Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Blunkett

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

Thomas Fuxborg

He says he has lived for a long time in the USA, but does not want to say where. He has worked in Europe, but does not want say where and with what. He is not seeking asylum in Sweden but wants to go to New York.

Werner Herzog

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

Eleanor Acer

It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decision, it's highly unlikely the asylum seeker can reverse it.

Rene Salinas

They were seeking political asylum and trying to avoid persecution in their country. They said they were Christians.

Ron Redmond

We are concerned that the drive to keep the number of asylum seekers as low as possible may be resulting in some genuine refugees being denied the protection they need.

Ron Redmond

Forced recruitment of refugees, especially of minors, who came to Chad to seek asylum is totally unacceptable.

Glenn Greenwald

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

Laura Bush

The people have given us the duty to fend them and that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men, ... In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

Frank Willis

I think that what they were doing was of the nature of what I understand war-profiteering to be about ? which is to get into a chaotic situation and milk every penny out of it you can, as fast as you can, before the opportunity goes away.

Scott Marr

I don't know about a penalty at that time. It was kind of a chaotic situation. But the referee said he clearly did it.

Gary Milhollin

The big question about Pakistan is whether its chaotic political system will produce a failed state, where nobody is sure who's in control of its nuclear arsenal.

David Howell

It was more chaotic than I thought it was going to be, ... Lots of guys talk about the noise when they play Tiger, and it is pretty bad. I'm quite pleased with myself the way I handled myself.

Armando Navarro

For about the first 30 minutes it was chaotic with everybody raising their hands and speaking. Then we got on track.

Mike Wright

It's a wild, chaotic place. You can only rely on yourself.

Tyga

When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Sean Penn

I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Robert E. Lee

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Samuel Johnson

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.