Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Kevin McCarthy

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Pat Oliphant

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

George Casey

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

Roy Moore

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Will Rothhaar

What's the fun in approaching something closed-minded? I'm very specific; if dialogue is too on-the-nose, or there's a lot of telling and not showing, I'll talk to my manager and let them know the problems I have with it. But, I always go in with fresh eyes. The first pass just needs to be about figuring out little things here and there.

Bruce Feiler

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bill Hader

If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.

Sue Berkowitz

We hadn't gotten the momentum we hoped for until now. If something gets introduced and we at least get a dialogue going, that's a very positive move.

George Robertson

Today was a good day for resuming the dialogue and discussion that forms part of the NATO-Russia relationship, ... We've moved from permafrost into slightly softer ground.

Ismail Haniyeh

We will resolve these matters through dialogue when we are in government. All I can say is no police officer will lose his job and no police salary will be cut.

Jon Daniels

We've had enough dialogue that something could happen.

Richard Boucher

We've looked over time for a number of things, practical steps by the parties to defuse tension. We've looked for a dialogue between them, if possible, to resolve the issues.

James Foley

We have been urging such a dialogue, but in our view, an escalating military confrontation makes such a dialogue far more difficult.

Tang Jiaxuan

We hope for a political solution within in the framework of the U.N. Security Council.

Ahmad Fawzi

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Abdullah Gul

We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities,

Ray Krauss

The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.

Maurice Allais

The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

Sophia Amoruso

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Vladimir Putin

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Jon Daniels

We want to let him get a sense of where we're at and the framework of some of the ideas we're going to mull over the next month.

Lee Myung-bak

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

C. S. Lewis

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Robert Wagner

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Albert Einstein

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.