Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Cheadle

We cannot stand here in a free society, proclaiming that we care about human life, and do nothing in the face of this, in my opinion,

Khaya Ngqula

We cannot stand by idly and watch our customers suffer the consequences of this fuel shortage.

Hilary Rosen

We cannot sit idly by while these services continue to operate illegally, especially at a time when new legitimate services are being launched.

Rodger Schlickeisen

We cannot sit by and watch the only public lands devoted to wildlife protection wither away. There's simply too much at stake.

Kathleen Blanco

We cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed, ... We must make the new Louisiana, smarter, safer and stronger.

Malcolm Miller

We cannot ship to them and we are not prepared to take on the risk ourselves. The situation gets resolved when they can restructure their debt and they can take product normally and we can get credit insurance normally,

Travis Strack

We cannot send volunteers in to get shot. That is not what they volunteered to do.

Franco Frattini

We cannot send back illegal people to countries where they will be subject to inhuman or degrading treatment,

Mitsushige Akino

We cannot see any upper limit for commodity prices given the tight supply. There is still room for commodity stocks to gain.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Paine

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...

Thomas Paine

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Thomas Paine

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Thomas Paine

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Timothy Geithner

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Thomas Jefferson

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Thomas Jefferson

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.

Irwin Cohen

Purchases aren't so much 'needs-driven', ... People say, 'I want it.'

Irene Cara

The rumors emanated from people who are in a position of power.

Ed Wade

I've talked to players before about - you can't turn this around. It has to be about the fans. People have a right to boo.

Sally Thompson

I've seen people from Mississippi trying to get back home.

Charlie Green

I've never seen this like this before, people are not so much worried about the price, just getting the fuel.

Tom Burns

I've never seen the people who own DRS.

Karen Miller

It was too complicated for people to get.

Janet Belsky

These shows are so right psychologically they have to do people a lot of good.