Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Sand

I don't believe First Amendment rights are being infringed,

Dick Thornburgh

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Jim Cooper

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

William Kelly

In contrast to the prescribed right to statewide referendum process, there is no affirmative right under the Maine Constitution which enables citizens to enact local ordinances by petition. This conclusion is in accordance with Maine law.... In conclusion, the city drafted the charter to provide for a citizen's initiative process and the city can amend the charter to limit that process. The proposed amendment is in accordance with state and federal constitutions, as well as state statute.

John McCain

I know that money corrupts. I would rather have a clean government than one where ""First Amendment rights are being respected,"" that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.

Sen. Baker

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

Joe Curtin

The military must be very careful in not violating an individual's First Amendment rights,

Jerry Yang

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

Greg Allen

The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.

John Yarmuth

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

Gary Krein

I wouldn't say it's a slam-dunk, but we've found fish everywhere we've fished. We fished Possession Bar on Sunday morning and didn't get a legal fish, so we went over to Double Bluff and did OK. But I heard Possession did come on at the same time, on the low tide.

Gary Ross

I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, they can then compromise.

Rick Anderson

John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.

Ed Thiel

It barely passed, and it shows the pilots are not in favor of giving the company anything more. That's the smallest margin that anything has ever been passed by Delta pilots.

F. Schumacher

It barely opened anywhere! They didn't put any money behind it at all.

Darryl Kennedy

He'd been having a good year down in A-ball, and he's showing why he's up here. He's got a nice short, little, simple swing. He's just finding the barrel every time.

Ron Gardenhire

He just didn't make enough pitches today. He was all around the zone but he just missed. He was barely missing, but when you get behind these guys, those types of hitters, that's what happens.

Shaquille O'Neal

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Frederick Chiluba

It is important to state that the Zambian Constitution guarantees that the High Court of Zambia has unlimited and original jurisdiction to hear and determine any civil or criminal proceedings under any law and such jurisdiction and powers as has may be conferred by the constitution or any other law.

Todd Akin

It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose.

Newt Gingrich

undermining the core values of civility -- and it's time they were stopped by a society that values free speech enough to protect it.

Tatiana Navka

Today, a lot of couples fell. I think it's mental problems.

Calandra Terry

Newsletters and Web sites are a great opportunity for couples to put all of the information about the wedding in one place -- where they're registered, guest hotel accommodations, events that will be going on surrounding the wedding. And you could also include events leading up to the wedding, such as showers and parties.

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Elizabeth Dole

The next president, whoever she may be, must stabilize the farm economy by exercising leadership to expand domestic markets and increase exports,

Qu Hongbin

The key to bolstering domestic consumption is to shore up citizens' personal incomes.

Robert Subbaraman

The Korean economy could be starting to fire. Now the domestic and foreign sides are going quite strongly.

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Matthew Aid

All the NSA people I've talked to think domestic surveillance is anathema.

Geoff Sundstrom

They promised to raise production and they've lived up to that, ... This is a domestic issue. It has become necessary for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to grant waivers to prevent shortages.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Jim Volk

People are still very very nervous and looking over their shoulder on the domestic recovery. I think the market could come back again, though -- stocks have had a lot of resilience the last few days.

Jack Baker

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

Jim Tracy

He was adamant about doing everything to get back quickly. He's not 100 percent healthy. The running aspect, he might not be able to fully extend himself that way. Defensively, it isn't a problem.

Ed Cange

We talked all week about playing fundamentally sound. When you do that, it's hard for teams to make extended runs and come back on you.

Don Fehr

I think we will (have a tougher new policy). I don't think it will take an extended period of time.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Brandon Ewing

It's good for any team in the conference, any team in the country, to get off to a start like that. It just gives you a lot of confidence. If we can start out 4-0, then that can extend to 5-0 and 6-0.

Dale Moser

It's for people to have an extended weekend and still have lots of money left to spend.

Paul Denham

It's just tragic. It must be just so sad for the family and we extend our sincere sympathies to them,

Arthur Hogan

There?s an overall feeling that U.S. stocks may be able to extend their rally.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Erich Dumbeck

I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something done through the legal system that says, 'Don't do this again,' and I don't know what that means to do that are.

Steve Hall

I have two legal opinions that say that it's unconstitutional.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

Ron Chernow

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Umberto Eco

I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

Rick Carlisle

If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

Rick James

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Raymond Chandler

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

William S. Burroughs

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

William S. Burroughs

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

William S. Burroughs

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.