Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Ireland

John Ashcroft ... stands for some of the most regressive policies on the ultraconservative agenda. He would ban contraceptive pills, deny contraceptive action to a woman who had been raped and would not allow an abortion in a case of incest.

Eric Rudolph

The purpose of the attack on July 27th (1996) was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

Ted Joyce

There are ongoing trends that are pushing both birth rates and abortion rates down significantly, and those larger trends are more important than the effect of these laws.

Reince Priebus

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

Nelson Warfield

Pataki might think ethanol will win him farm votes in Iowa. But when he's carrying the weight of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights, a boutique tax cut for alternative fuels won't put much in Pataki's tank for a presidential race.

Wendy Wright

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.

Paul Hill

If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it. May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected.

Ron Forman

If there was one abortion bill we thought the governor was going to sign, it was this. The parental-consent laws are already on the books. We were just trying to make them more meaningful. This is a pretty common sense, pretty moderate, common-ground type of bill we thought we could get into law.

David Leopold

In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's very strict. Is someone fleeing forced abortion more deserving of protection than someone fleeing political persecution?

John Gibbons

His presence, that's a big boy. He commands respect that way.

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

R. Bakker

It is the difference in knowledge that commands respect. This is why the true test of every student lies in the humiliation of his master.

Jay Pultz

A person who commands loyalty despite cutting jobs says things.

Mark Trakh

Brooke Smith commands a double down. She's so skilled and her footwork is so good. She's like an old-time player with her back to the basket, and she's got all the moves.

Mike Rizzo

You can tell right now that he commands the position of shortstop. He's going to be a solid shortstop who can really hit. If you get J.D. Drew 's production when he's healthy, with a solid defensive shortstop, you've got an All-Star.

Christine Martin

Pluto is a pit bull, and he must've been very well-trained at some point, but he had just lost everything. He didn't have the commands anymore.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

Astro Teller

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Hanan Ashrawi

He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Jim Stack

Having lived it and been around people who have lived it, you understand what it takes to get to this level and stay at this level. A lot of guys don't have that same understanding of the day-in and day-out commitment it takes to play at this high of a level.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Layne Langholf

Her hard work and commitment have opened up a lot of doors. We are going to miss her leadership and the fact that she played in over 100 varsity games.

Jeremy Irons

It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.

David Hastings

I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different.

Stacy Sullivan

The land is so beautiful. But in contrast to that, the houses are run-down, the poverty is so bad, and there's pollution everywhere.

Grant Dalton

the most extreme leg in terms of its contrast in weather.

Alain Resnais

They got the idea. In life, we rarely remember a whole song; in Potter, there's often a violent contrast between the situation and the song.

Lee Raymond

With the improvement in oil prices, second quarter net income increased 18 percent from the first quarter of 1999, in contrast to the seasonal earnings decline that we usually see from the first to the second quarter of each year,

Pierre Ellis

The third-quarter Employment Cost Index is ... reassuring in the sense that labor costs as measured on this index remain very contained, in contrast to some other labor cost indexes.

Karl Hobbs

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

Shyla Nelson

This contrast between this beautifully written, elegantly constructed music and this outrageous storyline is part of what drew me in.

Steve Saviano

(Kevin) is going to be a good goalie. I'm convinced of it. He's a big prospect for Carolina.

Ozzie Guillen

He convinced me he was ready to go. We need this kid. ... Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

Julian Kurtz

The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We are going to sue you' - that got their attention. I've found that virtually nobody wants to obey the law and that nobody wants to enforce the law.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

John Naughton

We're pretty much convinced it's not a rogue shark or a shark out there -- one shark that's doing all the damage.

David Clohessy

We suspect there are many more. We're convinced it's just a matter of time before it happens again.

Nick Spano

I think we need a strong New Yorker to head the ticket, ... hasn't convinced me he is the right person.

Dan Rather

I am convinced we can do so again. That must be our focus and priority.

Tang Jiaxuan

I am convinced that this meeting will succeed,

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Craig Williams

He's going at the throat of unions, which is the heart of the Democratic Party. If they can reduce the role of unions, that would be a dream come true for Republicans.

E. B. White

He's feeling the pressure from the growth of the Democratic Party, ... He's probably being more diligent.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

John Paxson

It is going to have to get done by Wednesday or not at all. I'm still trying and hope to have it done.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

Mary Douglas

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

David Adams

I told them I may not be a quote-unquote 'working journalist,' I'm not with the mainstream media, but I do have a Web site.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Brian Nick

is out of touch with mainstream West Virginians.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Martin Appel

The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a lot more weapons than just her.

Don King

After that, we have offers from just about every place in the world.

Bill Ward

It offers sensible, practical advice, in an easy-to-read format.

Pope Francis

God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.

Jason Lewis

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Robert Payne

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Lewis Black

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Sergei Fedorov

I'm not as sharp as I'd like to be,

Bob Williams

And all the new stuff has no chains, no hooks; everything is welded or on bearings so there's no sharp corners. And it's all low-maintenance.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Jerry Halstead

Dunn was sharp today in going the distance.

Joe Villani

There's pretty sharp cutoff of where it's snowing.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.