Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Brad Johnson

Tuition is out-pacing inflation ridiculously. The problem is the federal government hasn't picked up the slack.

Natalie Rule

We already had all of our first-responder teams pre-deployed -- 32 teams in all -- who went in and staged in and around the hurricane zone and were ready to go by Sunday. This is deployment that requires that the governor make a request to the federal government.

Glenn Marshall

At the end of the day, as long as it takes, we're still a tribe, no matter what. We didn't need the federal government to tell us we're a tribe.

Rep. Kurk

We fired the shot that will be heard around the nation. What we need to do is to say no to the federal government - and not just in New Hampshire, but in many other states.

George H. W. Bush

We got a job to make sure this hurricane headed toward Florida, the federal response is prepared for it,

Pascual Gonzalez

We gladly did our part. Now it's time for the state and federal government to do there part.

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Joe Torre

Even though Ted Turner fired me back in 1984, we remain friends,

Terry Thimlar

You hope they're fired up to realize that they still have to get into the playoffs.

Wyclef Jean

I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

Alexis Hornbuckle

I think they had the swagger we usually carry. It seemed like we got frustrated, and we let down instead of getting fired up and trying to get it back.

Adam Dennis

That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.

Sujay Lama

We played them pretty close. They're a good team. We have to come out the way we did today and stay fired up.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

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,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

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.

James Dobbins

It was well known by everyone, including the US government, that the system as constructed invited kickbacks,

Fidel Castro

I send you, the Party, the Government and the Korean people, our most sincere congratulations,

Seth Waxman

Is it the position of the government that the use of tobacco is safe and effective?

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Sonia Sood

I should think that after notice is issued and replies are heard and arguments put forth, the issue should take six months to a year to get resolved.

Katherine Brown

I seen shots out the window, and I heard someone say. And I called 911.

Vince Young

I've been hearing about that stadium, ... What's it like, man? I heard it's huge, noisy. I can't wait to get up there.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Joe Arbona

This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Janis Burklund

Florida's nice, but let's get real. The show was called 'Dallas,' right? It took place in Dallas, right? So the movie should be shot in Dallas, right?

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Rick Adelman

We had a shot to win the game. It just didn't go down for us.

Doug Biega

Tonight. He made the only shot he had to.