I tell you very openly: it's much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

The BJP's central leadership needs to recast the party structure where you openly speak of Hindutva and Indianness.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

I'm grateful to Donald Trump's pro-life views, and I'm grateful that he's expressed those views so publicly and openly.

Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.

In Punjab, we have a friendly environment and whoever gets a story idea, we discuss it openly and work jointly towards it.

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

The States are more accommodating to fat people - there are more plus-sized clothing labels, and people talk openly about it.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.

Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are commonly known to openly attack people who get in their way or don't agree with them and their agenda.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

It is not justice when you beat someone after tying their hands, but award a clean chit to another who openly confesses his crimes.

I would not openly categorize myself as a sullen teenager, but that kind of role comes more easier to me than a bright, perky thing.

I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not and I think talking so openly about my story gave me acceptance that it's ok to be me.

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.

I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.

I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.

We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel.

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

I have gay people in my family who weren't able to openly discuss homosexuality, and I feel like that's shifted, especially here on the coast.

I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I was lucky that I had parents that had had supernatural experiences, so I could talk to them openly without them looking at me as some lunatic.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

I don't understand why Germans are openly demonstrating against Islamization and radicalization but don't help the people who flee from such horrors.

I think that, given that some people feel very embarrassed by it, it isn't too difficult to breastfeed a baby in a way that's not openly ostentatious.

When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.

Our freedom to criticize the government - as openly and brutally as we want to - serves as a vital check against unbridled government power and control.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

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