Famous Quotes & Sayings

California has a strong public policy protecting employees' rights to freely choose where they can work, and we are asking the court to vindicate this right.

Can you work with me on this? I've got some major issues here. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm really not.

Can you force this district attorney to present (charges of perjury) to a grand jury? That's what we're asking for.

I'm trying not to be greedy in my decision making process and I'm asking everyone to cooperate with this.

I'm totally uncomfortable asking my students to fund-raise for my pay, we already fund-raise just for the activities. I can't do it. It's not professional.

I'm not telling people not to give to Katrina, because God knows they need it, ... But we're going to be asking them to help our needs locally. We are always going to have a segment of our population that's going to need our help.

I'm not surprised. There must be 29 teams asking about Roberto.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something, ... Rather than asking me for my autograph, you're actually watching a movie with me. If you want to sit there and talk about how to get into the business and ask me questions about 'Pulp Fiction' I'm not going to be very responsive. I'll probably shut you down. All right? But if you want to talk to me about the movie we just showed and what you thought about it, I'll talk to you all (expletive) night.

I'm hopeful. You're asking the coach, and I'm gonna be as positive as I can.

Bill Clinton

I'm having to become quite an expert at this business of asking for forgiveness, and it gets a little easier the more you do it. And if you have a family, an administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice.

Dan Brown

I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

I may have a candidate that I actually gets introduced to members of the city council (Thursday), ... If not, I could even see the possibility of asking the council to come back together before the next (regular) meeting on Sept. 15.

Eugene Field

I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.

Kwame Kilpatrick

I'm asking you to trust what you raised, ... I'm asking you to give me another chance to move this city forward.

I'm asking you to please upgrade that property,

I'm asking you to find him guilty, but find him guilty for what he did.

I'm asking you to do nothing more or nothing less than to follow the law. I'm asking you to find a reasonable doubt.

Vicente Fox

I'm asking you for zero unemployment, ... I'm asking you not fire anyone, to keep them in their regular positions or use them in rebuilding.

I'm asking the people of Scotland to shout with me, do they think that this is acceptable?

I'm asking them to be older than their years. But they were also baptized by fire. We took a pretty good caning early on, and hopefully you learn from that. Every game we'll play the rest of the league schedule will be like tonight.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm asking our citizens to please understand the seriousness of our situation, ... ... It is too dangerous to come home.

Steve Rauschenberger

I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.

Walter Mondale

I'm asking for your help to build a future that Paul Wellstone would have liked to have seen,

Kwame Kilpatrick

I'm asking for unity in this community, ... We understand this chair represents all of Detroit.

I'm asking every North Carolinian to be in a safe place, take care of your families and don't come out, ... Meanwhile, I want people to say prayers for their neighbors.

I opted to give him a break after the Manhattan. He didn't have any major problems. I've been pointing for this race for a long time. I figure he runs well fresh, and he wants to go the distance. Naturally I'm a little nervous bringing him back off the layoff and asking him to go this far, but I think he should run well.

I remember asking them what took them so long to find me.

Marilyn Miller

In these times board members and the public are constantly asking us to come up with innovative ways to deal with rising costs,

I have to say that the Town Council and the Board of Finance have been very consistent in giving us a three to four percent increase. This proposed budget is very lean even though we are asking for a seven percent increase.

Peter Cullen

If I were the minister I'd be grabbing the chief executive by the ear and pulling him over and asking him what's going on.

William Martin

I had situations where they were bringing, you know, I started asking what's on the truck before you bring it here. Because if it's clothing, we can't use that. We have too much clothes already people are not using.

I had another call today from a parent, asking if they could try out next year.

Jerry Maren

I never seen a little person in my life eye-to-eye, ... Asking all these questions to little people made me feel much better because I knew I was not alone.