Famous Quotes & Sayings

These waters have become a pirate's charter and unless the international community takes action against these criminals, vessels passing this coast face considerable danger,

The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action.

These type of actions will only will lead to further violence and will hinder the chances for a peace process.

These students need to learn that actions have consequences. We also take time to talk with students one on one about how these decisions will affect them down the road.

Bill Richardson

This is inexcusable; I'm outraged, ... It's incomprehensible what happened. I'm going to take action. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. There's going to be accountability.

I want to show it. I'm not the one who is going to talk. I'd rather go out and let my actions speak for it rather than talk a bunch of game. As far as I'm concerned, nothing is going to be given to me. In the back of my mind there's five spots and I'm competing for one of those five spots.

Robert Byrd

Once the action is taken by Congress to pass this tax cut, that money is going out. There is no guesswork to that.

not only has Sen. Frist likely engaged in illegal activity, he has also been attempting to cover up his actions by suddenly finding a conflict of interest that he never before recognized. Sen. Frist would be wise to consider Martha Stewart's case as he continues down this path.

Not reporting the discharge of a department firearm is a serious violation of department policy, leading us to conclude that termination is the appropriate action in this case.

Curtis Brown

A City Council must take action that essentially puts the city's stamp of approval on the project. This represents in no way, shape or form liability from the city. We assign all of the rights and obligations as the lender to a third party, a trustee.

The negotiation process is up to the African Union and the United Nations Security Council. I told them it is up to them what action to take to make sure that the implementation happens,

The NBA's decision to remove a referee from officiating games based on a judgment call is in complete contradiction of the established NBA's officiating performance standards. Jackson's actions will definitely have a chilling effect on the high quality officiating presently provided by NBRA officials.

James Hansen

After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

After we took some action then they were going to take some steps.

After today, any/all such containers shall be considered contraband and will result in disciplinary action.

It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.

Any action that the United Nations takes in that, including freezing assets, will be undertaken by Saudi Arabia,

Any action that the state can take to encourage the study of math and science is a positive step.

Any action that may be planned will already be under way.

Any one of these violations, we think, would void the action of Norton to allow the casino to be built. The issues we are raising are very important and solid issues, which I think the court has to consider very seriously.

Any time you have good running backs and you can pound the ball, it creeps up that defense. That play action works very well, and that's what happened with Hart.

It shows that we did take action, that we didn't just come with hype.

It's his arm action. Then, he gathers himself well on the mound and lets it go. (Olson) even commented that his arm action is better than it was a month ago.

It shows how just somebody riding in the back seat of a car in a remote part of a remote desert, and somebody sitting at a desk at NSA could actually hear their voice and take action immediately.

Bruce Bochy

It's hard to throw much better than that, ... He made it look easy. He had great command, good sinking action and was getting ground balls. He made adjustments, and it looks like he took it out there.

It's been a few weeks since we've had any action so that's what we're waiting on.

It's a very simple case as far as we're concerned. The New York Times is selling photos of NBA game action on their internet site without our permission and in violation of their agreement not to do so which is contained in the media credentials we issue to the Times and other news organizations, ... In the first place, we asked them to stop. They haven't stopped, so we have to ask the court to look into this.

It's been a long time, and we believe the time is now for action.

George Romero

It's gotta be scary, obviously, but I don't want to go crazy with it. I don't want to make another zombie film. I'd rather make a good action film involving zombies.

It's quite obvious that the lack of action by the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure is one of the main reasons these actions are still taking place. The other thing wrong is the assumption that if the groups are allowed into the elections they can be co-opted. The ones paying the price are us.

Richard Armitage

It's quite clear that there will be some actions on the part of India responding to the messages I brought

It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.

It's really neat and encouraging as a Christian that he's so bold about his faith. His actions support what he says he believes in.