Famous Quotes & Sayings

Devin Nunes

While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations, the answer is simple: Democratic politicians, who have near-total political control of California and of America's biggest cities, support this massive transfer of wealth to public employees.

We have many more questions than answers right now.

Mike Reid

We will certainly get you the answer to this.

We've offered to sit down and answer any specific questions. To this point Greg has not availed himself of that, but we are ready to sit down and discuss any questions he has.

Chris Duhon

We watched a lot of film, just trying to get answers and trying to figure out what causes us to play that way. We were definitely embarrassed by a mediocre team. We don't want to be a team that's great one night and terrible the next night. We have to do whatever it takes to be a consistent team.

Craig MacDonald

We are excited to be able to bring some closure to one of New England's most mysterious shipwrecks. The story of the Steamship Portland and its fatal last run from Boston to Portland, Maine, has intrigued maritime historians for years due to the wide-ranging reported sightings of the ship during the storm. This mission allows us to start putting some answers to the questions about its loss.

We are dropping too many passes. If that continues, then that'll answer your questions about what we are going to do with all those running backs. We'll put the wishbone in.

Harry Reid

The President is off to a bad start. He owes the American people honest answers on whether he wants to reform Social Security or privatize it.

Gordon Brown

Two great issues of our time are addressed by Jim Wallis, and his thought-provoking answers make powerful reading for anyone interested in social change. Jim Wallis challenges us to create a society that both addresses injustice and stresses personal responsibility, and his call for a global covenant through which rich countries meet their obligations to the poor will have a resonance throughout the world.

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

Chris Van Allsburg

When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.

When she's asked any questions, if she can't tell you the answer, she's got the answer before the meeting is over, ... I've never had an attorney general who's so diligent.

Andrew Lo

Finance and economic research has hit a wall. We can't answer any more questions by running another regression analysis. Now, we need to get inside the brain to understand why people make decisions.

Scott Stevens

first concern is to keep people up to date, to involve our listeners and to answer their questions.

Philip Pullman

Fighting isn't the right response to bullying-for adults. Adults have to find out what makes the bully the way he is and look for reasons and answers and understanding. That's an adult's responsibility.

Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kind of people that you are looking for and pay careful attention to their answers and body language.

Geno Auriemma

The really good teams, the way they separate themselves is they play well on the road. I'm really happy with our guys, because we answered a lot of different challenges tonight. When we needed a stop, we got one. If we needed a turnover, we got one. When we needed a bucket ... I liked the way we responded to all the things thrown at us.

There are a lot of questions investigators have, and some of them we hope to have answered today.

Carlos Delgado

There are no tickets left; they sold out. There is no other way to answer that.

Floyd Abrams

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Conrad Black

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Clyde Edgerton

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Ridley Scott

For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.

We came in and I told them that this is why you play the game. So we came out and we answered them and it took the wind out of their sails. I'm proud of the way we swung the bats tonight. We put the ball in play and made things happen.

We offer parents and coaches a night to come and ask questions. And we try to give the answers and show the coaches some drills to make it more exciting for the kids. It doesn't have to be boring, it can be fun and the kids can still learn at the same time.

David Blunkett

We obviously have the right to go back to Parliament and to say 'We, the sovereign body who are elected, are the only ones in the end who are answerable for the protection of security and stability in our country,'

We picked each other up with big two-out hits and we answered immediately after Connecticut put up some runs.

Ben Chandler

When Kentucky's veterans answered the call to duty, they showed our nation the ultimate respect. In return, they deserve no less from their government and fellow citizens, ... We made promises to our Veterans, and we must uphold those promises.

When real businesses choose to use open source, they can't be dependent on sending an e-mail to some distribution list and hoping some smart kid in Finland answers it. They need to know they can phone one organization that's going to be accountable and take them through the whole process.

J. Taylor

While quite a few people say they would like to buy together, the simple answer is that they are not. Their first preference appears to be buying with a partner, which is less risky than buying with friends. There are some products on the market for buyers who do want to buy with friends, but the take-up of these is low.

Enid Bagnold

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.