Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Charles Lee

We're hopeful that Florida's congressional delegation will nip this one in the bud.

Kenneth Starr

This constitutes an excessive delegation of power by the executive branch.

Michael Jackson

The Yugoslav delegation presented a proposal that would not guarantee the safe return of all the (ethnic Albanian) refugees (and) the full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces,

Mark Brown

It's the result of a unified delegation putting together a full-court press.

Jimmy Carter

Our delegation members and others witnessed serious irregularities and overt electoral fraud in a number of states,

Dana Fenton

Our congressional delegation has really come through for us with PRTC. Over the years we've gotten $15 million in federal earmarks.

Jan Balkenende

The mood in the Turkish delegation is one of disappointment,

Christopher Hill

Some delegations prefer to leave some things more ambiguous, my delegation would like to see things less ambiguous.

Veton Surroi

We have expressed our position that we want the whole delegation on the plane. When the whole delegation is at the plane we will be in it.

Ian Stannard

The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright victory by Merkel.

James Lankford

There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.

John Earl

OPG is not considering anything as a site. We have no mandate for that.

Larry Smith

There's no mandate that they be open. There's no mandate that they pump gas. There's no mandate to do anything.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Charles Hasse

It doesn't work well to mandate that from the state.

Ken Hammond

Any time you mandate something, you're going to have more resistance to it.

Chris Stein

Being inducted seems to mean a lot to a lot of people, and by proxy that has sort of rubbed off on me. But it's not necessarily a mandate from the masses, so I don't know. We'll see.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Richard Blumenthal

The modified measures should deflate Microsoft's overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Hosni Mubarak

We will take much tougher measures in the area,

Viviane Reding

But if self-regulation does not work then we will have to take some measures ... We will have a look at this after six months,

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Lincoln Chafee

It's a very tenuous security situation, ... I'd been there a year ago -- what a change.

Christopher Shays

Awesome. This wasn't about Connecticut. This was about the security of the United States. & It was an overwhelming vote by the commission.

Max Baucus

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Chuck Austin

Our distributed support and security system was failing.

Richard Pennington

The things we need for security aren't getting done,

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Juergen Peters

We wanted security and security is what we have got.