Promises That Are Broken Quotes - Page 2

• I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Years, Law

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  Ovid

  Keeping Promises, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

  Hannah Arendt

  Future, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Summer, Winter, Keeping Promises

  "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

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• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Hypocrisy, Broken Promises, Cost

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• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Keeping Promises, May

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Broken Promises, Debt

  "Massive government debt becoming key issue in 2012 race". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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