Top 454 Primary Quotes

We are surely the primary agent of death for all members of the cat tribe. For many if not most cat species, our depredations must surpass accidents, disease, and even starvation by a considerable margin.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
Lincoln Chafee
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes.
Laura van den Berg
The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never

The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party’s biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.
Donna Brazile
Michael Chertoff and the Department of Homeland Security, they have the primary responsibility of ensuring that our ports are secure.
Alberto Gonzales
I’m quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern – mankind.
Chico Hamilton
Holding political leaders accountable on behalf of voters is at the core of what I do every day in my role as Chief White House Correspondent, so to do it on the national stage at a critical moment in the primary is a responsibility I take really seriously.
Hallie Jackson
What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn’t your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don’t have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won’t make as much money.
Joe Russo
The day after my mom died I fly back to California and spend the three weeks before the California primary making arrangements for her cremation, planning and getting the house ready for a memorial service and covering political rallies in Southern California. The normalcy of work helps.
Brianna Keilar
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Jeff Bingaman
The primary reason that I’d be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Mr. Putin’s primary goal in the 2016 elections was to delegitimize our institutions and pit Americans against each other.
Antony Blinken
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize ‘inconvenient’ facts – I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Max Weber
The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
Ted Deutch
Conservatives really don’t believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don’t tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
P. J. O’Rourke
There is no need to respond to whatever your most powerful and unaccountable political opponent says you have to respond to, particularly on their own corrupt and partisan terms. Treat them as your primary political opposition, because they are.
Mollie Hemingway
Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.
Keith Teare
What’s really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that ‘Ready Player One’ is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.
Ernest Cline
Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they’re not usually inclined to do – replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.
Bill Kristol
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was… Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.
Jeff Greenfield
Our biggest achievement was health-sector reform. The success was in making sure that primary health care was the center of gravity in our health system.
Tedros Adhanom
I think when you’re working with a character that another writer is acting as – for lack of a better word – custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that ‘primary’ take.
Greg Rucka
I’ve voted in a Republican primary in the past. That’s something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we don’t register as Republicans or Democrats. We vote in whichever primary we think it’s more critical at the time.
MJ Hegar
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being ‘spend cash mon-nay’ rather than execute the Constitution.
Dana Loesch
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
Gad Saad
Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.
George Weah
We are a primary target for the Iranian regime… We won’t wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we’ll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.
Mohammad bin Salman
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
Josh McDowell
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
Steven Levitt
I don’t have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I’m fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.
Pete Gallego
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
Sue Perkins
Yes, after I finished my primary school, I went to the Rock Academy. I was only there for one year. I wanted to focus on my own music instead of making music for the school. So, I quit and started my own label.
Hardwell
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
When I was younger and in primary school, I’d do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.
Saoirse Ronan
The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinn

The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer Giles, Rover the Dog, Old Lob the shepherd and Mrs Cuddy the Cow. I was very fond of Mrs Cuddy.
Michael Rosen
I’m moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I’ve had a baby. I’m sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I’m pumping breast milk… twenty minutes before I’m going on.
Campbell Brown
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word ‘Woman.’
Gaston Lachaise
One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
Kirsten Gillibrand
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
Harold Edward Holt
There was a time when radio stations wouldn’t play Gaga’s music because it was considered dance. Outside of live performances, the Internet became our primary tool to help people discover her music.
Troy Carter
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what’s happening inside this particular person.
Alice McDermott
To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.
Shaun King
The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.
Lyor Cohen
Because what’s going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.
Robert McChesney
The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her.
Barry Gardiner
When my three co-founders and I started Warby Parker in 2010, our primary intention was to sell good-looking, affordable eyewear online.
Neil Blumenthal
We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films – although I think they do have plots – but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
Jim Jarmusch
I can’t imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
John Cornyn