Famous Quotes & Sayings

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Constance Baker Motley

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Daisy Bates

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Scott Nearing

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

David Korten

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

John Gates

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Wes Boyd

The senate and congressional campaign committees keep getting more and more narrow in their targeting - there is little work done on national message.

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Thomas Mann

Whether this has any long-term impact depends on whether a party or presidential candidate seizes the opportunity to elevate political reform as a campaign and governing issue.

David Guarino

Tom's campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with this. He knows the Murphy family but had no contact with them about this case.

Dick Cheney

We're going to take our campaign right through the heart of the swing states, the battleground states,

John Edwards

We're going to have a campaign and an election, not a coronation.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

DeLoss Dodds

I've served on many committees with Rudy. And I'm still waiting for an opportunity to speak.

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Winslow Wheeler

That the DOD appropriations legislation has been stuck at this 2.3 percent suggests a conscious, not a random, pattern. Could it be that the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have settled on a fixed percentage for their pork?

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

Mike Holmgren

At the league level -- and I sit on the committees that talk about this stuff -- they want to do everything that they can for the safety of the player, ... In warm weather, we really talk about it a lot.

Jeff Sessions

Committees would have longer to work on them. We need to do a biennial budget.

Roger Stone

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

Gary Condit

Gary stood by his principles, and he's going to continue to stand by his principles. And if they take his committees away, they take his committees away,

Andrew Maynard

Product development will always outstrip our understanding of risk, but there is a lot we can do to narrow that gap.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Danielle Brooks

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

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

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

John Deane

The Senate has the right to look at Roberts' papers.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Mitch McConnell

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.