Famous Quotes & Sayings

Circulation of such scurrilous material is not becoming of a senior member of the Foreign Service. The Ministry of External Affairs will deal with the matter in accordance with its well established norms.

By comparison, this is much like an internal affairs (IA) division within a local police department.

Alexis de Tocqueville

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society

He told him that he serves with Sen. Akaka on the Veterans Affairs Committee, and he has seen firsthand how hard he works for our nation's veterans and for the people of Hawaii.

E. P. Thompson

Games between Coventry and Belfast are always close affairs and this was no exception.

Walter Kirn

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

John Adams

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Edward Everett

In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.

Because we were terminated, we weren't eligible for any of those things, so if my children wanted to go to college and apply for a Bureau of Indian Affairs scholarship -- we're not Indian,

John C. Calhoun

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

There is a report sent to delegations, ... There was no report on the table. There's nothing exceptional or extraordinary about it. It's not like ministers of foreign affairs lie awake at night thinking about a report on East Jerusalem. They get lots of reports.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

We deal within the framework of the regime, and on the matter of foreign affairs the government implements this policy. Nothing special has happened in this regard.

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

We do not want to interfere in the internal affairs of any other country but the situation in Nepal seems to be spinning out of control.

Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood or affairs should never influence your work

This approach may be legitimate with taxpayers who are known evaders. But it's very upsetting when a company's affairs are actually in order - especially for individual officers who can be made personally liable. There have been cases of people being wrongfully arrested.

Matt Leinart

With the combined team of CAA, Chuck, Leigh, and Air 7, I am confident that my business affairs are in the very best hands. This gives me the freedom to focus on becoming the best football player I can be.

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.

The team vigorously participated in international rescue tasks and gave quick response and made remarkable achievements in the rescue work, fully illustrating China's important role in international humanitarian affairs and further demonstrated that China is a responsible country in the international society.

The suspension was issued following a letter of request from the Minister of Home Affairs dated Sept. 6.

It's a sad state of affairs when you raise victims' rights to the same level as the constitutional rights of the accused.

James Reston

The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

King Hussein

I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people.

Carroll Quigley

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.

The market has become interested in European affairs and there is probably a certain amount of investors out there who question the long-term feasibility of the EU.

Ellen Johnson

The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,

Kofi Annan

The essential part of the discussion, ... try and establish an Iraqi administration that would be responsible for running its own affairs -- and not so much for the U.N. to take over the management of Iraq.

All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.

Eugene Jarecki

All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers to the public. They want to tell you that the bombs they make make war safer for civilians.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Alexandra Robbins

A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.