My administration’s compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran’s nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on...

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he’s noticed.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait,...

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don’t accept anything less.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the...

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug....

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity –...

I’m so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain’t affecting my life at all.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we...

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy’s prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can’t use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut...

We all know what is meant by the term ‘international community,’ don’t we? It’s the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term ‘international community’ is a way of dignifying the West, of...

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

‘Homeland’ really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what’s kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because...

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to...

Although women do two-thirds of the world’s labor, they own less than one percent of the world’s assets.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

I’m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it’s about immediate delivery. There’s less risk and less art.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I’m going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if...

You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

I think, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make...

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for...

I’ve gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

I don’t even know what sound is, much less what it’s for. It isn’t to make money that’s for sure. I’ve never made any.

I’ve always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

It’s all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Speak less but act more.

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits...

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

I wish my readers took less of my time – about a third of my working time goes to them – but I love and need them all.

If the American government can’t stand behind the dollar, the world’s benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less...