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Our Quotes

What belongs to all of us, and what we owe each other.

These quotes use 'our' to point at collective stakes, from expecting transparency out of government to naming the real economic cost of persistent inequality. For more on civic accountability, see Government quotes.

Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign.

Quotes by Robert Pittenger

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Quotes by Robert Quillen

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

Quotes by Robert Orben

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Quotes by Robert McNamara

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

Quotes by Robert Matsui

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly thrilled to be there.

Quotes by Robert Lepage

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

Quotes by Robert Lopez

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Quotes by Robert Lanza

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Quotes by Robert Lanza

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Quotes by Robert Lanza

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Quotes by Robert Lanza

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

Quotes by Robert Jeffress

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Quotes by Robert Hughes

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Quotes by Robert Hall

For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes say about accountability in government?
One quote calls for straightforward accountability: "We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers." For more on this topic, see our Government page.
Is there a quote about influential scientists?
Yes - one quote reflects on scientific legacy, noting that "Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein."
Does the collection touch on how we understand nature?
One quote makes a subtle point about observation: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Browse more reflective lines in our About collection.
Is there a quote about the cost of inequality?
Yes - one quote lays out the stakes plainly, warning that inequality is "undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation." For more on national issues, see our Country page.
What ties these quotes together?
Each one uses "our" to point to something shared - a government, a century, a method of understanding, or a set of national ideals. Explore more in our Always section.

One line honors a physicist's outsized influence on 20th-century science, showing how the word also applies to shared intellectual history. Readers can also browse Country quotes for national identity or About quotes for broader context.