| Robert M. Gates |  I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.
Robert M. Gates |
| Robert M. La Follette | If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
Robert M. La Follette |
| Robert Moog | My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
Robert Moog |
| Robert Orben | Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben |
| Robert Rauschenberg | I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.
Robert Rauschenberg |
| Robert South | Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South |
| Robin Williams | Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
Robin Williams |
| Rod Blagojevich | For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.
Rod Blagojevich |
| Rod Steiger | And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
Rod Steiger |
| Rod Stewart | What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
Rod Stewart |
| Roger Bannister | The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
Roger Bannister |
| Roger Ebert | I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
Roger Ebert |
| Roger Wicker | We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
Roger Wicker |
| Ron Johnson | The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
Ron Johnson |
| Ron Reagan | We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Ron Reagan |
| Ronald Blythe | To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Ronald Blythe |
| Ronnie Spector | Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
Ronnie Spector |
| Roone Arledge | But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
Roone Arledge |
| round | 'I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: 'the reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. |
| Russell Baker | Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker |
