Harry Reid Quotes

No legislator ever got in trouble for voting against a bill that passed or for a bill that didn’t pass.

Mr. President. We can’t be certain our recommended plan to assist Mexico will work, and if it doesn’t, it may cost you your Presidency.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

If you are going to take the political pain of slaying sacred cows, you might as well slaughter the whole herd as just go after one or two.

When we rely on others to finance our foreign policy, we put it at risk.

The truth is, politicians want to be reelected, and no European leader sill risk his or her future by overusing a policy that us costly in the short run but possibly beneficial in the long run.

We can't afford any president to fail.

I don't look at me taking risks or if that's going to affect me politically.

After all, Bill Clinton is the guy that signed welfare reform.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

My administration's policies on regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country.

A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.