Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahathir Mohamad

ASEAN must resist and reject such attempts at coercion,

Anil Sahin

As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Stuart Levy

Bacteria are not going to be destroyed. They've been here, they've seen dinosaurs come and go... so any attempt to sterilize our home is fraught with failure.

John Eade

Price will probably end up hooking up with two family members who are unhappy with the board's performance, and will most likely attempt to recommend new directors on the board.

Judith Anderson

Personally I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.

Orlando Foote

Our sense here has been that the (desert) site was a bookmark and an attempt to demonstrate due diligence. It was never taken seriously.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Carlos Pena

(Bachelet) wasn't perfect ... her smile was reserved, she was firm on one or two basic points. Nothing more. It was just enough -- right at the edge -- so as not to break the spell.

Andrew Brunette

As players, I don't think that's any of our business. There's nothing we can do about it. This is between Marian and the Wild organization. It's not between any of the players. We basically come to play and we still have a job to do. The season is not going to stop. We have a job to do and we can't worry about his situation. That's something that he believes in and he's making a stand for it.

Gene Luen Yang

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Scott Long

As mayor of Warsaw, President Kaczynski opposed the right of lesbian and gay people to basic freedoms and equal respect. As president, he will determine whether Poland protects rights or chips away at them. Europe is waiting for the answer.

Jeff Lindsay

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

Eric Benker

That's where the mentors come in. We make a commitment for at least one year to meet with a specific student weekly. We shoot hoops, play board games, help out a little bit with homework if needed basically we become a friend.

Ed Garcia

Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows. That basically locks in the humidity.

Arkady Volozh

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Michael Eisner

As far as the essential part of our business we're doing great,

David Cheng

A second license in a matter of two weeks further illustrates the potential of our product in Europe, ... The fact that a government-run lottery has chosen to do business with Pegasus Gaming further validates us as a player on the world stage.

Geoff Dupaix

As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as efficiently as possible. It's going to happen in incremental steps. This is just the next step, but it's a very important step because there is a lot of traffic that goes through and around Provo, which is a major business center.

Bruce Kasman

As destructive as past storms have been, they didn't leave an imprint on the U.S. business cycle,

Abbe Lowell

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

Joe Lieberman

A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth,

Mike Cooke

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Roman Cizdyn

As expected, it's redoing its portfolio to focus on the profitable business and that's why there's a continued collapse in individual pensions. It has to focus on profitability; that's clearly what it's about now.

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Yasser Arafat

a victory for our people, for all the free and proud people and for every freedom movement in the world.

Juergen Peters

That people don't want to give this away of their own free will goes without saying.

Kurt Opsahl

That was a big win for free speech.

Shaukat Aziz

Progress on Kashmir would pave the way for free trade between the two countries,

Henry Ward Beecher

On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.

Kate Ford

Do you miss it? What are you doing with your free time?

Sarah Olson

Definitely, our free throw shooting sealed the win for us tonight. The girls really stepped up in a lot of pressure.

Chris Holt

Device-makers use free logistics as a way to compete. The down side is that doctors, because they are not paying, have no incentive to manage inventory tightly.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Claudia Schiffer

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Hans Berger

In Germany I am not so famous.

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Frank Schallenberger

That was nice. It was high time for the German insurers to start paying out more to shareholders.

Joshua Cohen

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

Wolfgang Nowak

For the German left, it's an unbearable truth.

Georg Baselitz

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Arthur Ashe

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you feel helpless, help someone.

Booker T. Washington

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Arlen Specter

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Ben Schott

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

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

James Foley

I could probably sell it now for $300,000, but where would I go?

Shane Smith

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

Kay Granger

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

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

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.

Kevin O'Hara

This is being billed as a seminal speech. I think this will be a big thing.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Dick Riley

Boy, what a speech, ... He made one of those wonderful, wonderful speeches to his people.

Rudy Meredith

You don't keep that speech in your back pocket.

Sam Mendes

There's no such thing as speech that is free.

Ann Coulter

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Ann Coulter

They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

Aeschylus

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Sergei Krikalev

Thank you very much to those who worked with us.

Evo Morales

Thank you very much. I'd like to visit you, Mr. President.

Marge Whaley

Thank you very much for getting that resolved.

Julian Casablancas

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the deafening roar.

G. H. Hardy

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Ishinosuke Uwano

Thank you for waiting for me for a long time.

Jim Fuller

Thank you for this consideration of the residents.