Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Warfield

Pataki might think ethanol will win him farm votes in Iowa. But when he's carrying the weight of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights, a boutique tax cut for alternative fuels won't put much in Pataki's tank for a presidential race.

Steve Levitt

All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted children are at risk for crime, legalized abortion reduced the number of unwanted children. Therefore, legalized abortion should have reduced crime.

Eric Bolling

Incentivizing more clinics to incentivize the young women, to may or may not want to have an abortion to say, you know what, if we talk her into an abortion, we'll be able to sell it for 75 bucks up to 300 bucks.

Nancy Keenan

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

Judie Brown

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

Mitt Romney

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

Pope Francis

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Mother Teresa

If abortion isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Mother Teresa

The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Michelle Gomez

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.

George Herbert Mead

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

Jack Camper

What we favor is everybody coming out of the shadows, paying a fine and becoming part of a legal guest-worker program. That would not necessarily take away their right to apply for citizenship, but what it does say is you can be part of a guest-worker program and get in line with everybody else for citizenship.

Craig Thompson

I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.

Michael Jackson

We're in the planning. Classes will start late this year or early next year. We want to train people with viable marketing skills and rudiments in entrepreneurial skills. You learn and apply it however you best need it.

Charles Grassley

We've got to make sure the unemployment program has enough flexibility in it to make sure the people that apply for it are going to get the benefits, and I suppose at some point look and see if there needs to be any extension,

Richie Zisk

I thanked them for their effort and playing hard the whole season. Hopefully they learned a few things this year they can apply toward the rest of their careers.

Anthony Chan

I think this employment report shows that the laws of gravity do apply to monetary policy,

Bruce Harrill

I think we are going to see many more grants in the future that the city of Waynesville is going to apply for and receive.

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Robert Rossiter

Our company is fortunate to have in place, one of the strongest financial teams in the industry, including Jim, who previously served as Lear's chief financial officer and has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Lewis Altfest

If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.

Greg Shaheen

Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.

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.

Jim Webb

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

Charles Schumer

If you held the vote today, she would not get a majority either in the Judiciary Committee or the floor, ... there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now.

Arlen Specter

If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals ... I think that's a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people,

Ehud Barak

If violence is reduced, and the fact-finding American-led committee goes to work, ... we are ready to go (to the United States) and help put an end to violence.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I regret the loss of lives in a way that should not have happened, due to suffocation. I will order a committee to be set up to investigate the situation,

Paul Sarbanes

I regretted that the federal open market committee today continued to take interest rates up. You know, growth in the fourth quarter of last year dropped to just about one percent, the worst since 2002 in terms of quarterly growth in the economy. So, we're concerned about that.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Diane Forden

For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade .

Syd Kitson

It confirmed people are looking for a community. A safe neighborhood where there are a lot of eyes on the kids.

Dick Thompson

We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

Shinobu Asagoe

I thought the (seventh) game was finished and when I askedthe umpire, she confirmed it, ... Then they started counting the points and nobody could rememberthe third one, so in the end it looked like it was all my fault.

Phil Garner

He'll go back there just to confirm this is a tweak.

Kevin Gould

CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.

Edward Kennedy

I hope I am proven wrong about John Roberts. I have been proven wrong before on my confirmation votes. I regret my vote to confirm Justice Scalia, even though he, too, like Judge Roberts was a nice person and a very smart Harvard lawyer.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

James Johnson

He knew I was about to stop him. This time I will finish him early, ... I got tired of him parading around like he was the future of the division. Come Oct. 15 I will stop him in his tracks. He may never fight again.

Jimmy Teague

He's a freshman that's got a lot of potential. We were hoping he could use this year and Erik as a tutor to get him ready, but he's going to get right into the fight (today). We'll find out how he's going to react.

Suzi Babos

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Shannon Flaherty

I think it's a sense of our guy is under attack. Here is a man that has fought for us in the last 30 years. Now it's our time to fight for him.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Jennifer Pralgo

The rainfall is going to be a major major issue and it could intensify because it is moving so slow.

Kip Meek

There is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Van Jones

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

Saint Basil

She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason..

Saint Augustine

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Kevin Hassett

It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.

Ronald Steele

To see Kennedy Winston - the most talented player I've ever played with - not get picked was a reality check.

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

R. Robinson

Thirteen and three. He's a 13-3 quarterback. You're going to just sit him down? That man led us to 13-3, so why would you sit him down?

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

If President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

William Whewell

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Barbara Ehrenreich

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

Madeleine L'Engle

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

John F. Kennedy

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.