Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Siegelman

I think the people of Alabama now realize that they would rather have Don's lottery than Bob and Lucy's taxes.

Angelina Jolie

Like most people, I am simply trying to understand the situation in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and how I can best help.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

Dedra Magee

I went with Alabama because I always wanted to play in the SEC.

Chris Anderson

He's done a heck of a job getting Alabama back and getting the program better.

Marco Rubio

We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves.

Wayne Williams

He was never, ever anything but humble, good character, the perfect role model - all those kind of things, that was Calvin. In fact, he helped me attract several other outstanding athletes to Alabama because of the way Calvin was and what they saw in him.

James Hogan

If we could get 5-thousand or so letter from north Alabama I think we could be successful. We need to tell them and show them what's going wrong and send someone with just common sense.

John Givhan

I have been to the God Bless Fort Benning Day before, but this was an honor because I was invited by the committee to come and share my book called Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam and South Alabama .

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

Larry Taylor

It basically took my life away. I don't really care if I see daylight tomorrow.

Jeffery McManus

It basically tells developers that if you are coding in PHP, you are welcome and we would love to have you write applications that integrate with Yahoo.

Michael Bird

It basically takes the 'block' out of the block grant concept.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Mark Herring

I think voters have sent a strong message this past election that they want someone who will go down and work on issues that are priorities for the citizens in the district. Like traffic congestion and finding solutions to the traffic problems, as well as education and development. As state senator, those are the priorities that I will work on.

Dennis Hastert

It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.

Alan Greenspan

we may be governors of the Federal Reserve but we are also citizens of this country.

Viktor Yanukovych

We must improve our lives and we will do it together -- all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine...,

David McCarthy

I have found it increasingly difficult to meet my obligations to the citizens of Millville and the students and staff of our schools.

Dan Carmody

Have two hours free, but heavily enforce it.

Matt Resch

Having the law enforced will have much more impact than the resolution.

Joe Arpaio

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

Arlen Specter

He will enforce the laws, no matter what his personal opinion may be.

Susan Hofer

If you pass a law, it's only as good as its enforcement. We can't enforce the two-loan limit unless we have people entered in the database.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Steve Cole

The goal of the suit is to enforce the existing laws that restrict development.

Dax Shepard

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

Tom McClintock

Everyone recognizes that the only purpose of that (driver's licenses for immigrants) provision is to send a powerful message that it is the official policy of the state not to recognize, enforce or respect our nation's immigration law." ()

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

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.

Jim Murphy

I think the government ought to stay out of other people's business.

James Tien

I think the government could do much better.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Tom McDaniel

It's a project that we're passed the point of no return,

Bob Newman

It's all been passed down through the family.

Jim Malcolm

They're making rules that I think they're running around you and running around us. They passed that rule Tuesday and we're to scurry and get it done.

Jim Thorpe

The sounds of Bye, Bye Blackbird still stung him to the day he passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Gary Myers

Everyone stayed in the saddle and passed the first test.

M. Wolfe

Killing me doesn't punish me, it punishes my family,

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

William J. Brennan

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

William Gilmore Simms

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Ellery Channing

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Richard Baxter

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Robert Reich

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Narendra Modi

Reforms are not an end in itself. Reforms must have a concrete objective.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Lu Xun

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

John Bright

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

Luis Gutierrez

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

Noah Webster

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

B. R. Hayden

He hasn't pitched since he was a sophomore. I've told him he's going to be our closer. The slider was working well.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Nicholas James

In France, Germany, the United States and Japan, she is studied in schools. Here in Britain, she is not a set text.

Malcolm Muggeridge

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Chet Edwards

taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.

Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Cecilia Johnson

They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.

Scott McGaffic

It wasn't a very pretty sight. But I'm taking it in stride.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.