Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Norman Cousins

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

Norm Dicks

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

John Sparkman

The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

John Sculley

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

Richard Kaplan

We're giving it to any government agency that needs it. We just want to help people.

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Chiluba

Details of the agreement will be released tomorrow.

Colin Steele

The signing of the addendum to the MoU addresses the valid concerns of the labour movement and speaks to the resilience of the original agreement and reinforces the fact that social partnership and dialogue is possible, orderly and mutually beneficial. Indeed, members of the union movement have signalled that while a new MoU would not include a wage freeze, there are several critical matters which are better dealt with in the spirit of partnership benefiting from research not rumour, candour not deception.

Kiran Karnik

A free trade agreement with the US in the services sector will be a win-win situation for both the countries.

Jean Todt

So we can say that an agreement has been made.

Mike Ramsey

I've talked to Rick Causey myself, and I don't believe he willfully did anything wrong. I don't believe he would agree to plead guilty to a crime when he didn't commit one.

Doug Oliver

It was those requirements for our customers that we were unable to agree on.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Jones

They agreed that we have made substantial progress in our bilateral negotiations over the past year, that we are close to completing them, and that we need to continue to work hard to complete them as soon as possible.

Ronnie Mamba

We have received this and have agreed to inform our members so that this order can be complied with throughout the areas where our members are striking.

Rick Watson

And who wouldn't want to play Juliet. There is also some interaction with the audience. I would never have agreed to do a play with only three actors if I didn't really love it. And the play itself is a draw ? it has a large following.

Robert Sarver

At the time we bought the team (June 30, 2004), we agreed to a new three-year contract with Bryan. Dating back to last summer, I assured Bryan of my intention to extend his contract. I'm disappointed with Bryan's decision but I wish him well.

Paul Jury

was about the only thing we ever agreed on.

Dennis Murphy

We tried to find a place in Great Falls, but Belgrade didn't want to play there and we agreed on Cascade. We were very pleased with the Cascade gym. In fact, they may see a few more challenge games played here.

Michael Petrillo

The deal was done on a handshake. They've been friends for over 30 years and they both agreed on everything.

Keith Urban

The dealer took $2 000 (R12 000) off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future.

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Ross Pillari

We regret that our mistakes have caused so much suffering.

Jamie Shea

We regret any loss of life that this may have caused because our policy remains to minimize collateral damage.

Richard Boucher

discussed the strains that are caused by the (incidents) that occur with regard to ... the presence of troops in any location, including Japan.

Ben Hatfield

We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.

Damion McIntosh

There was a lot of chaos here last year. It wasn't too uniform. Things changed from week to week, which caused confusion. Now the system is always consistent.

Jeffrey Christian

That caused the dollar to fall and gold to rise.

Dr. Wildenthal

Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt have observed and been moved by the personal devastation caused in people's lives by circumstances often out of their control.

Mary Lyons

Like the rest of the country, we have watched in complete disbelief the devastating reports of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina,

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Sonya Boralv

We just learned of this issue and are looking into it.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Juelz Santana

After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. But you have to be willing to work hard.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Shawn Perkins

We were in position to make tackles. We just didn't make the plays.

Toni Simonetti

Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Kelly DeFeciani

Sharon's position will be replaced immediately in May by the person who comes in third.

Silvan Shalom

I don't think its the real position of his party.

Nick Saban

I don't think it's just that position (quarterback),

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Linda Scatena

You can replace the rings but you can't replace what they represent.

Theodore Olson

These two appointments, when they're completed, will replace 57 years of experience.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.