Words matter. These are the best Litmus Quotes from famous people such as Jim Sasser, Todd Tiahrt, Jeff Greenfield, Robert Casey, Rick Hoffman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One congressman asked ‘I just want to know if you’ve accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said ‘no.’ The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint – that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid ‘legislating from the bench.’
I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we’re out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.
There was a bad patch in the ’80s and early ’90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
I don’t think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I’m afraid of it, then I want to do it.
When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It’s all real because it’s all ‘real.’
I think that’s the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.
I love theatre because it’s just me and the audience. It’s the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns – despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.
I’m a Republican. I’m probably not the cookie-cutter Republican that fits the litmus test of Republican Party politics. But I don’t want to be that.
The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment – the performance anxiety, the litmus test.
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that’s my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there’s a piece of dialogue that’s just outstanding, or a description, then I’ll flip back to the first page and start it.
Where trial-court and appeals-court nominees were once routinely confirmed on voice vote, they are now routinely subjected to ideological litmus tests, filibusters, and vicious interest-group attacks.
I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company… they’re straight-shooters.
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don’t think it’s a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
I continually ask myself if a decision I’m about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It’s actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.
