Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Novak

Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Bob Brown

It demonstrates the massive economic, as well as environmental and social penalties, of George Bush 's policies.

Stuart Rothenberg

I thought it was a strong night for the Republicans, John McCain talking about national security defense and foreign terrorism. I think Rudy Giuliani did a pretty good job of mixing criticism of John Kerry -- and talking about the president and his efforts on the war on terror. It was a good start. The only question is: How does it build? And will Vice President Cheney and President Bush close the deal?

Christine Varney

Whether Bush or Gore is elected makes very little difference on this issue. We have a 2-year Congress that is very committed to getting itself re-elected...Privacy legislation will happen.

Janet Reno

Governor Bush abdicated. He said it's not his problem. But he is the chief executive officer of this state, and there are no laws more important in this state than election laws,

Ralph Nader

Gore and Bush couldn't say no to that.

Mindy Tucker

Gov. Bush wants to strengthen Medicare by offering choice in the form of more private sector alternatives for the elderly.

Chris Paulitz

Gov. Bush is winning Texas just like he's winning the rest of the country right now. I don't think Gov. Bush or we at the RNC would feel any threat by President Clinton going down there.

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.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Mike Cordray

We've had a lot of good meets. We had some real close ones. At region, West Jordan edged us out by one point. It was fun, a good year.

Orlando McCoy

We've had a lot of close games. We're playing as a team and it's coming at the right time." ()

Sammy Young

We've had a couple of close matches this season, mainly with John Paul II. We've done well so far this season and we hope to continue to do what we've been doing.

Jay Herkelman

We've had a close relationship from the day he got here. I've always had a connection with the guys in (Kennedy's) program, and all the players from New Orleans over the years. But the stuff he had to go through in the fall, obviously it was hard for him emotionally. We just did what we could to help him.

Joe Schoenfeld

We've had some very close games at Purcell (Marian) and Alter. I think in a good way they are not worrying about the (state) poll. They are worrying about how many games we have in a row, as well as our league.

Rob Wostratzky

We've had some close games going into the postseason and hopefully, we are coming on at the right time. For the most part, we did a nice job defensively, too. Hopefully we can keep this going.

Scott Skiles

We've had so many close games in which we weren't able to make the big plays at the end.

Wu Bangguo

The successful of Shenzhou-6 is of great significance for elevating China's prestige in the world, promoting China's economic, scientific and national defense capabilities and consolidating the national cohesiveness,

Dawn Seiler

The third quarter was a clinic. To hold the other team to no points, to only have two turnovers and outscore them 14-0, that's a textbook game. The defense was so good. There were several plays where we completely disrupted their offense.

John Brady

The thing that was most impressive to me is we didn't foul on the last shot. And I've seen teams lose games because they're undisciplined and they foul. He took a tough shot. I thought he traveled before he shot. Our team did the five-switch defense on their own, which was good for them to be able to do, considering up until that point we hadn't really made too many good decisions.

Corey Romanak

The thing about volleyball is if you don't have others on the court, you can't win. We don't have the same offensive power we have had, but we have equal -- if not better -- defense and ball control. You can't throw a game like volleyball on the shoulders of one person.

Steve Smith

The thing about their defense is that there is no trick about it. We know how they are. We saw how hard they hit and how hard they play.

Adam Carriker

I've always been a Husker fan. Growing up, I remember the defense had 50-some sacks. Last year wasn't half as many. That's not good. It wasn't acceptable.

Gary Baxter

The moves they made in the off-season, those are key ingredients to a winning record. I think guys are excited about the fact that we really made some strong moves and put some guys in place on offense and defense to try to help this team get in better position to win and compete.

Romeo Crennel

After one game, if I go in there and say, 'OK, guys, this 3-4 sucks, so I'm throwing it out,' and after another game, 'Hey, this new defense I put in last week sucks, so I'm throwing that out,' then they don't have a system, they don't have a defense and they don't know what to hang their hat on,

Dion Harris

After I missed the first shot, I think I started rushing. I never did get a rhythm offensively in the game, so that's all that happened. It wasn't anything the defense was doing.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Chris Chelios

I wanted it to be like 40-below, wind, storm. That's the only thing that would have saved the Bears. That's what killed them was those passes. Too bad. It was a good year for them.

Ben Orth

I wanted to have my senior in that last match. It was a tough loss, but there was good wrestling nonetheless. We wrestled to our potential.

Arron Afflalo

I wanted to congratulate him on a good year, but I didn't want to do anything dramatic, like hug him for an hour.

Travis Williams

I wanted to come someplace where I thought we would win and a place that I thought had a good program.

Jared Zabransky

I wanted to come out and show really what I was made of. Good players have a tendency to come back. I really wanted to help my team.

Dan Camp

I wanted to come in and 'stir the pot' a little. I think that is what I have done, and I think it has been good for Starkville.

Jacob Lusk

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

John Dickinson

A doctor's signature was not good enough after 2001.

Dwyane Wade

The one thing I love about my signature performance shoe is that it's great on the court, but it also looks good with a pair of jeans.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Bill Sweeney

You have to make them pay if they throw an errant pass ? and (Ryan) really did a nice job of that.

Dan Quayle

You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.

Jessica Davenport

With her, it's not about scoring. It's about running our team. That's her job and she does it well.

Tony Rossi

You had a net job growth. It wasn't very much, but at least it was positive.

Stephen McClure

You have to go into the job description before you start hiring. There's a tendency that people worry about 'who' rather than 'what' too quickly." ()

Albert Pujols

This year, my job was to strike out less and walk more,

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Chris Hardwick

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

J. C. Ryle

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

Isabel Allende

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Irving Berlin

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

Jeff Lindsay

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

Jeff Lindsay

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Lindsey Graham

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Phil Donahue

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Peter Schiff

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

Keith Henson

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Kathleen Sebelius

[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

Ralph Stanley

[Regarding President Obama] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

Rahm Emanuel

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Rahm Emanuel

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

Tom Izzo

There's no question he's pressing right now and I kind of feel for him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Douglas Coupland

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Douglas Coupland

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Douglas Coupland

You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.

Donald Trump

I would be very, very strong on the debt limit. And I would be asking for a very big pound of flesh if I were the Republicans. And the problem with the Republicans, they have two sides. The smaller side is very strong and the other side is always agreeing and, you know, you can't do that.

Donald Trump

I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.

Donald Trump

I can only tell you there's a lot of bad things going on. They're chopping off heads in Syria, and they're chopping off heads all over the Middle East.ISIS is doing a number, and plenty of other beyond ISIS is doing it now. And all I know is that, when they start chopping off heads, we have to be very firm, we have to be very strong, we have to be very vigilant. And I heard a statement, and I disagree with his statement.

Donald Trump

I'm very, very so-called conservative on the military. I want a very, very strong military. I want to build up - you know, our military is totally depleted. We're going to care of our vets as part of that whole situation because our vets are not taken care of properly.

Donald Trump

I'm very, very strong on energy independence, as you know, and I think that's the most conservative position. And I have the most conservative position on that.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Susan Harrison

They have trouble understanding what we're talking about. Sometimes they get really frustrated.

Pierre Schaeffer

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

Noam Chomsky

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

John Green

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

Caroline Rhea

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Cassandra Clare

Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn’t talking about him, even when he knows they are.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Damon Albarn

Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

Cynthia McKinney

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

Corrine Brown

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Cotton Mather

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Cory Doctorow

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

Clive Owen

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

Clive James

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.