"If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them."

-- Lewis Carroll

#Long Quotes #Giving Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”

Source : Statement, November 08, 1998.
“You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.”
“Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.”
“I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.”
“Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.”

Source : Election speech as candidate for Congress, 1949.
“I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.”
“What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil...”
“I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.”

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