Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

June Allyson

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

Ronda Rousey

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

William Sadler

I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

Saoirse Ronan

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

Wayne Rooney

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

David Snyder

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

Rob McClure

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

Reyne Rice

The cool thing about that is that kids are role-playing what they see around them, and they see their siblings using digital cameras and using digital phones. They see their parents using those, and so that's what they want to role-play with.

Cathy Andreen

The cameras will be recorded 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will cover exterior doors that are designated as entrances to residence halls.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Estelle

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Mara Wilson

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

Libba Bray

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

Mike Lindsey

It scared me to death. She'd been off all night, because she's sick, she's weak.

John Grisham

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.