Illegitimate Quotes

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. - Lyndon B. Johnson

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. - Michael Badnarik

What the United States did this morning against Iraq was illegitimate. - Tariq Aziz

What makes complaining illegitimate is that you're predicting who's going to be good and bad. Last year, who would have thought the American League Central would have been so tough? After awhile, you accept that it comes with the territory. - Tony La Russa

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate. - Matthew Shipp

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? - Nikita Khrushchev

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis. - Kevin McDonald

We must sternly warn that those with ill-gotten wealth and those who use illegitimate means to reap staggering profits, destroy the order of the socialist market economy and disrupt market order, will meet legal punishment. - Xinhua News Agency

We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it's rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn't agree with the way we seek grant funding, that doesn't make advocacy illegitimate. Nor does it make theirs legitimate, their attack legitimate. - Bob Johnson