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Dwight Quotes

Quotes referencing the name Dwight, from NFL locker rooms to the presidency.

This collection centers on the name Dwight, including a quote crediting Tim Dwight with showing a young NFL receiver the work ethic needed at the professional level. Another remembers Dwight Clark as anything but selfish.

When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I've really tried to...

Quotes by Wes Welker

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

Quotes by Steve Young

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

Quotes by Robert Dold

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Quotes by Rainn Wilson

Always Quotes

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Quotes by Oscar Levant

JFK inherited three recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower years. And he wound up slashing tax rates across the board, for upper, middle and lower incomes as well as corporate investment. That's Kennedy the Democrat.

Quotes by Lawrence Kudlow

I don't always match up with guys like Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum, but when I do, those guys are a challenge. Dwight, for example, is quick, explosive, and strong all in one.

Quotes by Kris Humphries

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, I was a college football junkie. My mom attended the University of Iowa and so I can remember I used to run around the backyard in a number 6, Tim Dwight Iowa jersey when...

Quotes by Kirk Cousins

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

Quotes by John Eisenhower

Eisenhower Quotes

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in...

Quotes by Jane Leavy

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to...

Quotes by Jack Lew

I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or...

Quotes by J. R. Smith

First Quotes

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

Quotes by Dan Jenkins

Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology...

Quotes by Claudia Gray

Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but...

Quotes by Bret Stephens

Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck to who they were. They weren't relying on radio like a lot of people are in...

Quotes by Aubrie Sellers

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who...

Quotes by Artur Davis

Great Quotes

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism...

Quotes by Amiri Baraka

Frequently Asked Questions

Who or what do the "Dwight" quotes reference?
Most of these quotes reference people named Dwight — football players Tim Dwight and Dwight Clark, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower — rather than a single shared theme.
Why search for quotes under the name "Dwight"?
People typically land here looking for something said about or by someone named Dwight, whether in sports or in the context of Eisenhower's presidency.
What does the quote about Dwight Clark say?
It states plainly that no one would call Dwight Clark selfish, a short tribute to his character rather than a description of his playing statistics.
What do the quotes about Eisenhower's presidency mention?
They note factually that Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each faced difficulties in their second terms, and separately observe that being the son of a Republican president led to an assumption about one's own political affiliation. Both statements are presented as historical observation, not political endorsement.
Is there a football-related quote about learning from teammates?
Yes, one quote credits time spent with Tim Dwight and Eric Parker in San Diego for teaching the work ethic needed to succeed as an NFL receiver.

Two quotes turn to history, noting how Dwight Eisenhower's second term brought its own challenges, and how being the son of a Republican president shaped one person's political identity. See First and Great quotes for related themes.