Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.

Peter Rodman

What the extremists are trying to do is to foment a civil war. But we don't see it. We don't see it succeeding.

R. Robinson

We will not let governments off the hook, ... We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

Conrad Black

The criminal aspect, from a shareholder's perspective, is important because it helps Hollinger International prove its civil case. Shareholders are not recovering meaningful money as a result of the criminal actions. $250,000 is great, but when you're looking for $500 million it doesn't go a long way.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Lynn Hightower

Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Menzies Campbell

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Mabel Illidge

Unfortunately I have become a sort of department and wear several hats. Hopefully the minor will open doors so that someone else can come to Nicholls to teach as well.

Noam Chomsky

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

Russell Schweiss

The Gov. fully supports Secretary McDonough and his efforts to make professionalism and integrity a priority within the Department of Corrections.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Margaret Spellings

The federal government is doing something it has never done before, ... Our 9 percent investment is going to 90 percent. That's my big news.

Omar Pimentel

The federal government has the right intentions, and I do hope they get the job done. It's just a question of will, political will.

Irwin Redlener

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

S. Walker

It's my understanding that if we don't meet those federal guidelines then we are at risk of losing the federal funds that were supplied to Indiana to implement this project.

Sarah Flanagan

Even with this change, there will be more Pell Grant recipients and the federal government will spend more money on Pell than it did this year.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

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.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Aristotle

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Dirk Kempthorne

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Hutton Wilkinson

And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robbie Williams

No matter how caned I got, I never lost sight of how much my mum means to me, and things are great between us now.

Rush Limbaugh

I want a great country. I want people happy.

Rod Stewart

Thanks for the Memory . . . The Great American Songbook Volume IV

Andre Agassi

Thank you, New York for the last 20 years. It's been a great ride.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.