Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Covert

I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Tim Russell

I've never even seen Hickory Motor Speedway. We are going to try to get up there and test Thursday, and then participate in the open test on Friday. I am really serious about this race because if I run well, I believe it can be a boost for my career.

Robert Garrity

I've never even heard of this guy. Believe me, if his name came up, with all the things we did in that case, I would have remembered it. This is the biggest joke ever.

Liam Fox

I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,

Matt Williams

I've liked politics for a long time. I believe governments shouldn't be as large or powerful as they've become. Giving more power to the government is like giving teens whiskey and car keys.

Rob Davis

I've been around this thing a long time and nothing surprises me. Let me say this: You can't believe everything you read. None of us were on that boat. Do you feel sorry about the situation? Absolutely, because to a certain extent, we're all grouped together as professional athletes.

Maurice Strong

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Jim Tressel

I've always known this group has character, but you know, maybe it was revealed again, with them being down, you know, it not looking so wonderful. But they kept playing and they believe in each other.

David Kelley

I use the word innovation instead of creativity. People tend to think that creativity is something that you are born with, something God-given. I don't buy it. I believe that you can practice, practice, practice and become better. All you need is the confidence to believe you can.

Cathy Kelly

We either need more people or less cases.

Rick McAllister

It doesn't stop at Wal-Mart, it's either the right thing to do or it's not.

Paul Davis

I think he'll be (ready), but we're preparing like he won't. And either way it goes, we'll be ready.

Ed DeChellis

It all comes back to the energy and the pop you have. Either you're gonna find the guy or you're not.

Sharon Lane

Just about every plant is a memory of either someone we know or a place where we've been,

Shane Richardson

We haven't seen a proposal at this stage either and until we see something in writing from somebody, there is no offer.

Maureen Johnson

We haven't ruled either of those locations out.

Mark Buehrle

You can go either way with it,'' Guillen said.

Joe Caruso

You can either ride the wave or suck the surf.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Alexander Hamilton

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

Alexander Hamilton

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

Alexander Hamilton

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.

Alexander Hamilton

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

Alexander Hamilton

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.