Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Gonzales

Does corruption make it closer? I think it does. But Democrats still think this district is tough.

Sylvia Schenk

Corruption is not just a German issue, but an international one.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Leah Rush

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

Joe Eszterhas

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Jeff Nielsen

They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever the leader is they'll all do well into the future, and make us a better place.

Tony Leon

They say they are going to stop corruption at the ANC ... crocodiles are going to become vegetarians.

Alex Gibney

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Jamie Dimon

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have