#convention

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#candidates #chance #convention #delegates #fact

I like being unconventional. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#i #like #unconventional

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#centers #considered #conventional #different #different areas

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#conventional #does #guerrilla #lose #loses

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#charlie #conventional #him #little #little bit

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convention #conventional #criticism #departure #fury

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#better off #care #conventional #conventional wisdom #enough