“He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'” FirstsWellsSaidIdeasWarStatesThreeCoursesMillionsSupportFourStandingConstantJewHopefullyEnterpriseAgreementDrsBeatenPalestineCradleZionist Author:Chaim Weizmann
“Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.” PeopleIfsSaidSelfHomeDreamPresidentMillionsOughtImmigrationRomneyVetoDream Act Author:David Plouffe
“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.” IfsKindSaidImportantSelfSchoolEducationOpinionMillionsSelf EsteemStudentsIgnoranceIgnorantEsteemPromotingDepriving Author:Thomas Sowell
“Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!” MenYearsBelieveLooksDoeSaidWould BeMillionsNiceCome UpBelieve In MeBeing Nice Author:Alan Vega
“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.” PeopleSaidHardFactsFilmTurnsMillionsTvsTomorrowOffersProgramAccountsDollarsSeriesLots Of MoneyPackagesMillion DollarsHard ThingsBank Accounts Author:Roone Arledge
“One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.” PeopleIfsWantYearsSaidMillionsFiveTvsIndustryDollarsFive YearsContractsMillion DollarsDo Whatever You Want Author:Roone Arledge
“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.” IfsThinkingMenShouldYearsSaidTwoDoneWould BeWantedPastMillionsMonthsDeserveConvincedConvincingMy PastTwo MonthsMachoWhy MeHairspray Author:John Travolta
“Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.” PeopleMeanSaidPoorMillionsConcernedRomney Author:David Letterman
“The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.” PeopleSaidWarSidesMillionsMediaEventsCriticsIncludingBoatCommunistVietnamRulersMistakenVietnam WarWithdrawalPlightCambodia Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.” WayYearsMadeSaidMillionsFireGroupsMinutesKeysNeededBeatsHumorousSittingDiscoveryYears AgoStonesRateWoodsHeyHeatLightningDinosaursSitting AroundCavemenInsurance Rate Author:Dave Barry
“Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.” PeopleWantGivingSaidIdeasShowsMillionsCrossesGive MeDollarsHonestlyInsaneAlsGoing OutSlidesMillion DollarsGoreInconvenientInconvenient Truth Author:Lawrence Bender
“I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].” ThinkingFirstsSaidImportantSometimesWinningPowerfulMillionsStatementsChicagoVersesMarathonMantrasStaleDefine Yourself Author:Deena Kastor
“God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars. God has said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested." It's done, in Jesus' name.” KnowsNeedsSaidDoneJesusNamesPrayerMillionsHeardPrayingRight NowDollarsOur PrayersMillion DollarsJesus Name Author:Pat Robertson
“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidTwoWholeShowsUsedTurnsSpeakInterestingSituationMillionsCarInvolvedDirectorsCamerasBlindPhonesProducersPlanesFreakSpeakersDeafVery InterestingGet InvolvedMenusTwo Of UsBrailleInteresting Situations Author:Jack Jason
“I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.” ChildrenSaidStatesFactsRunningPayMillionsWillingTiredClintonDemocratIraqSecretarySanctionsSanctimoniousMadeline Author:Scott Ritter
“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.” PeopleIfsWorldSaidTwoBookWarLinesMillionsRiskThousandTenPagesDiedDetailsWar Of The WorldsRepeatsGasConcentrationCampsWorld War IChamberAppearingSecond World WarConcentration CampGas ChambersSacrilegious Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen
“Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'” SaidI CanLastsChanceRaceMillionsHeardWeekRaisedCampaignsHeyPresidentialMarcosPresidential Campaign Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.” SaidRomanceLanguageSexMillions Author:Stephen Colbert
“I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'” IfsBelieveSaidPlayWantedMotherCan DoMillionsSonBallsDollarsYou Can Do ItIf You BelieveMillion DollarsBelieve You Can Author:Chris Gardner
“Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus.” SaidFactsFeltMillionsStreetsWallYesterdayFrustratedCeoBonusOccupy Wall Street Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?” FeelsYearsMeanSaidTwoHardLastsFunResponsibilityBoysMillionsPlansWeekPrideProjectsDollarsExecutivesVacationLast YearTaking ResponsibilityEightyTwo WeeksMillion DollarsRespondingDummy Author:Lee Iacocca
“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsMindFirstsSaidRememberChanceMillionsMagicHeardFansStageLove YouTypeLosingFirst TimeGardenShouldersSquaresOne TimeEntertainersMadisonMadison Square GardenLosing My Mind Author:Usher