A Quote by Tommy Douglas

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tommy Douglas

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Tommy Douglas
Canadian - Priest
October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986

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

Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct.

Joseph Sobran

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

Ronald Reagan

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Joyce Meyer

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

Caroline Myss

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Henry Wilson Allen

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

Newt Gingrich

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

Paul Broun

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Chocola

I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It's simply un-American.

Kevin de Leon

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.

Bob Beckel

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Vikram Seth

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