Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.

Ignacio Bunye

With the President's order to make public the contents of the report, we hope that this would help end the intrigues intended to malign the President and divide our Armed Forces.

Dave Bennett

They never go out without an armed person,

Edilberto Adan

This conflict could not be sustained by bandit groups of armed men without logistics support,

Scott Wilson

We started out kind of sluggish, but we made some adjustments and came out and attacked the basket and handled the ball better.

Doug Collins

We believe that Jerry has been attacked because of his work as a union official and we are committed to do everything we can to get him reinstated.

Mark Movrich

When we attacked the basket, we got decent shots and scored. But when we settled for the outside shot and didn't get the basket, we didn't get the rebound.

Brian Penn

We're being attacked by groups of motorcyclists while we're traveling in an embassy car.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

The more we captured, the more we learned and eventually it destroyed the organization that attacked us on 9/11 and allowed us to get bin Laden.

Ron Reichle

They put a lot of pressure on us in the half court most of the game and we struggled with it. We should have gotten the ball to the free-throw line more. Once we got it on the wings, they really attacked us. We just never got anything going offensively all night.

Kip Pulliam

They happened to catch us on the wrong night. We lost last night, and that gave us some fire. We came out and really attacked on both ends.

Rod Barnes

It's mental at this point. We're at a position now where kids know the plays. Mississippi State was more aggressive. ... Mississippi State attacked us, and now I've got to get our guys ready from a mental standpoint to attack Kentucky.

Peter Cunningham

There was no indication that the black students attacked the victim because he was white. They were bullying him.

Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Steve Jobs

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Robin Schneider

(We) are pleased to see them join Dell and H-P in providing free computer recycling for their customers.

Luis von Ahn

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Cass McCombs

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Bill Walsh

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Robert Scoble

People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

Jeffrey Bewkes

If you put all these networks on-demand, it will be very powerful. And people will find them.

John Noel

It's one thing to provide someone with a job,

Sally Roth

They are provided with that, other than that they have to come up with the rest.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Leonard Edelstein

Once we got the roads in, we had to provide a place for them to stay.

Mohammad Khatami

I ... voice Iran's readiness to provide relief supplies to the quake-stricken people,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

Sid Otton

Thank you. Thank you very much. You provide us with tremendous support.

Amir Lubashevsky

Some users will provide their password to a stranger who says he is from their company's IT department.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Pam Baker

Things like that will get the teenagers out.

John Robinson

Many of these workers are teenagers and are in entry-level jobs.