Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Bilbray

What we don't do is give amnesty and reward people for breaking the law.

Jean Ross

If you do an amnesty plan every five years, people will hold on to their money rather than pay taxes, because they know they will be able to pay up without penalties. The fact that we had a successful amnesty last year argues that we should wait at least a decade or probably 20 years to have another.

Don Stewart

It's a matter of giving amnesty to 8 million people or giving amnesty to 12 million people. It's still amnesty to millions of people.

Eric Olson

Nevertheless, Amnesty International welcomes today's actions, as even the seemingly minor details in these documents may help shed light on the secrecy surrounding the detainees' cases.

Jan Brewer

And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot sustain that kind of activity. Bottom line is it's a backdoor to amnesty and I don't believe the American people support that.

Jan Brewer

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

P. Chidambaram

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

John Hammond

That's all we can do, watch what happens and see who is out there. It's going to be interesting to see who's left after the amnesty deadline. Then things progress from there.

Marco Rubio

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Strunk, Jr.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Jonathan Wong

In social studies they give you the baseline. (In the geographic bee) they have specific details they look for.

Charles Ramsey

I'm not getting into the details of what we know, when we first found out and all that sort of thing. That would be inappropriate,

Dennis Smith

It's under investigation and there really aren't any details we can release.

Herb Guenther

It's still fragile. The devil is still in the details, so we're putting the details together.

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Silvio Berlusconi

I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,

Emmett Brown

The documentation was very well put together. It was comprehensive and left no doubt about what the people signing the documents saw and witnessed.

Michael Hulley

As you saw I only got some of the documents this morning.

Stephen Cutler

Destruction of documents is obviously an extremely serious matter. Documents are an essential ingredient in our investigations.

Paul Boyce

Nowhere in any of these previous 2-1/2 years worth of investigations and documents has there been any reference to lions being used in detainee operations.

Saddam Hussein

These documents are forged. I have never done anything to a youngster.

Peter Sellars

Documents that were top secret and never meant to be seen are now set to music.

Attorney Crank

We'll study it some more and look at some of those findings, go pull some of the underlying documents and see what they show or don't show.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

DeLoss Dodds

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

Ruben Escudero

There were some small, minor things that needed to be upgraded, and we complied with that.

Jon Rauch

It was a very minor surgery. It was more a cleanup than anything else. It wasn't like a labrum or rotator cuff tear. I bounced back quickly and I'm ready to go.

Bob Bowlsby

There could be more to it than we know, but I would be shocked if it is more than a minor deal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be thine own privy counsellor.

D. H. Lawrence

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

Harrison Salisbury

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Katherine Liell

We embraced, we shed some tears together, and we spoke how it's the first step in the right direction.