Famous Quotes & Sayings

DeLoss Dodds

We have followed up on the rumors that we are hearing and spoken with the two student-athletes who are alleged to be under investigation.

We question whether the unionized inspectors' alleged safety concerns are genuine,

Fidel Castro

The much publicized dissidence or alleged opposition in Cuba does not exist except in the overheated imagination of the Cuban-American mob and White House and State Department bureaucrats.

Tenure laws basically provide teachers with notice of what they're alleged to have done and the opportunity to be heard.

Pressure exerted by the highest authorities in the government of China is evidence of 'political opinion' that renders their alleged common crime 'political,'

Patrick Jones

It would appear to a casual observer that the second wave of settlement offers is the product of a more difficult economic climate for the archdiocese, as well as some legitimate concern about the bona fide nature of some small percentage of these alleged abusive acts.

The statement released today is representative of the Ford Motor Co. that we've known and respected for years, not the company that was alleged to exist over the last two weeks.

The Secret Service does not comment or release information regarding our protective intelligence and protective methods. Secret Service does not discuss any alleged threats to our protectees.

A U.S. court has no jurisdiction over this alleged conduct in Canada.

That points to the guy in Turkey, who is alleged to have paid the worm author for writing Zotob.

They treated him in a very, very strict way, which is the way we treat everybody alleged to be involved with drunk driving.

Although it would not excuse such alleged acts, ... history records that the early weeks of the Korean conflict were very chaotic.

Chris Neil

There were two alleged smugglers, and apparently they were among 14 people who were able to cling to the hull of the boat after it capsized. Eleven of those people eventually floated away -- and they did not have life jackets.

Ruth Ginsburg

are not warranted by the state interests -- administrative efficiency, fraud detection, informing voters -- alleged to justify those restrictions.

Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electoral overtime that we first saw in November 2000.

Any nation that is party to the Geneva Conventions ... is obligated under international law to investigate those who are alleged to be involved with the formulation of a policy of torture or with its carrying out,

I file these because it was the right thing to do. We can't allow alleged public corruption like this to go unchecked. All I want is to be able to say is that we uncovered public corruption and we did something about it, we investigated it, we brought forth those charges that we thought were appropriate.

Essentially, it came down to a 'he said, she said. The alleged event took place behind closed doors without any independent witnesses or evidence to support the charge.

Especially the sales performance in Europe was stronger than expected. The impact of alleged product problems did not really hurt sales in Europe.

Gary Bettman

Even in those cases when there were instances of alleged provocation, we have made it clear that NHL personnel need to do everything possible to avoid a confrontation of fans, and the failure to do so is not acceptable.

Jeff Daniels

every rest area, historical mile marker and tourist trap between a grocery store parking lot in Mount Union and a hog farm in the alleged center of the United States.

They alleged 20 of them (the men) were executed and they actually saw the bodies.

What the alleged coup failed to do, in terms of weakening the peso, the president managed to. Clearly, this is detrimental to foreign sentiment.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.

Peter DeFazio

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

Contrary to the claims of proponents of the bankruptcy law changes that they would zero in on the alleged legions of 'deadbeats' who supposedly were crippling the U.S. economy ... the federal bankruptcy law changes that went into effect on Oct. 17, 2005, are doing no measurable good whatsoever.

I believe it is really beginning to soak in that he could be the person ... because they knew him years ago as a kind, loving man in the family, so the picture of what he's alleged of doing does not fit together with who they view,

Jeff Bingaman

In this time of rising oil and gas prices, the program has been the subject of criticism for alleged under-collections resulting in the public not receiving fair value for its mineral resources.

Rod Blagojevich

I have no involvement whatsoever in anything surrounding the alleged corruption at the teachers retirement system, and nobody close to me does either,

Bud Selig

I'm very troubled by the alleged depth of the relationship between certain players and those involved in the illegal distribution of performance-enhancing substances.

It now appears that the last thing many human rights groups really wanted was a thoroughly reformed human rights body at the U.N. - meaning an organization dominated by strong democracies. That would deprive them of an international forum in which to criticize America for its alleged global assault on human rights.

It's disappointing that the change of venue might diminish the satisfaction felt by the victims of his alleged crimes. The prosecutor no doubt had to balance this with pressing security needs.

Doug Jones

It's absurd. It's been a systematic investigation since four months after he was sworn into office in 1999. In this country, we are not supposed to investigate individuals. We are supposed to investigate alleged criminal activities.