Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Theodore Roethke

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

Margaret Sanger

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Margaret Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Margaret Mead

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

Rand Paul

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Richard Holbrooke

one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...

Martin Tauber

I feel like a criminal now, but I am not a criminal.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Trey Gowdy

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Terry Pratchett

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Sen. Aronberg

It says you can't put signs on the right of way, but there are also penalties for people who steal other people's signs.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.