Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

You cannot succeed in this effort if you're not willing to recognize the enormous contribution the Iraqis are increasingly making to their own future.

Chris Dodd

Now, there's no suggestion the vice president is guilty of any crime here whatsoever. But if our standard is just criminality, then we're never going to get to the bottom of this,

Al Gore

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Greg Knox

I think when you look at the bottom line, offense scored and defense didn't. (It was) 6-0: We won.

Linda Halsey

I think the bottom line is why can't we have the same rights as married people?

Michael Pietsch

Joseph Wambaugh is a hero to today's crime writers, and 'Hollywood Station' will school them all: to this day, no one writes about cops' lives with his force and immediacy.

Janet Reno

What we have is an obligation to investigate whether a crime has been committed,

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Timothy Lord

Here's a woman who confesses to this horrible crime - what she did to my father, who we love very much.

Voltaire

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

Kevin Wilcox

I think the elaborateness of the crime itself was quite unique and extensive. It seemed to be a full-time job for these two individuals.

Charles Mathews

There is no crime scene, there are no forensics and we have no witnesses.

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

William J. Clinton

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

Tony Garcia

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Rivers Cuomo

I never feel guilty about liking music.

Sandra Bernhard

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

John Burke

If you want to say Roger's guilty of being nasty and distasteful, that's okay. He wanted attention.

David Blunkett

I'm guilty of a mistake and I'm paying the price of it,

O. J. Simpson

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

Joe Rogers

We serve all races, ... We're just a target. We're not guilty and never have been.

Glen Sather

It was like yelling at your own kid, and you know how guilty you feel after that.

Kris Allen

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

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,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

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.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Arlen Specter

The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Jennifer Duffy

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

George Whitehouse

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

Ted Koppel

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Malcolm Bradbury

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Tony Campolo

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Julian Baggini

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.