A Quote by Nat Hentoff

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

Nat Hentoff

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Nat Hentoff
American - Novelist
June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017

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Henry Rollins

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes it's great to have a backbone, but you've got to be careful. Remember that sometimes, when you hurt your backbone, you can't get it fixed because you don't have enough money.

Terry Funk

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Gore Vidal

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

Cory Barlog

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

Duffy Daugherty

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

Patrick Wilson

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Bill Pullman

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Byron Dorgan

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Ronald Reagan

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.

Michael McCaul

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

Lindsey Graham

I'm very transparent. What you see is what you get. 'I date this person, this happened to me' and I have to be honest about it... because of that I developed a backbone.