Henry Kaufman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Eye #Views #Trying
I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Moving #Gun #Order
I think it's very difficult in the first go-round for congressional people and political people to understand the linkages that exist between us and the rest of the world. That we're not insular anymore.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Thinking #People #Political
Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Father #Belief #Enormous
No matter how important we all think we are as individuals, when it comes down to it, we're not that important. At times we better recognize that. That life goes on, thank goodness. That we better recognize our role in society.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Thinking #Important #Roles
There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
-- Henry Kaufman

#Two #People #Kind

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Henry Kaufman famous quotes

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