I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. – Joe Barton
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. – James Reston
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority. – James Fenimore Cooper
My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don’t see a lot of that in the state capitol. – Kyrsten Sinema
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. – Marquis de Lafayette
I think it’s common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is. – Jed S. Rakoff
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. – Rene Descartes
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. – Robert Taft
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. – Robertson Davies
I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation. – Russell Pearce
Turning one’s back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. – Sean Penn
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. – Sally Ride
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That’s why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification. – Robert Gottlieb
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense. – Richard P. Feynman
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. – Samuel Butler
I’m a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate. – Vince McMahon
