Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Rick Comley

This is a team that's needed validation and it's earning respect. It's all very encouraging. I don't think we've come close to peaking yet. We can get better.

Howard Rogers

This is a sport a lot of kids have taken to. They may not be playing other sports. It gives close to 100 kids something to do between the hours of 4-6 when they could be doing who knows what. Why not vote for it?

Geno Auriemma

This is the game that puts you in the Final Four. To come this close and not win and have to come back and wait 12 months and be lucky enough to do it again, it's unbearable.

Henry Tang

This is the first time that Hong Kong films have been selected to close and open one of the major film festivals in Europe,

Stephen Hess

This is not a full-fledged mea culpa. But by presidential standards, it's there, or pretty close to it, ... The government did screw up, and he is president of the United States.

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.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

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.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Terry Thompson

You have to include local government if he wants local government go out and have meetings up and down the coast.

Andrew Serwin

The order does get the government what it probably needed, not what it wanted.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Buck Henry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Jeff Goodell

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

Jeff Goodell

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Hugo Chavez

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

Howard Baker

What did the president know, and when did he know it?

Jason Mitchell

This is my only violation ever, but I screwed up.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.