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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. -- Joni Mitchell
I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal. -- Suze Orman
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. -- Gerry Adams
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war. -- Johnny Cash
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me -- Ethel Merman
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. -- Ethel Merman
The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process. -- James T. Walsh
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. -- Kate Adie
There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying. -- Ahmed Yassin
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. -- Peter Hain
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. -- Seamus Heaney
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials. -- Harold E. Varmus
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told. -- Adam Beach
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. -- Peter Hain
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. -- Gerry Adams
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. -- Noel Gallagher
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved. -- Chaka Khan
In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate. -- Harold E. Varmus
I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay." -- Ira Glass
Convert to IRA-based system. -- Newt Gingrich
IRAs are intended for retirement. -- Max Baucus
It's time for the IRA to go out of business. -- Mitchell Reiss
Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ? -- Lord Mountbatten
The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one. -- Albert Reynolds
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. -- Jack Higgins
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is. -- Nicholas Haslam
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.] -- Juvenal
You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it's to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy. -- Dave Ramsey
When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it. -- Peter T. King
Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one. -- Enoch Powell
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. -- Doris Lessing
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything, -- Grover Norquist
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. -- Simon Heffer
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. -- Gerry Adams
I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them. -- Peter T. King
Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited. -- James Surowiecki
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. -- Roma Downey
Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same. -- Mitchell Reiss
I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document. -- Suze Orman
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars. -- Lilly Ledbetter
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over. -- Neal Shusterman
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet. -- Adam Beach
It's going to require numerous IRA agents. -- George W. Bush
The GAA is the sporting wing of the IRA. -- Sammy Wilson
Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there. -- Sharon Osbourne
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] -- Ovid
The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed. -- Steven Morrissey
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. -- Grover Norquist
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.] -- Ovid
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. -- Ian Paisley
The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA. -- Sean Kane
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA. -- Martin McGuinness
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The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.] -- Juvenal

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