Tim Quotes

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

Despair is a natural emotion.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.

It's immoral to ask people to risk their life.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.

America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.

To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

We all have opinions and I don't think you need to apologize for your opinions.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

You know, boy, America is a closely divided country.

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.