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I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
— Rene Balcer
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
— Frances O'Grady
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
— Colin Wilson
Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.
— Paul Gauguin
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
— Mary Ellen Chase
Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
— Dick Gephardt
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
— Charles Wheelan
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
— Edward Zigler
Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.
— Marjorie Bowen
Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.
— Gaylord Nelson
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
— Linda Chavez
For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
— Joseph J. Ellis
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
— Joe Abercrombie
So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
— Kitty Carlisle
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
— James M. Barrie
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
— C.S. Lewis
No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.
— Maria Augusta Von Trapp
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
— Graydon Carter
I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.
— George Benson
I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.
— Courteney Cox
The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
— James A. Michener
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
— Bob Casey Jr.
I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.
— Tim Henman
I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.
— Martina Navratilova
There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent
— Djuna Barnes
I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
— John Frankenheimer
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
You can fool some of the people some of the time and that's enough to make a decent living. — W.C. Fields
She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
— Jack Nicholson
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
— Sydney J. Harris
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
— Orson Scott Card
Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
— Gaines Adams
Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.
— Marlon James
You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?
— Steve Garfield
I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.
— Robert De Niro
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.
— Orson Scott Card
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
Even decent people can have awful friends.
— Anna Jarzab
She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?
— Rachel Vincent
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
— Michael Crichton
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
— Craig Brown
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
— William Henry Harrison
How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.
— Liz Carpenter
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
— Charles W. Pickering
It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.
— Harold J. Laski
I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.
— John McCain
It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!
— Justin Bieber
