We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

George P. Shultz

Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

Amanda de Cadenet

Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.

Amit Shah

Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

Arthur L. Herman

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Christine Quinn

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

Christine Quinn

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Christine Quinn

I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.

Cornelia Parker

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

David Duchovny

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

Declan Donnelly

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Demetri Martin

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

Diane Guerrero

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

Douglas Rushkoff

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Elizabeth Warren

And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the Russian domestic environment.

Fiona Hill

America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.

Gary Johnson

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

Gavin Newsom

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

Geoff Johns

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

George Miller