Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Montgomery

John Ashcroft is not a friend of liberty and justice. George Bush, the appointed president, is not someone who ---prior to a month ago--- ever demonstrated any insight or acuity about the world around him. Have these men been born again, again?

Marvin Hier

He just took the job, nobody appointed him, nobody else wanted it.

Ryoji Noyori

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

David Rosenberg

There is a historical pattern that everyone should be aware of because each of the past three newly appointed Fed chairman began their tenure with a quick succession of interest rate hikes.

Al Goldman

There is no economic justification to raise rates. There is no sign that prices can go up much in this competitive environment? Raise rates or not raise rates, I feel that the market will continue its appointed rounds on the up side.

Will Whitehorn

We're prepared to invest another $100 million to develop this business. I just appointed our head of astronaut relations to arrange for them to make deposits.

Sen. Menard

We thought we needed some time because the people need to be appointed and start meeting, and that probably won?t happen until the very beginning of March. We thought we needed at least three months.

Jayne Hawkins

I think it starts at the very top with the elected officials, goes to the appointed officials, goes to the Department of Criminal Justice ... and down to the prison employees who were very lax that day.

Jeff Sessions

It is not necessary to have a mandated, statutorily appointed czar.

Marcy Winograd

Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for nuclear weapons, opposing the International Criminal Court.

Efraim Zuroff

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

Tom Gray

(His mental health history) suggests that his criminal culpability is materially diminished.

Kemal Saiki

Whatever semblance of political and or ethnic motivations disappeared, the main one is the illegal exploitation of resources and criminal enterprise.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Margie Long

I think sometimes juveniles tend to think by shooting windows with BB guns it's fun for them maybe they're bored; but it's a criminal offense.

Juan Morales

He was going to college. He was studying criminal law. He wanted to be a police officer.

M. Wolfe

I don't know what's gong to happen. I don't know if the city's going to push the forfeiture action. I don't know if the city's going to file criminal charges.

E. Hicks

He has a criminal record that goes back to the 1990s, primarily theft and forgeries, receiving stolen property type of offenses, ... We are happy to say that this individual is off the streets now.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Michael Marrero

It is funded by a grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

John Young

I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

Kim Smith

If the people want this and we elected our school board, sooner or later they're going to have to listen to us.

Judie Niskala

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

Bill Young

I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what's politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is the right thing.

Greg Sorbara

I love my job, ... And I hope that some day, one of you in this group will be elected to government somewhere.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Bob Taft

I'm not focused on next year's election, ... Obviously, I'm not a candidate. I'm term-limited. I'm focused on doing the job I was elected to do as governor.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Ian Morrison

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

Richard Fisher

I'm worried about my employees more than anything.

Rick Blount

If our employees had the resources to solve their own problems, they would. If they are going to be able to help us, we have to help them first.

Steve Gill

I have trouble with the money issue. I think we need to treat all employees the same.

Jorge Mujica

I really feel this time around nobody is going to get fired. We have prepared this so well with the letters for employees to give to their employers.

J. Taylor

I'm just here to help. We're here to make sure our employees are fine, are whole. When we leave today we want to make sure they have everything they need.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Seamus Kotyk

He just puts the puck on net. He just works so hard out there. He goes down the lane with his head down and then he looks up, sees an opening and puts the shot where he wants to.

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

Woodrow Wilson

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

Woody Allen

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope with it...

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

Gordon Fowler

Part of their problems might be because of lax controls.

Arjun Makhijani

be the most lax standards for a repository in the world.

Colin Campbell

But this is going to stay for a while. We can't get lax this time.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Robert D. Hare

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Ryan Ross

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Roberto Bolano

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Robert Penn Warren

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Robert Green Ingersoll

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

Brian Powell

being in prison will turn you into a man.

Felix Kulov

In many prisons the staff have returned to work,

James Anthony Froude

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Jim Wooldridge

It starts with his mind-set. He's put up big numbers, but he's all about winning. When you get to that point, there's no cobwebs left. It's all about winning.

Rodney Cooley

After 20 or so starts I think he'll get stronger.

Adam McKay

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

Herb Kohl

As I said to him upstairs, 'The real work starts now,'

Ann Strother

You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments come, this is when we always play our best.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Juan Hernandez's

I'm on top of the world. My world, at least.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.