Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janis Karpinski

The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit ... And he said that he was going to use a template from Guantßnamo Bay to 'Gitm-oize' the operations out at Abu Ghraib.

Stop...Look...Listen...Stop thinking of yourself...Look into the painful smile of an innocent child.... and Listen to their voiceless cry for help. Child abuse is about the victim and not about those that want to cover it up. So Grow Up and Stop Blaming the Innocent Victim." Patty Rase Hopson

Kathleen Sebelius

so we don't, after the fact, cover up abuse of children.

Santiago Durango

No, we did one more as that Silver Abuse and for that we did a full set and we broke up 'cause I didn't want to play with them anymore.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Running 26 miles is quite a commitment. Just to be able to say that your body can handle that kind of abuse is a badge of honor. I thought the club was a wonderful idea. It's a good way for the students to channel their energies, and running is a lifelong activity they can do forever.

The scale of the misappropriation, abuse and tax evasion is so large that they were unable to fit it into one case,

It would be naive to believe that kind of attraction stops after age 18, ... It takes no brilliance of vision to see that the sex abuse crisis involves the great difficulty of those with same sex attraction living in close quarters with males.

It was warmer diving into the pool in Abu Dhabi.

Michael Copps

The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits that either the applicants or the majority find here. The more I review the issues at stake in this proposal, the more I am persuaded it should not go forward.

The shadier car dealers will make them think they have to accept the new terms. That is where the abuse comes in. You don't have to accept the new terms.

These documents confirm that the torture of detainees and its subsequent cover-up was part of a larger clandestine operation, in all likelihood, authorized by senior government officials. Despite mounting evidence of systemic abuse authorized or endorsed from above, however, not a single high level official has thus far been brought to justice.

Shashi Tharoor

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.

Pete Domenici

The state of Alaska has been waiting a long time to let the United States of America, which they're part of, share in their abundance of oil, and today we finally have said that it's time.

I urge everyone to offer their support to recovering addicts during this time of year, and to recognize that substance abuse affects people from all walks of life. For recovering alcoholics like myself, New Year's Eve threatens our chance to reclaim our lives. With support, however, recovering addicts can continue on their path to sobriety.

The Zimbabwean government has detained innocent people to coerce others to surrender. This is a gross abuse of the criminal justice system.

There would have been a lot of unhappy guys and a lot of talent on the street. Now, I don't think there's any question it's going to mirror more the past years of free agency. There's an abundance of money.

Karen Finney

This is going to be a huge issue. This smacks of abuse of power.

This is an important piece of legislation that would protect our children from heinous monsters who seek to abuse them. When you exercise your power, good things happen for Maine.

This is an extraordinary abuse of the legislative process: major amendments to an important law affecting substantial rights, slipped into a bill in the middle of the night, without any debate... apparently all for the benefit of a single special interest.

B. F. Skinner

This is another predictable report by an organization trying to advance an agenda through the use of distortions and errors in fact, ... It's a shame they refuse to convey how seriously the military has investigated all known credible allegations of detainee abuse and how we've looked at all aspects of detention operations under a microscope. . . . Humane treatment has always been the standard no matter how much certain organizations want people to believe otherwise.

This isn't proof that they were used, but a likely suggestion. They were present in abundance at the dawn of time and could have been useful in creating the first life form.

This is part of the church hierarchy's calculated and frankly, evil campaign to scapegoat gay people for the decades of appalling sex abuse of children and young people that it alone created, nurtured, and covered up, ... abject, willful negligence of the hierarchy.

Jason Calacanis

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

The United States will actively campaign on behalf of candidates genuinely committed to the promotion and protection of human rights and which will act as responsible members of this new body. We will also actively campaign against states that systematically abuse human rights." ()

Young people should not be doubly punished for a single misstep. Students who are forced to drop out of school are more likely to abuse drugs. Providing continued access to education is the best way to ensure they become productive taxpaying members of society.

You put your trust in companies not to abuse something like that and to use it for the greater good and it's kind of shocking when someone abuses it.

This provision would open up the legal system to abuse by people who may not pay taxes and would drive up farmers' costs of defending themselves. We're obviously against that.

Bryant H. McGill

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

Alan Cumming

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Lori Wilde

Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.

What went on at Abu Ghraib was a complete breakdown of discipline and authority, and these are merely specific acts within a sea of a multitude of specific acts,