Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Wendy Hall

The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

Alexander Hamilton

The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for Hamilton, he set up our banking system.

Mark Farley

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

John Dunn

Congress has got to hold the administration accountable. The founders set up the checks and balances for that purpose.

Scott Price

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

Randy Hayes

It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.

John Gower

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Marcus Trescothick

It is not ideal to go into the last match with the series already decided, but a lot of ranking points are up for grabs.

David Dunn

I think that would be an ideal situation for Kerry.

Donny Robinson

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Eric Coyne

Ideally you want to do this once, and do it right.

Oliver Luck

Ideally you'd have 12 months to set this up, to get a staff and do everything necessary, and we've had three months to ramp up. But we'll be ready to go.

Robert Pattinson

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Yves Saint Laurent

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

John Bennett

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

Irving Kaufman

The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.

Kazi Shams

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Ira Sorkin

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.

A.J. Chilson

Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.

Dick DeGuerin

He should not be the judge to preside over the trial proceedings relating to a person to whom he is opposed politically.

Tim Ward

I think the jury was in a position to judge the credibility of the testimony.

Frank Cappiello

I think the judge has been very negative toward the company,

Gary Bettman

I think we will ultimately be judged on our response and the message that it sends. This is not a part of our game, it has no place in our game, and it will not be tolerated in our game.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.