Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness

Bill Miller

Know your pharmacist on a first name basis and get help.

Catherine King

I wouldn't say my home was in chaos, ... but it did need some improvement. The basis of the program is to raise responsible, loving children.

Phil Roeder

I think it's a good change. It's worth a try. If it doesn't work, we don't do it anymore. Getting this board out into the community on a regular basis can't be anything but a positive thing.

Michael Oren

I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.

Peter Kretzmer

It assures that the Fed continues to not buck what was built into the futures contract, and will move by 25 basis points in September.

Bill Belichick

I also coached the secondary and Tom coached the receivers, so we worked together on a daily basis with each other,

Sung Sohn

Greenspan has to make sure the labor market has improved on a continuing basis before he can even think about hiking interest rates. For example, in 1992, he waited 17 months after the peak of the unemployment rate before hiking interest rates.

Tom Daschle

The only thing taken off the table -- I think on a bipartisan basis -- is the utilization of the Social Security trust fund,

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

Tim Eyman

I think the citizens would have some sympathy for (increasing legislative pay) if they saw their legislators listening to their concerns and doing a good job. And when a top legislative priority is taking away the rights of citizens to participate in the initiative process, they don't want to reward that.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Kevin Foley

I think the expectations of the citizens of the province have changed, and it's no different for teachers.

Mayor Mayans

I think the area... has been underserved for a number of years. The citizens have the right to demand better protection.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Max Pirner

We've been told that it will take a state law to have the culvert covers removed. Some of our citizens are taking it into their own hands, and the covers are gradually coming off.

Helen Krause

It has been a pleasure working for the citizens of Rock County, and I really do thank them for the support that they've given in the time that I've been here,

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Jalal Talabani

I swore to respect the Iraqi democratic regime and the Iraqi laws.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Kirk Walters

It is great to have Hassan back. He is one of our leaders. He is a vocal guy on the team and he has been here four years. He knows what is going on. He is an essential part of our offense and defense.

Terry Riley

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Kit Bond

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Terence McElroy

He is a free-market person, as I think most Americans are. The one exception is for basic, essential commodities during an emergency.

Richard Holbrooke

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sargent Shriver

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Judith Butler

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Luiz Inacio

I will not do what Getulio Vargas did, nor will I do what Janio Quadros did,

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Tori Spelling

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Steven Bell

It was not bad. I have always preferred the cold.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Neil Budde

There is not just one preferred source at one time during the day.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Warren Beatty

I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!

David Stern

preferred that we do it as a group.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Stephen LaDue

I was able to aggressively quote it because I had the availability of that product.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

James Cook

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

Erma Bombeck

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Jim Betker

He has a taste of a state championship.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Robin Trower

The States still has the best audiences by far.