Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Irvine

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Susan Howell

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

James Williams

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

Russell Simmons

These blacks here today see the poverty and ignorance that is keeping us at a certain place. They know where the forces are, and they will come together and force our government to respond to the poverty and ignorance that's rampant in our country.

George Clooney

This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theatres.

Bruce Levine

There are a lot of revelations in this book. The proposals discussed here provided an early glimmering of how the white South would treat blacks for the next century.

Ed Garvey

Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.

Barry White

Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

Merle Black

Blacks have been migrating into the South in the last decade or so. There are more jobs here. After the 60's, and civil rights, this is where the job growth has been. Because of the lack of unionization, industries have moved back to the South.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Serena Williams

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Timothy Treadwell

I came, I saved, I protected and I studied,

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Mimi Kennedy

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

Heyneke Meyer

He will play, but I'm not saying where.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition. I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition, ... I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

James Hansen

I made the vote predicated on what I thought was right.

Nancy Pelosi

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

Joschka Fischer

You must see the persons who are in charge-persons you can punish or vote for.

Khaleda Zia

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay

Jerry Bell

A lot of legislators have told me they want a vote on it. Some will vote no, but they want a vote on it.

Tucker Carlson

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

John Bryan

I'm really disappointed. I like the idea of voting for the person, not the party.

Alan Keyes

I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.

Neal Boortz

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Jacob Zuma

The results will be very good.

Jacob Zuma

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Noam Chomsky

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Avi Rubin

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.