Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Glancey

I think it is safe to say Chairman Sensenbrenner understands that border security is the third part of the equation. Without it you don't have homeland security and national security.

Uri Dan

Herzl declared the Jewish State in Basel and Sharon outlined its borders in Crawford, ... From the moment he decided that he has to consolidate the Jewish state lines, it was as good as done.

Len Munsil

Her executive order uses the National Guard as window dressing. She wants the National Guard to be solely in a support role. The National Guard should not be used to change the oil for border patrol vehicles, nor should it be used as a political prop for her re-election.

Jack Straw

It is inconceivable that military commanders would permit their troops to cross an international border without explicit political authorization to do so. That clearly would be a decision solely for your Government,

Dave Heineman

I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.

Nick Lampson

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We have tightened security on the border between (the northern province of) Nineveh and Syria.

Edward Thomas

I have come to the borders of sleep,/ The unfathomable deep/ Forest where all must lose/ Their way.

John Cornyn

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

Mario Monti

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

Jim Calhoun

He's a four-year stay. He's been involved with championships and a national championship. He's made as many big three-pointers as any kid I've ever had. ... Rashad clearly has been a special player for us. He's a special kid.

Jeffery Veen

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

Orrin Hatch

He should do it independently because that's the only way we're going to have ... a way around these conflicts of interest that clearly exist,

Michael Loomis

Kids are crossing everywhere in that parking area. We need to stop the traffic and get safe lines of passage for pedestrians.

Kaitlin Page

I think it crosses your mind, but you have to deal with what's in front of you. I think it's kind of cool. Even though they can recruit kids, it makes it even more of a challenge, and we like that.

Lamar Butler

He crossed his legs. He folded his arms. He was just talking like it was a normal conversation.

Matthew Morrison

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Tobias Crabtree

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Tim Wiese

I thought this can't be happening. We had how many chances? Everything was played at their goal, then comes one cross and we let (Boubacar) head in unmarked.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Elliott Sadler

I think it's up to the drivers. We don't know where the line is until somebody crosses it. Until somebody gets called in for a pass-through penalty, nobody really knows where the line is. I'm sure we're going to push the envelope come (today).

Kelly Hughes

I would not term it a suspension. We do not disclose such information about students It was my decision that O.J. Mayo not travel or play with the team (tonight).

David Stern

I would say to Byron let me make that decision and he should focus more on basketball. And if you see him, tell him that. We're going to be back.

Nick Saban

I would stop short of saying that Ronnie was 100 percent, but he did do everything in practice. Those decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis.

Larry Bowa

Joe tries to surround himself with good people. He relies on his staff. And yet, when there's a tough decision to be made, he makes it.

Mark Roe

I think it's a great move, ... I'm really, really pleased that something good has come from my mistake, really. I'd like to think that the way I handled it at the time, and what I went through, was probably a small factor in their decision to look at it.

Alan Trammell

He could make our decision easy -- one way or another.

John Gibbons

He did his running and felt good, felt better. If he keeps progressing, we'll see where he's at. I know we have to make a decision on that tournament. We'll have to see.

Dusty Baker

He deserved to win that one. That's hopefully a makeup for some of the great games he's thrown and didn't get a decision or got a loss. I'm glad for him, glad for us, and we can hopefully win a series before we go on the road.

Don Cooley

He (King) was throwing up a lot Friday night, so I made the decision to sit him out for a match on Saturday so he could save his strength.

Siri Hustvedt

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Piet Hein

If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit

Warren Spector

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

Julian Callow

The ECB is getting toward a position of priming the markets for a future rate increase, but they don't want to say that explicitly because there have been false dawns before.

Anthony Weiner

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Lynne Cheney

I have never written anything sexually explicit,

Rory Robertson

The markets were a little disappointed that the Fed didn't give any explicit hint that a pause is around the corner.

John Richter

Americans are fed up with the tens of millions of unsolicited, sexually explicit e-mails received every day,

Jim Solomons

The report is very explicit as to what occurred. For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

William Jennings Bryan

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Woodrow Wilson

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Woodrow Wilson

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Vladimir Putin

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Neal A. Maxwell

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Ed Garland

They're in violation and we're waiting to see a permit application.

Gerald Smith

It's a third permit we'd need to obtain.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William S. Burroughs

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

Winfield Scott Hancock

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Tim Walz

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Richard Myers

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.