Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lawson

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.

Getting these systems approved is our top priority, and we are laser-focused on it. But Secretary McPherson can't force vendors to come forward with qualified systems.

Frankly we just thought we could not approve the project in good faith,

From what we can see, no current employee approved the trading arrangements, and that gives us a measure of comfort.

Larry King

If a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it?

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy.

James T. Walsh

If an adjuster looks at your house after the storm passes and sees that you made a good effort to mitigate further damage, he or she is more likely to approve the claims you make.

If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more exercise, approved medications or even surgical approaches, we would be rewarded with significantly better health,

I don't want to approve something, collect the money and not have the (general fund) money to match it.

I encourage you not to approve deficit spending.

Tom Daschle

If the stories in the media over the past week are accurate, the president has exercised authority that I do not believe is granted to him in the Constitution, and that I know is not granted to him in the law that I helped negotiate with his counsel and that Congress approved in the days after September 11.

If we make people think they are approved plots of land, then people might go out there to look at it.

If the County Board doesn't want to approve the money to continue, then it's over. Maybe Mr. Holloway has finally won.

If the council determines not to approve the funding, we assume that will be consistent with a decision not to complete the investigation.

If the Guidant shareholders approve the acquisition on Jan. 31, we would close shortly thereafter.

If the government does not have a majority (in Congress), getting its tax objectives and other measures approved would not be so easy.

If some customers look shady, we don't approve the pump unless they prepay. They can't steal if they can't turn on the pump.

If some customers look shady, we don't approve the pump unless they prepay, ... They can't steal if they can't turn on the pump.

He would, I suspect have approved of the brevity if nothing else.

I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give them a first. I had made my mind up and it had already been approved so we were going to go with that regardless.

I worked on the presentation for the school district for the past year. It was worth it, because they unanimously approved it last December.

If we get to the point and vote witnesses, we will have approved a process by which we will ensure that they have a chance to depose those witnesses first and so on, ... It will be a process that gives the president's lawyers ample time to depose that witness first and be able to be treated fairly.

If this deal isn't approved by the U.S., it wouldn't proceed.

If this proposal is approved in Minnesota, it will have a disastrous effect on consumers. It will force good drivers and responsible homeowners to subsidize those with poor loss histories by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

She was brought up in that upper class tradition of keeping quiet, keeping that stiff upper lip, and I think she's been very wise to keep as private as she has through this period. I think people have respect for that even if they might not approve of anything else.

Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Also 60 per cent of the ridings have to approve the change.

Jeff Sessions

I have been of the view that if we in Congress can't balance the budget, we shouldn't approve a pay raise.

Mark Twain

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it

I can't say anything now because the project should be approved by the State Council.

I can't guarantee it. It is important to us to get FEMA to approve us,

John Deane

I found that in March of 1973, that Bob Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, was told by one of the lawyers over at the re-election committee that Jeb was saying to them that the plan to break in the Watergate had been approved by the president,

Joel Fuhrman

Chemicals are not currently tested for their endocrine disruption potential before they are approved for use and enter our environment, and there are endocrine disruptors in a vast array of products we come into contact with every day, including organochlorine pesticides, plastics, fuels, and other industrial chemicals.

By that time, a bid must have been approved for the senior center,