Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Bob Conway

To be honest with you, I was surprised she missed them. She's shooting very well. I asked her after the game, 'Jen, how did you miss the last two?' and she said, 'I knew we won and I couldn't control myself.' Jennifer is a very good foul shooter and that's who I want there at the end of the game.

Manal Fakhoury

To be honest, we've been asked by many different groups would we do a fund-raiser in our home, but we had long ago during the construction phase said the first event would be for United Way. United Way helps so many different groups and agencies.

Gary Vest

To be honest, I just went brain dead. I was not asked to talk about projects, and I was not prepared.

Eric Greene

Toward the end of the trip, a Wisconsin church group asked us if we could send some people on an emergency basis to help finish off the field reconstruction. That night the town teams were scheduled to play their first games since the hurricane and the rebuilding effort was running behind.

Jefri Sirait

Violence could occur, which is why we have asked for extra protection from the police. We don't want to let our investors down.

Kenneth Lieberthal

Washington has specifically asked Taiwan not to hold its exercises now, ... So, by going ahead, (Taiwan's leaders) may be signaling the United States that they have the initiative in their hands.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Ann Richards

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

Robert Bork

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Robert Bork

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

Thomas More

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Thomas Paine

Government is a necessary evil