Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
As quoted in Meyer Berger’s New York (1960)
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Musæus of Hero and Leander; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mike Murphy (political consultant) (1962) American political consultant
As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard <br class="br">2010s
“It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: Blue Horses
Harriet Harman (1950) British politician
Reaction to the Coalition's budget http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100622/debtext/100622-0007.htm#10062245000003, 22 June, 2010. Link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vdzUJMcDpA&feature=related
“Man, I promise I'm so self conscious/Thats why you always see me with at least one of my watches”
Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter
All Falls Down
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
“Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.”
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
On campaign promises: Republican Party v. White, 536 U.S. 765 http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-521.ZO.html (2002) (majority opinion). <br class="br">2000s
“The man who eats with the greatest appetite has the least need of delicacies.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Diogenes Laertius
Gianfranco Fini (1952) Italian politician
Corriere della Sera, Fini: diamo il diritto di voto agli immigrati http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Politica/2003/10_Ottobre/07/fini.shtml, 7 October 2003.