Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Steven Wieting

The Fed has assumed that the weakness in the first quarter was temporary. This confirms that. The reasonable view was you don't have a one-third rise in energy prices without consequences.

Justin Beckett

The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would have an interest in doing this.

Wei Kong

The findings of our studies did not fit most people's preconceived notions about how DNA molecules work, so they assumed we had to be wrong. The critics seemed very sure of themselves, and we had a lot of sleepless nights.

Bob Bandoni

Already, it's clear to me that leadership from the senior class is effective. It's not necessarily coming from authority that sometimes is assumed by playing prowess. It's really coming by a moral authority, one that kind of transcends what happens in the field. They're established kids, very comfortable with themselves and very genuine and enthusiastic on the field, but genuine in their responses to the younger players.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Richard Bohling

The county operated as business as usual for so long, no one wanted to change anything. People assumed a change was made but it never was. This should make it easier to direct money to fire departments that perform needed work. We need a contract for legitimate business purposes.

Madison Smartt Bell

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

Chris Rupkey

The curve should be flattening if the Fed is assumed to be still tightening.

Geoffrey Kors

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

Larry Moore

Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that were counted here.

Bryan Williams

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

Justin Trudeau

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

Dana Doiron

The man ran in, grabbed the ballot box, then threw it under the wheels of his truck and took off ... the box was flat as a pancake.

Alan Doss

The Liberian people have made their choice through the ballot today, and we are all obliged to respect the choice made by the men and women of this nation,

David Segal

This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.

Nick Pappas

The ballot was a secret ballot for good reason and the way in which members voted should remain confidential to each and every member, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

Robert Barry

The ballot this year is highly complex. We are trying to make sure that people understand the ballot. For the first time this year, it is electronically readable.

Thomas Mann

I would say Joe Lieberman (would be perceived as being the most pro-business), ... is the least likely of the major candidates to win the nomination.

Ron Walters

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Peter Hakim

What we do not know is how he will govern. There is a big difference between a candidate and a president.

Summer Luciano

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Glen Hanlon

He's a candidate but our standing doesn't help his cause. I can say this though. I haven't seen many guys more enthusiastic for the game.

David Cobb

I think that the Green Party should run a woman for president in 2008. Under the right circumstances, I'd be happy to be the Vice Presidential candidate of the right Green woman because the Greens take gender equality seriously.

Newt Gingrich

Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress,

Jennifer Duffy

I think it's one of these issues that every candidate is going to have a position paper on it and it's going to be a question in every debate.

Debra Ness

It is more important than ever to come up with a consensus candidate everyone can respect.

Walt Patynski

He controlled the top of the third. From the fourth through seventh innings, he was really on top of his game.

Jon Sim

Intensity like that is what we need. They're a good team, (but) we controlled a lot of the game tonight.

Jerrold Nadler

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

Dayton Moore

I never saw Derek Jeter when was young, but that's who he reminds me of. He's just real sure and real controlled with everything that he does.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.

Mike Greene

The final score was not indicative of how we played the game. We controlled the game for the most part, especially defensively.

Hans Troedsson

All uncontrolled movements of poultry are a risk factor that might lead to outbreaks. This needs to be controlled much more.

Russ Purnell

It's not for the faint of heart. It's a sacrifice of your body. You might be 175 pounds like Dexter Reid and have to take on the wedge. You have to be a special guy. It's controlled mayhem.

Martin Straka

After that (goal), I think we controlled the game.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Neal Katyal

It is a foundation of this court to test the lawfulness of military tribunals.

Rick Davis

I think the public vetting proves that this guy is the real deal ? bright, knows the issues and can leave a long-term imprint on the court because of his youth and intellect.

Harry Reid

I think the American people can see through this so clearly. The president should come forward with some middle-of-the-road person, somebody that is going to be a good Supreme Court justice, not somebody that's going to be writing the law from the bench, ... This Week.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

Don Garber

In the immediate and long-term future, today's news will prove to be a historical turning point for the sport. These recent developments further solidify soccer's standing and value as a major television property in the United States with even greater future potential.

Ian Shepherdson

(The GDP and inflation data) won't prevent modest further easing,

Roger Peak

The further out the less stressed, but everyone was affected.

Daren Brown

The further it went out there, the slower it went.

Craig Cook

The further away from the ski hill you stay, the better the price and the accommodations.

Lisa McDonald

Students near the teacher can hear well. But those further away struggle because they receive that reduced signal.

Hubert Humphrey

The negotiators did a good job, but we have a lot further to go,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

Bible Bible

And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

Dan Leistikow

It's not for the governor to pick a number out of the air.

Matthew Dowd

It shows the public rewards leaders. If you lead and say 'this is what we want to do,' even if you don't succeed in the short run, the public will support you. The public supports infrastructure improvements and they see the governor leading.

Stephen Minarik

That hurdle is a big deal, ... This is a party that supports Governor Pataki.

Jerry Austin

It's what happens when you haven't had a governor for 16 years.

Dick Cheney

I want to do as well as the governor did.

Jeff Emerson

And Governor Riley has worked ever since then to implement it.

Robert Collier

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Jerry Falwell

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Paulo Coelho

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

Natalie Portman

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I no longer limit myself.

Leonard Cohen

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Karl Barth

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Karl Barth

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.