Claim Quotes

What people claim about fame, government, and identity, examined closely.

This page gathers quotes about the claims people and institutions make, from a modest claim to fame as an editor to a government's claim to legitimacy. One quote firmly separates ISIS from mainstream Islam, echoing the careful reasoning found in Assertion quotes.

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

Quotes by Adolf Galland

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Quotes by Adam Conover

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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Quotes by Woody Herman

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

Quotes by Rachel Brosnahan

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Quotes by Ovid

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Quotes by Ogden Nash

To claim that ISIS is Islamic is egregiously inaccurate and empirically unsustainable, not to mention insulting to the 1.6 billion non-violent adherents of Islam across the planet.

Quotes by Mehdi Hasan

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Quotes by Martin L. Gross

I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

Quotes by Hannah Fry

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

Quotes by Ernst Mayr

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Quotes by Dick Dale

I do not know it all and do not claim to.

Quotes by David Pratt

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Quotes by David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Quotes by David Korten

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

Quotes by Daniel Clowes

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Quotes by Christopher Lasch

If you claim something, you can own it.

Quotes by Carrie Fisher

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Quotes by Anson Mount

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A lighter entry notes how the French treat conversation itself as their claim to civilization. For more on how claims get repeated or challenged, see Claiming as a companion topic.