Undermine Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (U) Quotes

"It`s astonishing to see how many of these Hollywood big-wigs are trying to undermine President Bush."

- Shirley Jones

I`m a good person, and I don`t want to undermine anyone. I don`t want to make anyone look stupid. I don`t talk badly about people. I just try to be a nice girl and that`s the best way to stay out of it. Some people have such big egos that they have to knock people down to get ahead. And I`m just who I am, and I`m a person who`s very lucky. But my life is my family and not my job. If it ever got too crazy I`d be like, `Okay, I`m checkin` out now.`

- Amanda Bynes

I`m not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband`s point of view.

- Laura Bush

I would never do anything to undermine my husband`s point of view.

- Laura Bush

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

- Christiane Amanpour

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

- John Ralston Saul

There is a fear about sex in motion pictures, as if sex would undermine morality.

- Paul Verhoeven

When you`re expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you`re the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

- Scott Hamilton

It will undermine the international competitiveness of UK industry.

- Kevin Anderson

If the U.K. government does not curb aviation growth, all other sectors of the economy will eventually be forced to become carbon neutral. It will undermine the competitiveness of U.K. industry.

- Kevin Anderson

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don`t let them take you ALIVE.

- Sid Vicious

The obscenities of recent days may well be designed to undermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to do so,

- David Andrews

Because the purpose of these mandates is not to expose the myth of racial profiling, but is instead to serve the aims of anti-police advocates who want to undermine law-enforcement agencies from being able to do their jobs, I can`t see where this can have a positive impact.

- Heather MacDonald

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

- Adam Schiff

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

- Roy Barnes

Any efforts like Mr. Muhammad`s, to undermine officers who are trying to do their jobs, only put our communities at risk.

- Bob Baker

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

- Anita Hill

It has to be so compelling as to undermine confidence in the verdict.

- Jack King

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China`s ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China`s younger generation.

- Tom Lantos

No matter what a woman`s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

- Naomi Wolf

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

- Kim Campbell

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

- John Ensign

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

- Al Hostetler

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

- Alan Stray

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who`s going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

- Alasdair Haynes

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that`s why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

- Alex Laughlin

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the `security` out of Social Security.

- Amanda Gonsalves

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

- Amanda Merrell

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

- Amitabh Ray

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional `rights` in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people`s right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

- Amjad Hussain

The tyrant always talks as if he`s preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

- Amy Moore

A few days ago, the Democrat National Committee put out a press release attacking Bush for being physically fit. It seems his physical fitness comes at the expense of the nation`s lardbutt youth. Or as the DNC put it: `While President Bush has made physical fitness a personal priority, his cuts to education funding have forced schools to roll back physical education classes and his administration`s efforts to undermine Title IX sports programs have threatened thousands of women`s college sports programs.` Wow. I noticed my gal had put on a few pounds but I had no idea it was Bush`s fault.

- Anita Hauser

They have been counted properly, ... And we don`t need to go back to all that old thing. You know what? This election was held on its proper day and counted properly and, you know, frankly, to go back now and try to undermine the legitimacy of this election is very troubling.

- Arlene Blosch

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man`s self-respect is a sin.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No matter what a woman`s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society

- Naomi Wolf

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero