Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Michael Luxner

There are so many pianists that play so well. Once they're at that level, the judging is so subjective.

Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Travis Pastrana

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.

William Wycherley

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

Richard Russo

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

W. H. Auden

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

Wilkie Collins

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Winona Ryder

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Samuel West

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Vincent Bugliosi

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

William Cowper

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

Sarah Fielding

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.