Robert Lansing Quotes

Robert Lansing — American Politician born on October 17, 1864, died on October 30, 1928

Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and Conservative Democratic politician who served as Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. Before U.S. involvement in the war, Lansing vigorously advocated in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations. He later advocated U.S. participation in World War I, negotiated the Lansing–Ishii Agreement with Japan in 1917 and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919... (wikipedia)

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.