Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

African Proverbs

Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat,it is just that no one ever gives them meat. Akan proverb, West Africa

Robert Harris

It was a minor injury. He was running when it happened. We took him to hospital in South Africa because we just wanted to make sure he was okay, and that done, he is now back to work.

Carsten Fritsch

It's likely to be another difficult year for the rand. As the yield gap narrows, that will make it more difficult for South Africa to attract the investment it needs.

Gerry Adams

It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.

Derrek Lee

It's easy to take a team like South Africa lightly because we didn't know anything about them. But we didn't and we played well today.

Phil Lilienthal

When the whites ruled South Africa they displaced three to four million people from their land. Pre '94 it was pretty tough, we mostly work with kids from that area.

Mo Ibrahim

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Hu Jintao

China is forever an important force safeguarding world peace. China have never sought hegemony, and never will in the future,

Michael Whitaker

China is a very special market, a very important market.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to disease outbreaks.

Chong Quan

China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.

Luo Bingsheng

China expects the 2006 global iron ore price to return to the level previous to the dramatic price hike.

Chen Xingdong

For sure by 2006 China will become number four and by 2010 it will be more than Germany.

Alan Greenspan

Further development of China's trading relationships with the United States and other industrial countries will work to strengthen the rule of law within China and to firm its commitment to economic reform,

Mark Brewer

is all but a China company at this point, and he's turned his back on Michigan.

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Jeff Bingaman

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Gary Miller

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations

Gary Miller

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

Gary Larson

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

Jasper Fforde

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

Javad Vaidi

But if the situation changes, we will have to review our oil policies.

Harry Browne

Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.