Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Singer

Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist.

Howard Dean

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.

Mathew Staver

Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

Debra Marcus

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Tom DeLay

It's an activist judge. He's trying to defend his position that's indefensible,

Ben Lieberman

The world is full of tradeoffs, and sometimes 'renewable power' activists fail to recognize that. Solar energy collectors must displace a tremendous amount of natural landscape to produce any significant amount of energy. And anything less requires a great deal of financial expenditures for very little and very inconsistent power.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Nina Easton

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Chris Mangum

Guy is an attacking wrestler. He is tall and long and creates match-up problems for other kids in his class. Most of the kids are three to four inches shorter and he uses his arms and legs to his advantage.

Julia Allen

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.

Jarrod Kerr

I think the bank (RBA) will welcome that with open arms and it will further confirm their idea to sit on the sidelines at this stage and ride out the blip in oil prices.

Gerard Bisceglia

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Dick Pound

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

Sergei Ivanov

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,

Jaswant Singh

There is no arms race in South Asia.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Michael King

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Jeff Bingaman

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

George Bell

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars,

Jordan Barowitz

The administration will aggressively pursue the billions of dollars that the state owes New York City schools and our children. If the state does not fulfill its obligations to the Department of Education capital construction plan, the opening of critically needed new schools and vital renovations will be delayed.

David Trone

Its track record is outstanding, they've earned tens of billions of dollars over the last several years and they've never come close to having a negative trading line. I'd say that's reasonable risk-reward.

James Gattuso

Congress was more concerned about constituents waking up in the morning sometime in 2009 and finding out that their televisions didn't work, and they couldn't get the sports show that they wanted. They were more concerned about that than they were about reducing the deficit or keeping taxes low or saving billions of dollars for the taxpayers.

Jerry Taylor

It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.

Jan Egeland

It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years,

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bill Cheney

I think it is clear that, whatever the economic outlook was on Monday, the outlook is shakier now, and there are stronger arguments for cutting rates.

Vladimir Putin

I think it is logical, clear and evident,

Joe Gallagher

I actually had shirts printed up for the kids that say F.O.O.L because as linemen they usually don?t get the credit they deserve, so we have to stick together like a fraternity. The line did an excellent job clear the way tonight.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Tim Read

He connects with people really well and shows when he really likes someone. He can also make it clear to us what he wants.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Keith Baird

has always been a kind of clearing house for power and influence in Italian finance and business. It's a place where things happen, if you like.

Kenneth Chenault

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job, ... That's what I'm here to do, and so that's why I'm concentrating on this right now.

Sandra Buckler

There's a natural pursuit of elected officials which I think is healthy and normal.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

David Harsanyi

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

Rob Woodall

Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators would be difficult to contact if they were named by our state legislatures?

Barbara Castle

Do you know one of the most interesting things is, when we lost office in '51 we did so on a higher vote that we'd been elected to in '45.

Donald Powell

I've talked to people in all walks of life, from elected officials ... to the guy who repaired my shoes.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Nancy Pelosi

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,

Nancy Pelosi

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

John Holub

I haven't seen anything mentioned on that at all.

Ian Mooney

I have some others that have called to inquire. I'm anticipating that they would be sending in their applications. We haven't received those yet, so I can't mention those until we receive their information.

Mick Davis

And now, for what you've been waiting for, I'll mention the word Falconbridge.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Dusty Auxier

Twenty-seven points is a lot to give up in a half, not to mention in one quarter.

Mickey Arthur

We don't really want to mention his name any more.

Abraham Lehrer

We will not mention this story to the pope today.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Tom Anderson

Our official position is that we are opposed to the inn.

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Sergei Kuprianov

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

Alan Nero

We have not received any official notice. It is all still at a standstill.

Dylan Penn

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Sadaharu Oh

Before speaking about whether to turn it down or not, I don't think I've got an official offer.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Marc Ostrofsky

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

John Carmack

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well...

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Guy Kawasaki

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Michael Lombardi

This is not about justice, this is not about the law. This is about politics. There is a lot at stake here for us.

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Sander Levin

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Ken Miller

Why is this a big deal? What is at stake is, literally, everything.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Tony Blair

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

Rand Paul

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Hillary Clinton

The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Zoe Saldana

I never really watched the TV series.

Jamie Blackley

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

Henry Rollins

I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

Tim Winter

This is just what the TV marketplace needed.

Jussi Jokinen

It's been on TV too much. I didn't want to do that.

Mayim Bialik

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

Kris Allen

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

Elia Kazan

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Rick Riordan

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

Regis Philbin

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Brian Gionta

I just worry about the wins right now.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.