“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.” ThinkingLittlesSelfAbleFightingBitsWalksRecordsWillingPrideLittle BitSakeSelf Respect Author:Ryan Adams
“The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard. I have seen the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is written. An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record, and had I been willing to have perjured myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done and am now doing for these things are true.” KnowsMenHas BeensBookDoneRichRecordsWrittenHeardWillingBearsAngelGoldFakePlatesTestimonyCould Have BeenTruthfulnessRich Man Author:Martin Harris
“Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.” PeopleMindWellsMeanStatesHumorPoliticalOrderPresidentTalkingRecordsHavensExampleWillingConvinceTexasSay AnythingPolitical HumorPunditsGood Records Author:George W. Bush
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.” MenWellsGovernmentLawPoliticsJusticeCommonEffortPracticeCreativeRecordsViolenceWillingCitizensProtectLetting GoCapableFunctionBiggerPropertyFraudProvenAssignmentsInvokePredatoryMisrepresentation Author:Leonard Read
“What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.” IfsWantKindI CanRecordsWillingOfficeQuittingSecureAnxiousLegislationUsefulness Author:William Howard Taft
“Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.” FallRecordsWillingFlightAviationMortgage Author:Amelia Earhart
“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.” CareersRecordsToo MuchCuttingStageParticularWillingTasteApproachTrackEditorsProvenInputEditorialsTrack RecordPersonal Taste Author:Grant Morrison
“Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.” MenYearsCountryDoneAmericaYoungInterestCan DoLinesPowerfulPartyRecordsGroupsWillingMy FriendsToughDemocraticSignificantGreat ThingsOur CountryYoung ManSubstitutesSenateGiftedSenatorsDemocratic PartyTough TimesEloquenceEloquentInterest Groups Author:Joe Lieberman
“I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingBelieveMeanPlayFightingRealizingOpinionRecordsWillingWallConvinceThroatTrenches Author:Bernie Finkelstein
“Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.” NeedsMeanBigsRecordsRiskWillingBandSellsMagazinesLabels Author:Mat McNerney
“If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that.” IfsWantAsksHoursRecordsPolicyWillingAsk MeInterviewsForeign PolicyDomestic Policy Author:John Kasich
“I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.” KnowsMightSongRecordsWillingMaterialsCome UpGods Will Author:Leonard Cohen
“I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.” NextAsksRecordsWillingMembersSorryDefenseAcknowledgeSenateSecretaryCommitteesDisturbingProposeArmed Services Author:James Mattis