Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Mauer

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,

David Franks

You're going to look to see who the district attorney and police have talked to and you're going to talk to them yourself. The idea here is you don't want to rely on the work that's already been done by the government, you want to do it yourself.

Jerry Brown

You need the experience, you need the broad range of understanding that the complexity and the power of the Attorney General's Office truly requires.

Kenneth Langone

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

Judy Smith

Every American has the right to and the expectation of privacy in their private conversations. The decision by the state attorney to impanel a grand jury to investigate Linda Tripp and perhaps others concerning the recordings of private conversations will help establish that our cherished right of privacy cannot be trampled on.

Ed Koch

Eliot is the right guy to change Albany. As attorney general, he demonstrated a real commitment to reforming institutions from Wall Street to Main Street and I look forward to watching him work on reforming state government.

Andrea Tantaros

During his five years as an attorney general in Massachusetts, Bill Weld obtained over 100 convictions in public corruption cases and successfully prosecuted the top members of the organized crime families of New England.

Rick Hernandez

Before I make any kind of judgment on this, I'd better consult with the Attorney General, but there are a couple of things that might be questionable, and makes this a contractual issue,

Bill Gross

Even our attorney in Valley City is a volunteer.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Steve Tasker

The Buffalo Bills are a punch line. We were always the team that couldn't win the big game. But we kept getting to the big game.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

Xiao Yang

As of July 1, 2006, all the second-instance trials of death sentence cases shall be heard in open court.

Gary Williams

Osteoporosis in men is extremely unrecognized. Too many fail to realize that 20 percent of osteoporosis cases in this country are men.

Jaya Arjuna

Actually, there have 788 graft cases in North Sumatra reported by people to the KPK, but the commission has decided that only 163 of them should be followed up on. It really does mean there is a huge graft problem in North Sumatra.

Jasvinder Sanghera

I've seen cases where girls were drugged and taken to the airport.

John Olson

I've seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.

Steve Squyres

It was a hot, violent place with volcanic explosions and impacts. Water was around, perhaps localized hot springs in some cases and trace amounts of water in other cases.

David Goldstein

The SEC numbers are a low show - and it's all to the detriment of U.S. investors who will be losing an investment opportunity and in other cases losing U.S. legal protection.

Anthony Ricco

These cases teach us, me and you, how important and how cherished the rights are that we have. After all, it is those rights that were under attack.

Ted Mayer

These cases should be tried individually because the specific causation issues turn on individual facts.

Nathan Gonzales

Does corruption make it closer? I think it does. But Democrats still think this district is tough.

Sylvia Schenk

Corruption is not just a German issue, but an international one.

Stephen Harper

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

Jim Letten

Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

Allan Hoffenblum

Look, the muscle magazine thing was just stupid and he doesn't want to talk about his past womanizing. He's made a lot of mistakes, but corruption is not one of them.

Iyad Allawi

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Joseph King

Most police corruption is to look the other way, and to protect someone -- not to do jobs.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Steve Parker

This is an extremely serious crime where the victims have been threatened with extreme violence.

Edward Garnier

This Government has tied our police up in so much red tape that instead of being on the streets dealing with crime they now spend half their time at their desks.

Gerhard Schroeder

This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,

Jim Carlin

This crime can be solved here in Calhoun County. There's a lot of people that know what happened.

Jeff Hawkins

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

E. Hurley

This is a remarkable development for families with children,

Camille Moute

You see other people with their families after the games, and you wish you could have that. So I turned my teammates into my family. Now I am with my family on the court.

Don Cherry

You're going to say 'what about other kids?' They get hurt in other sports but I think it would have to be hockey and I know at least five or six other guys that it would just help the families so much.

Ron Artest

You really feel for those families that lost everything. Hopefully we'll put on a good show for everyone at the game.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

Dudley North

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

George Allen

Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers with their children, thank you for your great leadership.

David Kaufman

We want to offer families the opportunity to rehabilitate their communities.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Tim Pease

That's when we're at our best, when five guys are playing defense, five guys are running and we're sharing the ball.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Granth Sahib

Tell me, without the worship, who has ever obtained the supreme status?

Michael Rains

What we're saying is, who are the real cheaters? They are the ones who are using these illegally obtained materials.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

Frank Zappa

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Harry Bridges

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

Viviana Diaz

Pinochet is not as sick as they say. And it has been proved (Friday) with the kind of reception they organized for him.

Kim Harrison

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.