Famous Quotes & Sayings

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Mitch Daniels

I'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it,

Willie Williams

I have no idea yet; I know I'll be evaluating the entire agency. One of the first things I'll be doing is making contact with the citizens of this fine town.

Derrick Spinks

I know they've had some problems with their heavy equipment. The judge has said they're going to repair everything they've damaged. I think they're willing to be good citizens and keep the roads repaired also.

Tony McNulty

their preparedness to become citizens, in keeping with the language requirement as well.

Greg Stumbo

The federal prescription drug plan was touted as a measure to help seniors and save the states money. Instead, it's failing our most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens, and it's failing the taxpayers of Kentucky.

Dan Bartlett

The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Neil Gaiman

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Maria Montessori

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Mark Leyner

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Georges Pompidou

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Gerhard Schroder

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Gregory Benford

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.