William Galston Quotes

#1. If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Robert Webb

#2. Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Dario Fo

#3. As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

Natan Sharansky

#4. When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.

Stephen King

#5. Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Jean Rhys

#6. Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

Natalie J. Damschroder

#7. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

William Galston

#8. Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.

Arthur William Galston

#9. In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

Arthur William Galston

#10. To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Elizabeth Peyton

#11. It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

William Galston

#12. When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

William Galston

#13. The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William Galston