Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Rollins

an intensive, in-depth review based on a randomly selected number of cases from three District Offices.

Charles Grassley

And when we expect trading partners to respect science, we should be willing to do the same. So I don't support depriving the Department of Agriculture with the funding it needs to make decisions based on sound science even while we need to send a loud and clear message to Japan.

Jeb Bush

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Ibrahim Hooper

And we saw the other case where a Copt, an Egyptian Copt, a Christian, was probably killed because he looked like he could be a Muslim. So bigots are never brain surgeons. I mean, when they do these things it's based on ignorance. So their targets always aren't the right targets in their own minds.

Harmony Korine

Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

Ken Chalk

Eminent domain has been used historically very judiciously and mostly appropriately in North Carolina and other states. Our opposition is strictly based on our concern about the potential change in direction with eminent domain that the Supreme Court had opened that threatens private ownership of property.

Mark Udall

Emergency-response management should be based on career expertise and not political connections,

Michael Gray

Employers have to be very strict about hiring people based on objective criteria. You can't just hire them because you like them.

Nancy Lee

Employees will choose companies, as well as remain loyal to companies, based on the perception of that company's whole corporate social responsibility, ... Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause.

Mark Farley

We've been talking for years. This was one of those opportunities in his career when the timing was finally right for it to happen. We had a need, and he had an opening.

Stew Morrill

We were pressing, and we were trying too hard. I have seen it many times during my career on Senior Night.

Hines Ward

We have to count our blessings. The man above, he really looked down on Jerome and said, 'I'm not going to let you end your career on a fumble like that.' ... We're one game away from getting him to Detroit.

Robert B. Laughlin

The experience that firmly placed me on a course toward a professional career in science was the four years I spent as an undergraduate at Berkeley.

Victoria de los Angeles

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

Soledad O'Brien

When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.

Lucien Bouchard

We know that at all times in Mr. Levesque's career she was always at his side and always supported him with dignity and courage, and I think we must pay tribute to her today.

Seth Godin

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' really enriched my career. It was a big, amazing thing to do.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Harry Browne

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Howard Zinn

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.

Hannah Arendt

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.