Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Riordan

Where I've been -- I think, a good leader -- is by saying I've got a great chief of police, I'm going to back this chief, I'm not going get out there in public and emasculate him,

Marguerite Gardiner

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Andrew Forman

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

David Garrow

A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.

Daniel Kunstler

It's just good old-fashioned profitability. No smoke, no mirrors. And they have a chief financial officer who has his thumb on every nickel, which is the way to go.

Terry Coleman

And I just need to get on with my life here, and concentrate on being the chief of police here in Moose Jaw and continuing my studies at the University of Regina.

Paul Tagliabue

This decision is clearly an indication of the tremendous support the Chiefs have had from their fans in this area, and also the role of Lamar Hunt in the creation of the NFL today and the history of professional football.

Leon Panetta

It is tough enough for the Secret Service to do its job without this. If I were still chief of staff, I would order the damned site (to) pull it down.

David Ditzel

It's more appropriate for a chief technology officer to be out there talking about the future product strategy and technology development.

Thomas Johnson

This man questioned a maneuver commander in the field. It is a slap in the face to all of us. He should know the uproar is just-caused.

Amy Walter

They're running for Congress, not commander in chief. Obviously, Iraq's an important issue, but at the same time, they need be able to talk about healthcare, the economy, gas prices.

Gloria Arroyo

As commander in chief, I control the situation.

John Edward

Decisive. Strong. Is this not what we need in a commander in chief?

Charles Gittins

Commander Waddle exercised his judgment, and he did his level best. He may have fallen short on that day, but it wasn't criminal.

Rod Lurie

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for two decades. I'm excited to see how much he will electrify Commander in Chief.

Bryan Whitman

We don't want to take unnecessary risk. We do make sure that when we exercise military force we use the right resources, sufficient to get the job done. It is a decision made by the commander on the ground,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Steve Woll

We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

Edwin Louis Cole

Truth cannot be defeated.

Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

Charlie Sheen

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Mahesh Rangarajan

This is a damage-limitation move and a snap victory from the jaws of defeat.

Matt Berger

It's one of those depressing defeats because we played well in every aspect, but we just shot horrible.

Rosalynn Carter

There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to the future. Where could our lives possibly be as meaningful as they might have been in the White House?

Alan Shearer

It's a huge game for us. Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

Bill Richardson

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

Brent Scowcroft

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Pat Robertson

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.

Donald Trump

Under Islamic precepts, men cannot enter the home of a woman who they don`t know, and so they need the women in this effort to enter homes where they`re - where they`re looking for possible women terrorists, women accomplices of Boko Haram, and trying to either disarm them or get them out of that movement.

Donald Trump

Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past. People like what I say. People respect what I say. And we've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Louis C. K.

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Bill O'Reilly

Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

Bill O'Reilly

It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

Bill Moyers

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Calvin Coolidge

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Christian Stracke

Even if he doesn't win, he could be a radical voice for the left.

Alexander Lebed

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Daniel D. Palmer

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Robert Bork

Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

Renata Adler

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

Rush Limbaugh

Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Stan King

It really speaks a lot about them and their willingness to compete.

William Stafford

The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Thomas Lynch

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

John Searle

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Lucy Larcom

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.