Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Dave Oberle

We've been up and down like a yo-yo. We're in the same boat we were last year. We let some games get away that we felt we could have won. Maybe we got some that could have been given away, too. It balances out. We've struggled here of late.

Steven Adler

I think we're all saying the same thing, ... We want effective checks and balances in the use of data.

Lisa Graves

It gives a nod toward checks and balances without fixing the most fundamental flaws in the Patriot Act.

Ann Beeson

In the name of national security, the Bush administration has eroded the rule of law and the system of checks and balances in the United States, both fundamental principles in any democracy. In our America, we will not tolerate illegal spying or torture. The ACLU calls on the Human Rights committee to join us in our effort to hold the U.S. government accountable.

Janette Fennell

If you are the dad and you always take the kid to daycare and maybe mom has to take the kid to daycare that day, just have some good checks and balances in place to ensure that the child arrives at the destination safely.

Jeremy Grantham

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Julian Huxley

I'm not your biggest crash-up merchant at outside centre, so Lloyd balances out the backline.

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it is very important not to make a big deal out of it, because it is not, ... President Bush is always welcome to California.

Tony Juniper

He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.

Roger Kubarych

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

Bernie Sanders

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Greg Valliere

I think Bush would be a clear favorite.

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Kenneth Pollack

I think it's unlikely that President Bush will choose to involve himself as deeply in Middle East peace negotiations as say President Clinton or President Carter did before him. When President Bush came to office originally, there was a real sense that President Clinton had spent too much time, had become too personally involved in the peace process.

Tom Campbell

I think it's pretty clear that if Governor Bush does well in California, it's going to help the statewide ticket,

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Norv Turner

keep coaching it. We had a couple of calls that were real close in terms of the 5-yard (chuck) rule. It's right at 41/2 or 5 yards. We just have to understand it is going to be called right close there, and if you are in a collision with a guy, you've got to get off him.

Michael Penn

I suspect the gospel of Judas was not one of the close calls in this process.

Gerhard Richter

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Ben Beakes

Having said that, she is leaving all doors open. She has received many calls in support prior to the congresswoman making her decision.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her excitement and enthusiasm and passion for the game, it makes people smile. I can't tell you the number of letters and e-mails and phone calls we have gotten from people that have just said how she brightens their day. ... I feel like the way we play and having a player like Ivory sells the game of basketball.

Chris Villarrial

I think it's big, ... The communication is there, we don't have to make as many calls at the line. We can pretty much look at each other and know what's going on.

Scott Knutson

I was disappointed in the calls near the end. I think I heard a whistle, and the girls on the ice thought they heard a whistle, too, but they can't do anything about it. South St. Paul showed why they are a true champion. Being 55 seconds away from a championship is disappointing, and it is tough on our girls.

Sandra Cerda

We're prepared to do that. This is what God calls us to do, to help others in time of need.

Gil Gutknecht

It is not my definition of compassion to simply write checks from the federal government and expect our children and grandchildren

Eric Smith

We made some different checks here and there, ... In the third quarter we were saying 'It's on us, if we don't let them score we win.'

Tom Greer

In the process of checks and balances, we missed it,

Grant Wistrom

If you are looking for silver linings, I think that went pretty darn well. It was a much better job of getting our checks out there on defense than we had all of last year.

Kenny Guinn

The checks are in the mail, ... This is a historic day in Nevada: the first time the state has returned surplus tax money to its rightful owners, the people.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

J. C. Watts

A holy reverence checks our speech, And praise sits silent on our tongues

Betty Nostdahl

All members look to see what stocks we could be interested in adding. The financial partner contacts our broker prior to the meeting and checks on the prices of stock and how we're doing.

Uttam Khobragade

The Bhopal laboratory, after checks and rechecks, confirmed in no uncertain terms that it was avian influenza, H1N5.

Greg Shaheen

Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.

Charlie Brotman

I think it's going to be good, but I don't know if the committee has had enough time to make it spectacular,

Rich Herman

I think the efforts of the zoning committee are very much appreciated.

Steven Wood

Labor markets are very strong and payroll employment should rise by 200,000 or more in February. The Federal Open Market Committee will continue to raise interest rates.

Dennis Whitling

The people on this committee need to be willing to discuss anything and everything. Leave your sensitivity at home.

James Knightley

We're probably going to get two members who go for a cut. The data isn't pointing in one direction enough for the rest of the committee to go with them just yet.

John Carney

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

Charles Grassley

I think that the states will conclude that the committee proposals will help them better serve their beneficiaries, but in the event a state doesn't, this kind of flexibility may be helpful to states such as Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi right now,

Susanna Montezemolo

It is ironic that after a year in which over 55 million Americans' identities were put at risk through preventable data breaches, the House Financial Services Committee would repeal state laws that have protected consumers from identity theft.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Frank Robinson

Hector has been a nice, pleasant surprise with another great effort on his part tonight. He has pitched four good starts. I don't know how he does it at this stage of the season. He seems to thrive on it.

Steve Kellar

This was a good game for us in that everybody played and everybody scored. It was a good, solid effort on everybody's part.

Dwane Casey

He's just made a concerted effort going to the boards. It's called him being a great player.

George Haddow

It comes down to leadership, and this effort is without a leader. I don't think they understand how to do this at the top level.

Nate Altenhofen

I was disappointed in our focus and our effort in the second half. I think we got complacent.

Ed Thompson

The people started using it unauthorized. It was a construction site. We had to make some extra effort to secure the site to keep the public from using it because they were getting in the way.

Mark Cooke

We've been very competitive, especially at home. So far I'm pleased with our effort at home, but I'd like to see us play on the road better.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

Eula Biss

In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.

Joseph Wu

The foundation for the 'five noes' policy is being eroded by China.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Source Unknown

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

Donald Harrison

What does the state government know that is preventing them from going forward? They know something we don't know.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Bob Nicholson

We feel if we hold it in two venues, it's better for the player.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Mariano Puerta

I have not taken any illegal substances as reported. I was suspended two years ago and would never do anything like that again.

Brian Walsh

Any allegation that Representative Ney did anything illegal or improper is false, ... It appears, unfortunately, that Representative Ney was one of the many people defrauded.

Paul Streitz

Danbury is where the illegal problem is the worst.

Debbie Smith

It will be illegal to haze, period. It's just wrong, and it's got to be stopped.

Bill Butler

They know the victims are vulnerable; they are illegal immigrants

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Jay Ryan

The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Jason Young

Law of averages. We've played pretty well in some of them and had some not go our way.

Rev Musyimi

Law enforcement officers were also seen to be wanting by the public.

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Clement Stone

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

William Lloyd Garrison

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Zig Ziglar

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Richard M. Nixon

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Larry Jones

You used to spend a lot of your time with a ruler in your hand.

Jason Schmidt

It's sore. I shouldn't have pitched. The rule was, if I feel anything I'd come out of the game.

Lamar Alexander

it may come to that, and we must not rule it out.

Kim Collins

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Patrick O'Brian

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Yanni

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Mike Tomlin

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

Nora Roberts

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.