Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

David Dennis

We started investing overseas quite a while ago -- for at least the last five or six years. We continue to branch that out.

Michael Hayden

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

Vladimir Ustinov

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Kenneth Davis

Throughout our history, there has been an ebb and flow of one branch being a little more powerful, the president getting a little more power, then congress being more powerful, ... Don't Know Much About History.

Dan Pfeiffer

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

William Congreve

A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.

Don Gher

It's either an olive branch to acknowledge that they need to do more or others might view it as throwing down the gauntlet for government and business to work together.

Randy Barnett

It seems perfectly reasonable for the president to want members of the executive branch to be loyal to him and to follow his directions rather than those of the bureaucracies they lead. They will leave their positions when the president leaves. Making a lifetime appointment of a friend to the Supreme Court is a whole different matter.

Paul Sarbanes

unparalleled experience as a judge and prosecutor, and as director of the FBI and of the CIA makes him a superb choice.

John Deutch

They go to the heart and integrity of the CIA enterprise.

George Tenet

this is the largest release of formerly classified CIA documents ever. It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be protected.

Charles McCarry

As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work that characterized the CIA when it was young, I wonder if it might not be better to speak and think in terms of restoring its culture.

Barbara Reynolds

Our direction does not come from the CIA to investigate a disease outbreak.

Richard Shelby

The same thing at the CIA and the FBI,

John Sherman Cooper

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

Howard Dean

There's no question that Rove was the one that leaked the information about the CIA agent's name.

Aldrich Ames

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Carter Canada

The point is, am I going to let Mary Smith and these other nice, older women be sent out of here thinking they'll have a voucher for the rest of their lives, when Congress is looking to cut the program? They're going to be in Miami somewhere, and they'll be homeless. That's why the fight is going on.

Alex Conant

We have no problem notifying Congress and sharing information with the Hill.

Al Gore

What the United States Congress does on this issue will have an enormous impact on the prospects of peace and prosperity in the far East,

Tamar Jacoby

What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.

Martin Frost

While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public,

David Lewis

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

John Hofmeister

We respectfully request that Congress do no harm by distorting markets or seeking punitive taxes on an industry working hard to respond to high prices and supply shortfalls.

Neil Abercrombie

With troops in combat, the Congress has a non-negotiable obligation to weigh in heavily on the side of immediate and near-term needs of the military, particularly the Army. In some cases, this means cutting funds from pie-in-the-sky programs that may work out down the road and funding things that we know work today.

Denny Griffin

They did overt and covert surveillance. In some cases, they wanted them to know they were being followed.

Jen Lancaster

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

Jo Handelsman

There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility toward women

Matt Cooper

This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status.

Charles Schumer

When was the last time that a covert agent's name was leaked, jeopardizing that agent's life, the life of that agent's network, of informants and the security of this country? ... This is not just another ordinary leak.

Paul Watson

I've known Jonathan for years, and I see no indication that he would ever go about things in a covert way.

Gail Carriger

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

William Shakespeare

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

Paul Lewis

We are looking toward students being disc jockeys and program directors in the near future. Who knows, the next great radio personality could come from Union County.

Lesli Linka Glatter

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

Nina Hoss

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Bill Mumy

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Eric Garland

There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.

Michael Forbes

real CEO, an executive officer. We want him to start to leverage outside more, we want him to get into his networks he has. ... He is still in charge.

Thomas Donohue

The mood in the executive suites I visit is generally optimistic.

John Roberts

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

David Pringle

The most positive thing about this executive order is that the government is practicing what it's preaching.

Mark Borges

These proposals are a radical revision of the existing framework. Next year's proxies on executive pay are going to look pretty different.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Larry James

Absolutely, with the growth we experienced last year, Lithia Toyota recognized the opportunity that exists here in Odessa.

Joseph Biden

This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world, and it is unnecessary to be in that position, ... This Week.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

Neil Sheehan

Any contamination that exists is at low levels. It does not pose a threat to the public or workers at the site.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Teju Cole

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Charles Schumer

We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Mayor Barse

We are always seeking new and better information.

Richard Davidson

We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction.

Alexander Kashlinsky

Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.

Bill Nye

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

Cecily Strong

Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

James Bamford

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Alex Winter

The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Patricia Long

Then they literally ran with me to the pre-op and then on to surgery.

Andrew Roskill

There were literally no blemishes we could uncover in the quarter.

Josh Cincinnati

There was this one line, 'fresh succulent first years,' that we taped literally 22 times.

Merrill Flood

It really didn't show they were complying with what the literal terms of the ordinance were.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Susan Gibbs

These men literally are responsible for people's souls, so we take it very seriously if a priest indicates he can no longer function.

Josie Bissett

The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.

William Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''

Steve Gross

The trend has long been for spaces to migrate to the outer boroughs. It seems like the tide is turning.

Frank Zappa

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

Vincent Piazza

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

Liu Yang

Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

Matt Maldre

Tourists who go to outer space should stay out there.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Sean Kline

They always play us harder. It always seems like they come out and give us a game, regardless of the way the rest of the season is going.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Chris Bosh

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

Chogyam Trungpa

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

Dean Acheson

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

Dayron Robles

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Mariska Hargitay

Speak The Truth. Seek The Truth. Be The Truth.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Stephen R. Covey

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Joel Klein

the time has come to seek new challenges.

Swami Vivekananda

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.