Voinovich

#5. That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

Vladimir Voinovich

#7. A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

Vladimir Voinovich

#8. I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

George Voinovich

#9. When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

Vladimir Voinovich

#10. I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

George Voinovich

#11. I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

George Voinovich

#12. I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

George Voinovich

#13. We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'

George Voinovich

#14. The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

George Voinovich

#15. Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

George Voinovich

#16. I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

George Voinovich

#17. To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

George Voinovich

#18. I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'

Erin Gruwell

#19. People relations is hard business. Hard to keep that going.

Jamie Ford

#20. A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

Vladimir Voinovich

#21. It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

George Voinovich

#22. Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney ... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years.

Roseanne Barr