Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I think the important thing, ... is the council stood together and insisted Iraq rescind its decision before any other reviews can be undertaken.

Dale Graham

I think the council has good intentions but they need to really think this through.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

What is at stake is not the provincial council elections, but democracy.

Hoshiyar Zebari

What I said was in fact, we are ready as the new Iraqi interim government to resume our responsibilities, especially now that we have a new U.N. Security Council resolution,

Michael Orchin

We're not going to tie ourselves to trees or have sit-ins or any of that. But we're probably going to be sending out letters and going to council meetings.

Jacci Jahnke

I think we learned a very good lesson. When an issue like this comes up, this council won't be jumping in without researching thoroughly and being informed.

John Bolton

I think today's sanction resolution shows that the Security Council is serious, that its resolutions have to be complied with, that it is prepared to take enforcement steps if they are not complied with.

Pamela Falk

It is likely there will be a presidential statement. It's not binding, and the Security Council doesn't have to vote.

Stephane Dujarric

It is likely that the report will go to the Security Council as early as Friday.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Woodrow Wilson

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

George Cukor

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

Kim Gandy

We know what's at stake and we won't go back.

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Michael Lombardi

This is not about justice, this is not about the law. This is about politics. There is a lot at stake here for us.

Stephen Johnson

Even if they vote no, it will show they have a stake in the process.

Stephen Graham Jones

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.