Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

John Walters

Today, the Mexicans have taken over and are running the organized crime, and getting the bulk of the money. The Colombians have pulled back.

Paul Tonko

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.

Mary Meeker

Most have a trickle of volume and the bulk will remain of marginal import in the scheme of things. We saw an exchange for the worldwide market in Ferris wheels recently -- we started to wonder if we are reaching the peak.

Rafer Alston

You can call it disappointing or frustrating, whatever you call it, but no one understands the nature of not having your guys, especially the guys you count on to play the bulk of the minutes and take the bulk of the shots. Whenever one came back, the other went out. We never had a full season playing with the nucleus we envisioned.

Jim Mastro

Those are the places where they will spend the bulk of their time when they are not in class. Facilities mean everything.

Michael Anderson

We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.

Michael McCabe

One of the more obvious options for smaller firms is the opportunity to outsource certain business processes so that in a sense you off-load a bulk of the compliance work.

Tim Pawlenty

If it's obvious that the bulk of legislative leaders aren't interested in moving forward, we can lead a horse to water but we can't make him or her drink, ... So we're not going to force their head into the river.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

Susan Cook

We have a fine collection of children's books.

Jon Polito

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

Rich Grant

We haven't seen one penny yet. At the end of March, we get the tax collection for January.

Arthur Tucker

We have a very unique fruit cone and seed collection that we're trying to increase. We do consulting work for commercial companies, such as spice companies, when they can't identify in-house. Occasionally there are some odd seeds.

Chloe Dao

I think my collection was the most cohesive, and I think I did step out of my own boundary.

Sean Hayes

I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, "Do you like hamsters? Why did you say hamsters? Do you have a collection of hamsters?" I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.

Co Adriaanse

I have a lot of players with a lot of potential. My team is getting better and better, but I prefer a team to a collection of stars. As a manager, you can never depend on one player. If he is injured, sick or thinks 'today I won't work' then you will lose.

Tatiana Maslany

I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Kevin McCarthy

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Pat Oliphant

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

George Casey

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

Roy Moore

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Noreena Hertz

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

Jennifer Glass

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Chris Simcox

The American people still have the God-given right to defend the integrity of the territory, their sovereignty and their national security, and they will do so if the federal government fails in its constitutional duty.

Tim McConnell

That was the key. We weren't able to defend him inside. He was too big and too physical. We're not a big team and he was too much for us." ()

Johnny May

We just didn't defend tonight. We had to fight ... to get back in it once they got a lead, and we played like we were tired.

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

Ron Watson

We were hard to defend because we had the outside shooters and we had the inside game. We had six players that could score at any time in double figures.

Mark McKinnon

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

Mikko Hypponen

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

Zadie Smith

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Steve McNamara

That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.

Scott Graf

That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.

Marsha Lowry

We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.

William Brewster

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

Prabhat Jha

We have to identify the hot spots ? highways, factories, places where young men gather ? and scale up prevention efforts.

Sue Leckey

We have some experience, but losing seven starters is significant. We have some talent, but we have to gather ourselves as a team.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Ron Reagan

We can gather without posting notice. Of course, we are always open if members of the public want to join us.

Marcia Danchise

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

Jean Paul

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Pat Riley

I'd like to secure what we've had all season, which is the number two spot (in the playoffs). We have to gather ourselves and get back on track.

Pat Riley

I'd like to secure what we've had all season, which is the No. 2 spot. We've got to gather ourselves.

Luo Gan

Judicial work at the grass-roots level has bearings on the overall situation of the judicial work of the country.

Louise Arbour

My main interest, to be very frank, is to solidify the judicial system.

Anne Foley

Then I think judicial notice can be taken to that effect,

Gloria Borger

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

John Roberts

I do not have an over-arching judicial philosophy, ... I have no agenda.

Dick Armey

Sometimes you get judicial rulings that gladden you and sometimes you don't,

Sam Brownback

A lot of us wanted somebody who has a pretty well-established and thought-through and set judicial philosophy,

Prince Nayef

Do we have anything other than sharia? We don't have a judicial system other than sharia.

Sheriff Stankus

It's become a circus. It's become entertainment. It's no longer a judicial procedure, and that's scary . You wonder, where is this society going?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Ryan Giggs

We can't just rely on Wayne and Ruud.

William Scott

We rely on each other to get through.

Ridley Scott

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Hal Sparks

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

Alan Sillitoe

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Chief Seattle

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Bryant H. McGill

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

Philip Sidney

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.