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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Carol Burnett

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

John Adams

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

He was a revolutionary fighter for justice, and he sought a radical transformation of America and the world.

James Zogby

The building expresses in its original architecture and design the idea of a research and teaching university. The building looks traditional but the idea behind it was radical.

David Guth

I don't see a significant or radical change in our overall strategy as a company.

Mark Parker

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

Jack Templeton

It was radical for anybody to do this. You could see that it was going to be a challenge from the get-go.

Bruce Belzowski

Italy needs radical reform to cut its unit labor costs and regain competitiveness, but that can be a very painful process.

Silvia Pepino

It scares the heck out of me. It carves out an unprecedented exemption for agriculture. It seems like a radical departure from the way we have governed for a couple hundred years in this country.

Tim Hogan

The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go to the roots of the problem.

Alice Mccarthy

We have been and will be conducting a radical portfolio review process in the U.S., ... The objective is to assess the positioning of our divisions there to obtain critical mass and raise profitability.

Heinrich Von Pierer

I believe we need to make some radical moves to get the attention of everyone.

Lou Brock

Even if he doesn't win, he could be a radical voice for the left.

Christian Stracke

[Analysts were stunned by Porsche's move, which they said was a radical departure for a traditionally conservative company.] Porsche told us that they were going to invest back into the company rather than pay higher dividends, ... Now they're investing in one of the least profitable car companies in Europe.

Arndt Ellinghorst

No question it is radical.

Mike Hermann

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

One vision is that, if it worked well, we could have a much larger fund in the future. This is a building block for something quite novel and radical, which could change humanitarian financing.

Pelle Enarsson

LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.

Peter O'kelly

These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern.

Angel Acebes

We cannot afford for the radical left to impose their values on the West.

Ray Hunkins

I always loved fish-eye lenses. It came from how radical my [eyeglass] prescription was. It wasnt until someone dropped LSD on me back in the early 70s that, all of a sudden, I realized again what my prescription did to my vision. I was always looking into these extreme-convex lenses my whole life.

Mark Mothersbaugh

These proposals are a radical revision of the existing framework. Next year's proxies on executive pay are going to look pretty different.

Mark Borges

It is hard to convince them to change 180 degrees. I hope it will happen. You know they are very radical and it is hard to convince them.

Omar Suleiman

History will now say on this impeachment, as they said on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, that it was the radical Republicans. ... And that is going to be the judgment of history.

Ted Kennedy

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

The industry is in the process of a radical restructuring. It is the bleakest time.

George Hamlin

It is absolutely scandalous, ... Are human rights not for all humans, or have we decided that radical imams are monsters?

Pierre Dubois

The publication of caricatures, deemed offensive by Muslims, has added ammunition for radical groups to exploit the situation and make the reaction become out of proportion and damaging.

Hassan Wirajuda

A hungry man is an angry man. We hope the world will not allow the Palestinian people to suffer, because this will only make people more radical.

Aziz Dweik

This is one of those issues that you just can't put down, ... It is a fantastic read, and will leave you with no doubt whatsoever that America's colleges today have become radical indoctrination centers ? and your kids are the target.

Joseph Farah

This is a company that's grossly inefficient, it could do with a radical shake-up.

Craig Young

Anything he does in parliament will depend on getting support on the left. It is going to be dangerous for him to push anything too radical.

Stephen Clarkson

This is simply one more in a string of defeats for the radical homosexual agenda in the greater Charlotte area. The Church of Jesus Christ has come out of the closet and, and because it has, the homosexual community is steadily moving back into it.

Rev. Flip Benham

My fear was that people expected radical change because of the new contract. But no.

Christian Lacroix

If he governs by really carrying out his agenda, which is quite a radical agenda, I think it's going to be very difficult for him.

Michael Shifter

I hope to let people know there are other voices out there, not just the radical left.

Joseph Williams

We wanted something that could have some sustained success. And Isiah felt he needed to do a lot of radical, controversial things just to put us in a position where we could start moving on that.

Steve Mills

The games will take place despite radical political change in the country.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.

Alexander Alexeyev

We may need to consider some radical changes.

Dan Washburn

Jesus called for nothing like this, and Pat Robertson sounded more like one of the radical imams.

Os Guinness

It was considered radical at the time.

Gayla Harkin

It's a pretty radical experiment. Nobody has done it quite like this before.

Thomas Siebel

Because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam ? and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.

Tom Tancredo

I believe if they put people under more hardship they will become more radical.

Mustafa Barghouti

We don't believe the views and objectives held by radical conservatives are representative of mainstream Kansas views.

Don Hineman

There are lots of other places to cut costs, including direct-to-consumer advertising. But even with a radical restructuring, Pfizer will need multiple new blockbusters to make up for shrinking sales of drugs losing patent protection -- and doesn't have them.

Max Jacobs

It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter.

Glenn Audenaert

We had a radical clash over policy programs, a pact now would be incomprehensible for the citizens. There can be no coup de theatre, no rabbit pulled out of a hat.

Massimo D'alema

To say that Roberts is hostile to these women because he opposed these radical initiatives simply defies common sense.

Jennifer Braceras

All of this is fairly radical. It allows people to become not just a partner in their care, but a team leader.

Holly Miller

The question becomes, which is the conservative and which is the radical decision? I think the more radical choice, frankly, is not to give the vaccine.

Paul Offit

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Alan Keyes

I'm sorry to say this, because I also have a dog at home, but the only way to prevent this kind of events is to take a radical measure of exterminating stray dogs.

Razvan Murgeanu

Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game - you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures.

Jennifer Mccoy

There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.

Tilda Swinton

Responding with a high priority to the protection of the community and the French population overall against the slide to this political, violent form of radical Islam.

Dalil Boubakeur

What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society? ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.

Rick Santorum

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Cheris Kramarae

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget.

Todd Solondz

The only interest they have is to increase abortions in America, and to further their own radical, extremist agenda.

Olivia Gans

The chopper market is nice. It's definitely a different market. Those full-blown choppers are a lot more radical, with the front end all raked out. We want to give our customers options, so we picked up the custom Vengeance line.

Gregory Faiella

Bike culture is incredibly diverse, ... You've got the ultimate Republican, George Bush, riding bikes, and you've got radical leftists riding bikes.

Gary Fisher

The cartoons have hurt the Islamic community, so it has added to ammunition for (global) radical groups to exploit the situation and the whole thing has got out of proportion.

Hassan Wirajuda

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Harold Rosenberg

We are not much interested in labels but if we were to choose one, we would say we are radical. Just as radical as the Christian doctrine.

William H. Grimes

One cannot insult a religion whatever it is. To defend the dignity of one's religion does not mean one is radical.

Fouad Alaoui

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Mark Twain

It appears our nation's pattern of payments is finally evolving - some might say it is experiencing a radical change - from one based on paper checks to one based on electronics.

Anthony Santomero

Austen has a strong feminist vision of marital happiness. And that was a radical viewpoint for its time.

Helen Thompson

The; situation with xenophobia is getting more acute. The activity of radical groups is growing. And the authorities are increasingly speculating on the prejudices in society.

Alexander Brod

We've gotten better at taking care of the ball from the beginning of the season. We've been playing a lot more man-to-man defense and not running as much. It's a pretty radical change, but we needed to do it because of our depth.

Chris Joseph

We wanted to do something that is student-, parent- and teacher-friendly and not be too radical that people wouldn't understand it. This is the new way education is changing.

Michelle Turner

It could spend 10% or 20% of that to buy a bank or start a fund. There are many ideas out there. It just has to adopt a more radical mindset.

Toru Hosoi

The radical left is coming up with false claims of racism because they don't like his pro-life stance or his faith in God.

Beverly Lahaye

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Lou Brock

It's highly unlikely anyone President Bush appoints will be much different. There will be no radical change. The question is what flavor of conservative.

Paul Finkelman

If there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option.

Ruth Kelly

Anyone who understands economics knows radical budget restrictions are in the works.

Viktor Orban

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

Nancy Pelosi

When you watch the (news) segment, isn't it very clear to you that he's talking about radical Islam? It's very obvious that we pointed out that it's about radical Islam and terrorists.

Angell Watts

It's about the ability of human beings to change their lives using this radical new technology just the way Jesse did. Because he would not be standing here without the Internet. I wouldn't know him. He wouldn't be at this university.

Jon Katz

Sometimes people think (that) to see that we are family is to be sentimental. But one has to say: This is one of the most radical things, actually. When we do what we think is charitable, it isn't anything more than our obligation as family members.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

It's a radical change from the 60s, when the first black person ever in a commercial was a little kid sliding into second base. He's just a flash and you have to stop and look 10 times to see that he's black.

Lawrence Lichty

Coach Pitino sat me and Delray down and told us, 'If you take one shot, we'll lose,' ... I don't know if it was radical as much as he was saying to us, 'Here's what we have to do to take advantage of the way Georgetown is playing.'

Billy Donovan

Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game — you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures ... and that generates fear and insecurity and an inability to empathize with the other side.

Jennifer Mccoy

So, our choices, however radical they may seem, are extremely well-founded.

Christine Maggiore

This really isn't that radical a program.

Rep. Dave Heaton

The support they gained is not support for radical changes.

Donna Dasko

This is very radical. We've had a number of inquiries from incumbents from different parts of the world who've asked us the question 'is BT mad for agreeing this?

Mike Cansfield

I thought she might have been a little more radical. I actually expected to see more fundamental changes. I assume this is an interim Cabinet until after the elections. If she wins she will probably make more changes.

Horace Peterkin

[The bill] changes the Endangered Species Act in a radical, radical way, ... It's an entitlement program for landowners who want to gut the Endangered Species Act.

Tom Udall

He wore a beard. That was enough to mark him as a radical.

Hayan Saad

This represents a radical change in the way people have thought about aging.

Richard Lerner

It's one of those areas of politics where people have become accustomed to something that was once radical. It's just normative at this point.

Julian Zelizer

In the future, we?re going to go through a radical change. We will be creating and servicing a network of game communities...a shift from a disk-based to a network-based business.

Phil Harrison

Whenever there is a sort of free radical coming into an equation it kind of bounces off everything in the equation.

Danny Pino

There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the failure to establish a functioning legal system.

Alexander Rahr

Radical surgery like that proposed at Delphi is no solution at all. It is a formula for demise, if not confrontation.

Marco Trbovich

In the name of participatory democracy, President George W. Bush's Arab reform policies are actively enfranchising radical Islamist parties with armed militias: in Iraq, where they form the government; in Lebanon, where Hezbollah now holds government ministries; and now, potentially, in Palestine.

Yossi Alpher

The alarm bells should be ringing in the palace. It could be the beginning of a more radical shift.

Kunda Dixit

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Bede Griffiths

If you want to characterize them in a word that is very popular this week, [the budget cuts] are very mainstream. There is nothing radical about these cuts.

Mike Franc

In this election season, the Republican leadership has decided that it's in their political interest to side with the ignorance and bigotry of the radical right.

Nita Lowey

Poland awaits radical changes, but not revolutionary changes. My brother uses the term moral revolution. Moral revolution has nothing to do with political revolution.

Lech Kaczynski

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Kathy Valentine

We believe it is one of the world`s most radical hotel concepts and will offer a solution to expensive and boring hotels around the globe, while also delivering a wake-up call to the industry.

Simon Woodroffe

Years ago, we stepped away from the radical fringe. I'm not saying that a father who has lost his kids hasn't (made threats). I'm saying we have no knowledge of it.

Jim Hayes

It's certainly not as radical as the headline number suggests, but it's a little bit softer than expected.

Andrew Goodsall

There are many people of integrity in both parties who will continue to oppose this radical effort to significantly weaken one of our country's most important environmental laws.

Robert Stack

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

It is a fairly radical departure, but the events of the last little while suggest the need for a radical departure. We have not come to the idea of state funding gladly.

Oliver Letwin

With the company's radical position, we couldn't agree on a new contract, so hopefully with a third party involved it will help.

Idelfonso Ciprian

We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.

Dewi Fortuna Anwar

If so, I believe people would come to a microphone and speak in favor of this proposal and against a more radical proposal.

David Horton

Some radical paganism went on there.

Scott Bass

It seemed kinda like the time. I thought it was gonna be radical, one way or another. Either he was going to get roofed or he was going to be great.

Tom Peterson

He will go some way to address the problems, but he will not be radical.

James Walston

This extraordinary act demonstrated outstanding dedication and commitment to his research, ... produced one of the most radical and important changes in the last 50 years in the perception of a medical condition.

Robert May

We don't represent the crazy radical left here. We represent the majority of Americans who think this is a wrong war and it is time to end it.

Chris Wangro

Clawing your way up into raw consumer awareness is an interesting thing. It takes something pretty radical to do that, and that package served them really well, leaks and all. Consumers, if they fall in love with you, will forgive you at an early stage in life as long as it's clear you're doing something about it.

Tim Koogle

This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now.

John Walke

We feel this as a tragic and historic mistake that harms in a serious way the international war against radical Islamic terrorism.

Morton Klein

I like very radical character art. I'm fascinated with the process of change from one extreme to another and capturing it in a way that is so gradual the audience doesn't realize it until later. That's the ultimate challenge.

Monty Lapica

Both the movies and the marketing will have a pretty radical aesthetic. We're going to try to be bold.

Tom Rothman

The appropriateness of the design has been questioned by many people because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.

Tom Tancredo

Believe me, no one in the SPD will allow Merkel to win the elections. There's no chance that we will make this woman, with such radical economic views, chancellor.

Ludwig Stiegler

I think it has a pernicious effect on society. Hollywood projects a leftist homosexual agenda, which goes along with radical feminism, and a misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches.

Tom Snyder

If he did want to go in that inflation targeting direction, it would be a radical change at the Fed. It would be very difficult and I don't see it forthcoming any time soon.

Ann Hurley

A national law, obviously, would have a tremendous negative effect on Christianity and mission work there. We just need to pray that won't happen. Really the goal of radical Hindus is to turn India in a pure Hindu nation.

Jerry Dykstra

If there is a snap election, he will run if only to prove that the Filipino people love him and that they want radical change in leadership.

Didagen Dilangalen

The day the rabbi came to our mosque and spoke to 500 Muslims, that was an awesome moment. That's not the sort of behavior of a radical imam. And now, all that is destroyed.

Taj Khan

Online trading represents a radical change in the relationship between brokerages and their customers. These 10 tips lay out some of the things investors should expect in this relationship.

Bradley Skolnik

More radical and, likely painful, changes are necessary to preserve the brand and the company.

Richard Weinhart

Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and something very radical needs to be done like closing down and trying to start anew.

David Finkelhor

What you do with a bombing campaign is bring a whole country rallying around its radical leaders.

John Hamre

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."

Angela Davis

I couldn't believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can't be true, because I'm a radical feminist. But it was. So I thought I'd better look at what was going on beneath this obsession.

Eve Ensler

The growth in power of radical Islamism is a new menace, which can threaten the integrity of a business.

Eric Denece

I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in some cases there would be more under the Democrats.

Ellis Krauss

This individual had been engaged in flight training in the United States, and the FBI believed he was possibly a radical fundamentalist.

Eleanor Hill