Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Rafael Cruz

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Raila Odinga

The president admits that there should be a meeting between us to discuss pertinent issues on the constitution and the way forward.

Thomas Sowell

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

Robert Anton Wilson

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Stephen Cutler

Destruction of documents is obviously an extremely serious matter. Documents are an essential ingredient in our investigations.

Paul Boyce

Nowhere in any of these previous 2-1/2 years worth of investigations and documents has there been any reference to lions being used in detainee operations.

Saddam Hussein

These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster.

Peter Sellars

Documents that were top secret and never meant to be seen are now set to music.

Tubby Smith

We fully expect him to be back at some point when the NCAA finishes their job. Everything has been documented and processed on our side, and we'll wait for the NCAA to finalize their decision.

Charlie Wood

We've received most of the files from the Highway Patrol and there's one more document we're waiting on.

Sally Smith

What are our choices? ... We can yo-yo diet, which has been documented as unhealthy, or we can try to be as healthy as we can, regardless of our weight.

Attorney Crank

We'll study it some more and look at some of those findings, go pull some of the underlying documents and see what they show or don't show.

Richard Butler

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

Allison Teeters

The teachers liked the fact there are so many resources at their fingertips because the Web site has links to a lot of other sites that could be used to expand what they're focusing on.

John Clayton

Right now, there aren't enough players to expand from 32 teams. They're having a hard enough time getting a team in Los Angeles. You and I will be long gone by the time they go to Las Vegas.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Bruce Slatten

We got out by 10-12 points, but couldn't expand on that.

Greg Miller

There's room to greatly expand the market. But first we have to prime the pump.

George Cochran

We have to expand our recruiting base, and we need to increase the scholarships we have.

Carol Moore

We have to expand and we have to do it with a hotel.

Andrew Sukawaty

Basically, it is going to expand our services and extend the life of our service to the end of the next decade,

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Hu Jintao

The Sino-Russian strategic and co-operative partnership has kept growing this year and showed great vigor,

Arthur Koestler

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Calvin Coolidge

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

Bryant H. McGill

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Charlene Li

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Elbert Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Aristotle

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Ben Hecht

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Immanuel Kant

The only thing permanent is change.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its 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.

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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Samuel Alito

Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.