Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Starr

It isn't in the interest of the First Amendment for distortions, lies about career civil servants to be spread about. We don't know who is spreading them about. But lies and distortions have no place in our First Amendment universe.

Leonard Sand

I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,

Dick Thornburgh

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Jim Cooper

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

William Kelly

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

John McCain

I know that money corrupts. I would rather have a clean government than one where ""First Amendment rights are being respected,"" that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

Sen. Baker

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

Joe Curtin

The military must be very careful in not violating an individual's First Amendment rights,

Jerry Yang

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Marge Schott

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

Dayton Duncan

Jackson's trip stands at the cusp of major change in the United States for transportation, ... To a great extent, he was still traveling through a 19th-century America that hadn't changed much since the 1860s or so.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Charles Schumer

I hope and pray that the president chooses to unite rather than divide; that he chooses consensus over confrontation.

Joyce Maynard

I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.

Carla Gugino

I'm really fascinated by someone who chooses worst-case scenarios as a profession. Someone who obviously thrives on crisis,

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Clive Sinclair

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Peter Kelly

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

Prince Charles

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

David May

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Alan Cole

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us what we need and this is how we should be running all the time.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Christopher Hill

I think it's fair to say we have a rather major disagreement on this point.

Tim Finchem

I think it's fair to say that the purse level increases year-to-year will not be as steep in the next six years.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Connie Mack

It is a fair plan. It shares the benefits.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Gray Davis

Whatever is done has to be done in a fair and objective manner,

Bill Shine

We try to make sure that everything is fair and is balanced. It's our slogan, but it's also what we live by.

Robert Plant

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

William Blake

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Matt Lawton

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

Charles Saint-Evremond

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

Robert Burns

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion

Italian Proverb

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

Bill Gerstenmaier

At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish for us to try to speculate on a particular launch date.

Sienna Miller

I definitely have been foolish.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

William Ellery Channing

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

Dion Phaneuf

I wouldn't pinpoint any one thing. I just have to play my game and I didn't do that for the first little bit.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Rich Kaelin

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Shannon Hildreth

I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.

Samantha Aldom

I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going through this process with people you know.

Joe Mantello

I lived with a playwright for 12 years,

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Michael Bakwin

I will put (the paintings) on the walls of my house, and in my safe when I leave. I was lax.

Carl Jung

You'll always be safe with me.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Woody Allen

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Richard Gere

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Werner Heisenberg

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Robert Pattinson

I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

Rick Springfield

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Eric Holder

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Andrew Lochart

Even when you've got the tools in place, it's something you want to be vigilant about.

R. Lee Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.