E. P. Sanders Quotes

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Real freedom must include economic security.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

When we have public success we also have private struggles.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

My language is the sum total of myself.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.

People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It's real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb. And if millions of people begin to stand up and fight back, they're going to be thinking twice about doing very bad things.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.