Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by John Lindsay

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, and candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America. Lindsay served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York City from January 1966 to December 1973. He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as well as the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York. He died from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on December 19, 2000.

American - Politician | November 24, 1921 - December 19, 2000

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Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

John Lindsay

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

John Lindsay

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

John Lindsay

The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.

John Lindsay

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

John Lindsay

New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

John Lindsay

There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

John Lindsay

The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.

John Lindsay

Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

John Lindsay

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

John Lindsay

I'm definitely more interested in technologies that are more accessible, that are as accessible as possible.

John Lindsay

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

John Lindsay

Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

John Lindsay

I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

John Lindsay

I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

John Lindsay

You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.

John Lindsay

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.

John Lindsay

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by John Lindsay

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