Abe Quotes

• If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

  Dick Gregory

  Stills, Ifs

  "From the Back of the Bus" by Dick Gregory, (p. 7), 1962.

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• For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Years, President

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• Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Lying, Long, Purpose

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• Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you [Hillary Clinton].

  Donald Trump

  Differences, Honest, Lied

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Hard Work, Men

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• Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

  Don Cornell

  Liberty, Politics, Died

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• I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

  Donald Trump

  Presidential, Persons, I Can

  "Donald Trump's First TV Interview as President". Interview with David Muir, fortune.com. January 26, 2017.

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• Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

  Malcolm X

  Men, America, Years

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• The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Teaching, Men

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• A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

  Audie Cornish

  People, Coffins, Magazines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print.

  Audie Cornish

  Careers, Done, Print

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.

  Gary Gulman

  Swings, Ideas, Underwear

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• If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.

  Dana Gould

  Compassion, Looks, Republican

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• The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

  Shinzo Abe

  Leadership, Japan, Roles

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• If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Failure, Lessons To Be Learned, Doe

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• Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Political, Today

  "Huntsman joins WH race, promising jobs, civility" by Beth Fouhy, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Prime, Ministers

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I have been to Tokyo and several other cities, but I have never been to Yamaguchi Prefecture. I wonder what it is like, what interesting things it has to offer. I am sure that Prime Minister [ Shinzō] Abe will tell me all about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Cities, Interesting, Tokyo

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Sincere, Prime

  Source: www.rt.com

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• If you look at Caterpillar now [in Japan] with what's going on. [Shinzō] Abe is a great leader. Who is our chief negotiator? Essentially it is Caroline Kennedy. I mean give me a break. She doesn't even know she's alive. It's Caroline Kennedy. So Caterpillar is having a hard time selling because Komatsu is under-cutting them.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Cutting, Hard Times

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.

  Vladimir Putin

  Telephones, Trump, Mets

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I think Shidzo Abe's proposal may be the only way to achieving our goal.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Goal, May

  Source: www.rt.com

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• If we act together along these lines, we will create conditions, the conditions for trust that Shinzō Abe speaks about, so as to take another step and conclude a peace treaty on certain terms. However, first, it is essential to cover this part of the way and then agree on the terms for signing a peace treaty. Both are challenging tasks but they are feasible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Challenges, Together, Essentials

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Issues, Needs

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Eight, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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