Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Gillespie

His long record in the Senate is one of advocating policies that would weaken our national security.

Ron Kind

If you are advocating a spending increase or a tax cut somewhere, you have got to find an offset to pay for it to maintain that balance.

Aamir Khan

I've been advocating it as far back as 1994-95.

Eric Schneider

Advocating obnoxiously is not a crime. You will hear that Kevin was very passionate about animal rights - treating animals with kindness and respect and without unnecessary cruelty. Kevin is being persecuted for these very beliefs.

Greg Berlanti

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Dick Cheney

very publicly lobbying the Congress of the United States advocating the use of terror.

Robert Adams

There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either.

Dan Mclaughlin

Sen. Nelson has been strongly advocating the replacement vehicle be assembled at the Cape because from his view it is the right way to do it.

Tom DeLay

Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.

Megan Snow

He was actually very cooperative. We spoke with him and to another person who spoke on behalf of him sometimes.

Steven Brill

I think you'll see a lot of third parties buying cards on behalf of their best customers.

Tasia Scolinos

We're pleased to be able to move forward with this important case on behalf of the thousands of victims and their families.

Ed Gillespie

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.

Prince Albert

Today, I'm here to express on behalf of my father, my family, and the principality of Monaco, my sorrow and sympathy to the people of New York and to the American people for the September 11 tragedy.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

Chuck Schumer

I know that a location has already been chosen for every Super Bowl until 2007, but New York has suffered the devastating economic impact of September 11, both on behalf of the entire nation and worse than any other city in the nation.

Tom Donohue

I'm not going down there to cheerlead. My plan is to lay out, on behalf of the business community, the concerns that we have about what needs to be done to get the economy back on the right path.

J. Horton

The last thing we should want is to have a politician campaigning on behalf of a drug, ... It's a crazy way to make what should be a scientific decision.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Newt Gingrich

undermining the core values of civility -- and it's time they were stopped by a society that values free speech enough to protect it.

Nick Nolte

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Shyam Saran

We look forward to the US Congress passing the legislation to enable full civil nuclear energy cooperation between the two countries early next year,

Tom Inman

All things being equal, I'm glad we won by two points in overtime rather than 32. I'm disturbed we lost a 16-point lead.

Mary Mulrenan

As a police department, we're disturbed and concerned. It's a horrific finding.

Michael Grant

We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.

Ann Cooper

We're disturbed to see the number of jailed journalists rise, and we're particularly troubled that the list of worst abusers now includes Ethiopia and the United States.

B. F. Skinner

We're disturbed by that. You want to go out and respect the opponent and respond to that. We didn't take it as a challenge. We just went with the flow. Quite honestly, the game's over. We have to get ready for league play.

Joan Miles

We're very disturbed by this incident and are exploring what we can do to ensure that this won't happen again.

Elliot Mintz

The timing of this is macabre. (Ono) thinks it's outrageous. ... It sends out a message to other disturbed people that killing is a way to fame.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy, ... But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

David Bowman

San Antonio had to rely on the hold harmless provision this year.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

James Altucher

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Malcolm Turnbull

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.