Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Autor

The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.

Erik Autor

The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare, ... This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.

Bill White

As mayor, I avoid commenting on state and federal laws and policies I do not influence, ... I intend to vote 'no' on the proposed state constitutional amendment to protest its use as a wedge issue.

Dan Leistikow

Rather than make tough choices on spending, the Assembly decided to pass an amendment in the middle of the night without any public hearing and without any study of what the proposal actually does.

Katherine Kennedy

Projects like Cape Wind would help put America on the path toward energy independence. This amendment emerges from nowhere, from the back door, from closed rooms.

Alan Sager

Private companies can always do what they want, ... I don't think this amendment is going to change business. There's a lot of scaring going on, with folks telling people that if they vote for this, they're discriminating. I can tell you there is no discrimination in our company, and this amendment isn't going to change that.

Geoffrey Kors

Anti-gay rhetoric and campaign tactics are never acceptable. This amendment to the Code of Fair Campaign Practices simply seeks to establish a level playing field that all candidates would be able to follow. Candidates should focus on issues, not attacks on any group of people.

Tim Wagner

Any discussion about the Wright amendment needs to include the full spectrum of options, including closing Love Field.

Vince Megna

Arbitration is rapidly replacing our Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury. The best way to prepare for arbitration is to bend over and grab your ankles.

David Blunkett

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.

Harry Reid

On this Veterans Day, the president had the opportunity to honor our troops, both those who have served and those who are currently serving, by laying out a clear strategy for success in the war in Iraq. Instead, the president resorted to his old playbook of discredited rhetoric about the War on Terror and political attacks as his own political fortunes and credibility diminish,

Walter Willett

No research has ever shown that people who eat more eggs have more heart attacks than people who eat fewer.

Roger Ailes

During that time I wrote a personal note to a White House staff member as a concerned American expressing my outrage about the attacks on our country. I did not give up my American citizenship to take this job.

Mikko Hypponen

Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.

Richard Ford

Any network traffic that is going to pose a security problem is just blocked. It's just as if the network traffic is purified before it passes on to our networks -- attacks are blocked and prevented from spreading. We just get the reports about how much. It's simple and effective, but we don't trust anything to be foolproof.

Brian Williamson

The situation has not improved. With several major overseas markets down and continued attacks on Nigerian oil fields, this market has a negative backdrop.

Steven Wood

The terrorist attacks are going to make a bad situation even worse.

Leroy McKnight

I've been around GM for a long time, through the 1970s and 1982. They didn't make attacks on retirees then.

Rene Preval

During the electoral campaign I felt the enthusiasm. This is my third campaign, my second running for president, and this was the most enthusiastic.

Nick Hanauer

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

Richard Murray

DeLay is benefited by a short campaign season because his challengers are unknown.

Katsuya Okada

Despite running our campaign with our priority on manifestoes and policies, we failed to secure support from the voters,

Sean Smith

The senator welcomes him into the race and we look forward to a campaign where we compare the senator's record to Mr. Lamont's record.

Edward Skyler

The suggestion that the mayor is limited to doing only what he proposed during his re-election campaign is absurd.

Yan Xiaohong

The special operation has to some extent played a deterrent role in curbing Internet piracy and copyright violations. But one campaign cannot solve the problem.

Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

Paul Turner

After a tough start to our Celtic League campaign with three away games in a row, it is nice to have a match at Rodney Parade and we are looking to make it a difficult place for teams to come and play,

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Mark Baldwin

Depending on the school culture at the site where they student teach, our teacher candidates are either very involved in faculty meetings and workshops, or they are not involved at all. We want to improve this because one of the most critical parts in laying the foundation for a quality teaching career is the student teaching experience.

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

Paul Barrett

Essentially the same men who would be candidates for a prostate surgery are also candidates for radiation therapy.

John Prescott

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

Fred Eckhard

Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.

David Yepsen

The race is a jumble. There are half a dozen candidates who are in double digits, low double digits in the polls. Nobody's a front-runner.

Jim Terry

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

Chuck D.

Any conduct that violates either the law or Red Cross code of conduct is not tolerated.

Yaacov Cohen

We've shifted from being a Microsoft-centric company to more of an IBM- and open-systems-centric company. We made the decision prior to the software code leak, and it had nothing to do with that. That's under federal investigation.

Nick Kinsella

The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than what it actually is; a code of conduct.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Tool vendors have made a good start, but have much work to do in tools that depend on compilers and other source code analyzers.

Nick Griffin

Unfortunately, there haven't been any contributions to the code from parties that have downloaded it.

Steve McConnell

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Michael Bryant

Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.

Shane Coursen

But we don't get down and dirty and talk about individual lines of code in our products.

Jerry Weintraub

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Loren Roberts

I wanted to come out here and do well and establish myself early. That's why this win is so sweet to me.

Brian Lane

That's what we wanted to do. We passed a little more last week. We wanted to establish the run this week.

Alex Morrison

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Fred Chao

We all look to Matt to establish the level of play for us. R.J. has made his improvements and Kyle has worked extremely hard and he'll make his impact when we need him to.

Hugh Calkins

There's no diagnostic test to establish the diagnosis, and there's no known treatment for this condition.

Jimmie Lee

We talked to a number of people last night, but there's nobody in custody. We're still trying to establish a motive.

Stephen McCausland

We will try to establish what is the link between these three men but as of tonight there's no known connection.

Matt Mays

What we're trying to do is establish a real fan base, not like an overnight fan base, because the ones that you work for stay forever.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Glenn McGrath

The Test match will be over, one way or the other, sometime tomorrow and if they get the runs it'll be fair enough.

Chris Mudd

I've always been able to, when I first meet someone, get a good read on their personality, and I'm fairly observant, so I can tell what people will do and won't do. I pick up on that quicker than some.

Tom Kelly

The MTA has put a fair offer on the negotiating table. Unfortunately that offer has been rejected by the Transport Workers Union.

Edmund Daukoru

A fair price is what the market can sustain.

Tim Ruskell

As a scout you have to look at the hands so the guy doesn't come off the field when it's a passing situation.

Mike Reilly

As a competitor, you want to be on the field when the game is on the line. So no, it wasn't fun from that standpoint. We were all just pulling for our defense. We were all just trying to get out of this thing alive.

Richie Zisk

A veteran can provide leadership not only on the field but in the clubhouse. They're really invaluable.

J. Horton

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

Steve Spurrier

As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.

Eric Trudo

That play got us going. We marched right down the field and scored.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Bruce Arena

Any group we're going to be in is going to be a tough group.

Ahmed Akkari

As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.

Gerard Way

Ray- What is a large group of moose? Mooses?Mikey- No way! It's Meesi.Gerard- F*ck Off! It's Meese.

Mike Vrabel

Our development as a group is not good. You look at where we're at defensively and what we've done, and it's not good. That has nothing to do with new guys/old guys, it's got a lot to do with guys that have to play better, everybody.

Karlos Dansby

Orlando is a tough player. I like his leadership and I like his style of play. He has been around for a while and he has a lot of experience. He's with a young group of linebackers and I think he is really going to help us out.

Patrice Clerc

Of course. Why not? Welcome, well ... I still have a little problem with what he said about the country. I understand that someone does like Mr. X or Mr. Y or a group of people, but I have a problem about (criticism) of a whole country.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

William Pulleyblank

The solution is looking for patterns. It looks at a group to find out what it's doing and find out who's doing something different.

Thomas Cromwell

I've never been as concerned, for me personally or the group I was with, as when we exited the Superdome,

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Dwane Casey

As long as he is playing at that level, he is our starting center.

Robert Ramos

Railroad tracks aren't anything to be playing with.

Bronson Arroyo

Probably as soon as I turn on the TV and see the Red Sox playing and I'll be playing somewhere else.

Carl Jackson

Oh, he was playing terrible before the tournament.

Dan Anderson

Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset about today because we have to get right back at it in Two Rivers.

Daniel Gibson

After the first half, we got the jitters out of the way. We started playing basketball.

Bob Schaefer

After we went up 10 we stopped playing the rest of the half. They were more aggressive. We took a 10-point lead, and we were down (eight) at halftime.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

After seven years, I'll be 39, but I want to keep playing until I'm 40.

Paul Troth

Defensively, we're making tremendous strides. We're playing smarter and better.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.