Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCaffrey

These mid-day fights in broad daylight on State Street is a broad change from how gangs used to steel their difference, which tended to be more in back allies at night, in neighborhoods belonging to one gang or the other. Meeting together in the most visible, heavily traveled area of Santa Barbara is something we want to stop right now.

George H. W. Bush

the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits, and lose their hopes for turning that region into a base for attacks on America and our allies around the world.

Robert Lichter

The thing that really matters that weve seen in the past is when the presidents allies desert him, ... When reporters go to natural supporters and they provide the criticism, youre a goner.... Right now it is the shock value. This is actually news.

Kevin McCarthy

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Clint Bolick

Napolitano decided that her special-interest allies are more important than Arizona schoolchildren.

Saddam Hussein

The Americans with their allies will fly out of Iraq very soon, and their puppets will leave even before the Americans.

Cathy McMorris

We must not allow Iran to bully the world or our allies or fail to show Iran that we will take their irresponsible and careless behavior seriously.

Sandy Berger

We can proceed to develop the options on missile defense on a much more measured timetable which allows China and our allies like Australia to have a greater degree of input.

Howard Duvall

The municipal election can get lost in the shuffle.

John Breaux

The most important speech of this election is ... going to be given by the loser when they concede because it will set the tone for the next four years,

Hosni Mubarak

These elections come at a turning point in the history of our country, which is facing new challenges,

Bashar al-Assad

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

Carlos Watson

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot,

John Vines

The primary security for this referendum and the national election ... will be provided for by Iraqi security forces,

Teodoro Petkoff

Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the government, which should evaluate the anti-democratic impact.

Dan Seligson

Florida has been a leader in election reform since 2000.

Adam Ereli

The options of the people in that regard shouldn't be limited by other institutions so as to prejudge the election or the outcome of an election.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Michelle Smurl

We expecting a wolf expert to visit us at the end of the month.

Ann Stevenson

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Rose Hill

Obviously it hasn't turned out the way we were expecting it to turn out, ... But we are grateful Gracia is alive. Our faith in the Lord is still the same. That hasn't changed.

Jim Volk

People were expecting weak retail sales, they were already in the stocks.

Eric Greene

People were expecting it to be a blowout. People were expecting Auburn to show they should be in Miami. I think they're right where they belong.

Bob Bailey

PMC-Sierra is expecting large growth in the market. Inorganic growth is also an option but nothing as of now.

Ashley Haynes

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

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.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

Shelli Haferbecker

If it wasn't the first shot, a lot of times it was the second and third shot.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Chris Hammond

I always start pretty strong. When I do struggle, it tends to be in the second half.

Judd Boswell

I was impressed. They stepped up big in the second half. We called them out and they responded.

George W. Bush

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.