Top 650 National Quotes

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.
Anthony Fauci
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jack Lew
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
Meg Tilly
I'm not going to give up. If people think I'm going to

I’m not going to give up. If people think I’m going to give up the French national team, they’re mistaken. I’m still here, and I’m still hungry for trophies.
Karim Benzema
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He’s got great charisma. He’s polarizing for some people, but he’s a rare talent.
Jon Gruden
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
Matthew Lesko
The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you’ll attract the institutions that want to be around talent – and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level.
Tim Kaine
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
Esther Williams
It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.
AB de Villiers
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Norm Dicks
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Howard Barker
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
Marie Curie
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The National guys will tell you the same thing – I tend to work until the last possible minute.
Aaron Dessner
Bullying is a national epidemic.
Macklemore
We’re in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
Jack Reed
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres
But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not common knowledge – or part of our national myth. It goes against the current romanticised view of the government, and much of the country, that Poles have always been victims, never oppressors.
Olga Tokarczuk
We don’t sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy’s national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
I’m not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There’s more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it’s a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.
Derek Jeter
The National Security Council’s real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
Oliver North
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
Elihu Root
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Jim Mattis
Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation’s capital.
Henry Bonilla
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal
The country needs leadership driven by the dictates of national security, not the ebb and flow of political fortunes.
Dominic Grieve
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
Bruce Barton
Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth.
Seth Moulton
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
Joseph Pulitzer
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
Mohsin Hamid
It’s more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.
Manuel Neuer
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
Jane Goodall
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig
I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.
Anthony Hopkins
John Kerry, who says he doesn’t like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
Zell Miller
Too often, farmers and producers are left out of the national conversation on the climate crisis – or even dismissed altogether. But in reality, their expertise is a big part of the solution.
Abigail Spanberger
I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
Gloria Steinem
People’s taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn’t just a waste – it’s also a risk.
Liz Kendall
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
C. L. R. James
While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.
Paul Gillmor
The National’s favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.
Aaron Dessner
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
Oliver Ellsworth
I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.
Stanley A. McChrystal
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture – in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review – there is not much reason to pay it attention.
Richard John Neuhaus
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
A. N. Wilson
Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he’s on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon’s presidency and then on into Gerald Ford.
Roger Morris
For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.
Angela Merkel
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
It was Chicago with its World’s Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
Daniel Burnham
Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
Anthony Albanese
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn’t make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
Bill Murray
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past – along with national, unilateralist action.
Helmut Kohl
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I’ve had a connection there for a long time.
Greg LeMond