Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wilkinson

What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.

Mike McGavick

I though it appropriate ... that I drop by and let him know that it was my view that changing the Magnuson amendment was unacceptable in my state, and that view crossed all party lines.

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.

Chuck D.

I think the administration is making a terrible mistake in opposing John McCain's amendment on detainees and torture,

W. S. Gilbert

I think the 25th Amendment should have been invoked, ... There was a period of 10 to 15 hours where Ronald Reagan could not have responded to a crisis. He was out of communication. He was under anesthesia for three hours, then he was in the recovery room.

Denny Chin

It is ironic, ... that a media company that should be seeking to protect the First Amendment is seeking to undermine it by claiming a monopoly on the phrase 'fair and balanced.'

Jerry Summers

It is my practice that if a person is identified as a potential target witness or suspect, that unless I have some assurance in some way the government is not in any way attempt to prosecute them, then I instruct them they have a privilege under the Fifth Amendment not to give testimony.

Alejandro Aviles

I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.

O. J. Simpson

I will not hide behind the Fifth Amendment

Sen Jenkins

There is no assurance if you cut the (tax) by 3 cents, the consumer gets a dime of it.

John Donaldson

his assurance to the party that whenever he calls the next general election there'll be a massive victory by the PNM.

Dan Wilson

The concern has to do with the problem Macon has with giving resources and support to neighborhoods that it deems are expendable, ... All I wanted was some assurance this had been thought through.

Ridha Jawad

The important principle here is that this provides an assurance (to Sunnis) that this constitution is not the end of history but is subject to amendment,

David Stern

That's different. We go where we go (for All-Star Weekend) with the assurance that there will be no betting on our events.

Steve Owens

The dilemma is that there was no direct contract with ICE, because that was handled through the one Bureau contract. It's possible that ICE may now want to work directly with us, but because we don't have any assurance of that, we have given every employee a notice of termination.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The more we see, the more credible assurance we can provide to the council, the more the council can come to closure on this issue and come to the conclusion that Iraq has been disarmed. That is the objective.

Michael Campbell

It presents pharmacists who were unwilling to take a chance with an opportunity to get assurance they'll get paid. How much it will work depends on the willingness of the pharmacist.

Jonathan Scott

It was a sense of assurance when he stepped on the field, and everyone in the huddle just had that twinkle in their eye knowing we could get the job done. It was extra motivation to know that despite any kind of odds he can make it happen.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Jane Friedman

I think it's a great attempt to popularize the book business, and boy, do we need it. It's a good thing, as we try to expand our readers, to put the public into this. I think it's important to have the consumer not only buy the book, but confirm that this is the best book of the year.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

George Dunlap

He left a man on the ground dying, and he didn't attempt to render aid.

Sally Schneider

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.

John Curran

There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.

Mike Coll

What we have attempted to do in this draft is try to make Colonial Avenue much more of a local street - a local cul-de-sac, actually.

Russ Anderson

had indicated that it will attempt to show the game on (Nov. 26) at a time to be determined.

Jeff Gordon

Just the four is really impressive. To do a fifth would be unbelievable.

Joe Neff

I thought we'd be a fourth or fifth seed, but the way things are set up, anything in the top 10 is pretty good. We've seen a lot of these teams. I like where we're at.

Jim Noyes

I think sometimes in basketball, just like everything else, when things don't go right you want to roll over and die. But we played well today, and we want to come back tomorrow and win fifth place.

Chris Enge

I was worried, but the thing is we are so deep. We're in our fifth match and I've had five different starting rotations. Whoever I put out there seems to get the job done.

Michelle Archambeault

I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.

Phil Garner

Roger Clemens is pitching the fifth game right now,

Chan Gailey

Play through it like you normally do, ... That's stupid. It's just the fifth game of a racquetball match. Don't be dumb.

Tyler Andersen

He wrestled hard and he gave all he could. He had a great career. He placed in the region four times and is only the fifth Herndon wrestler to do that.

Greg Pieczynski

Individually, we need better fourth and fifth scores. We really need some good numbers out of those spots. We made some strides there. We had some guys step up in those roles.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

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

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

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.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The people want government that works for them at every level.

Barbara Mikulski

The people of these states were victimized twice. First they were victimized by the hurricane. Second they were victimized by the ineptness of the government response.

Mark Hatton

I picked up a tear in my abductor before the Olympics and this machine identified what was wrong so I did not need to go to hospital.

Leon Uris

You usually don't know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.

Dayle Stewart

This was an issue that was identified in 2002 on which we took prompt corrective action.

Julie Gerberding

We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.

Lisa Holden

Morano identified the need for this training program in December, largely in part because of the incident involving officer McDermott and officer Diaz.

Joel Kinnaman

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Chris Noth

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

Jill Paice

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

Neil Cross

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Lori Enright

Her scoring potential would be a lot higher.

Kamerion Wimbley

I think their potential scares us the most. I still think they have the talent to be one of the top teams in the nation.

Adam Turville

I think we showed through a little bit. We saw a little of our potential.

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

Pete DiPol

He has the potential to do whatever he wants.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Jerry Jones

It has the potential to have that kind of impact.

Susanne Daniels

I keep saying in my head, I wish I'd been here 10 years ago. There's so much potential on so many levels.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Reince Priebus

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

Marcellus Sommerville

He erases a lot of mistakes. It's a privilege to have him back there to do that. He comes up with big rebounds when we need them.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Matthew Nable

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.

Margaret Deland

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Pope Francis

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith,

Sebastiao Salgado

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Shirley Chisholm

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Fred Miller

I think they will target at least one of us.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Saul Alinsky

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

Tori Spelling

I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Robert Langer

You could use this to target tumor cells.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Hal Vogel

He wasn't going to give it up willingly. He didn't want to give it up unless he had to.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Samuel Beckett

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Thomas Harrison

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Crystal Candy

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Mark Bishop

Through witness interviews, we have two suspects, but as of yet, we have no descriptions.