Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

This feels like some attempt at accountability. And that's what I really like about it.

This bill attempts to tax one industry for the benefit of another industry. It is simply not good public policy.

This is a blurring of the margins of people who are engaged in non-violent political speech, an attempt to bunch them in with extremists and terrorists,

Raila Odinga

This is an attempt to turn the clock backward. The Kenyan people will resist this attempt.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.

This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

This is an attempt to play a shell game with the law.

This is an attempt to get discovery they are not entitled to - it's also six months too late.

This is an attempt to disrupt the very trusting (doctor-patient) relationship, one which is very important when a patient is ill, ... When they come to their physician, (patients) need to trust that physician, not think that they're crooks.

Matthias Platzeck

This is an attempt to discredit the policies of Gerhard Schroeder, policies that were right.

This is an attempt to broker a compromise that has completely backfired,

This is an attempt by Nippon Sheet Glass to smooth out the business cycle so they are not totally dependent on supplying glass to liquid crystal displays. Once Nippon Sheet Glass gets the Japanese carmakers under its belt, it can then sell to the European manufacturers.

Arjuna Mahendran

This is an attempt by Indonesia to try and supplement their oil output because they have not been very successful in inviting foreign investment into their country to boost domestic production.

This is a further attempt by the Brooklyn district attorney's office to besmirch Lou's excellent reputation and to discredit an otherwise outstanding and remarkable police career, ... With Lou's career, there is nothing to ever run from.

This is a desperate attempt to remake their faltering image.

This is a deliberate attempt by high level members of organized crime to make a lot of money,

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th century, never mind the 21st century,

They (the guidelines) are designed as a desperate attempt to fend off real regulation of drug ads.

It's not that he was Michael Jordan, but who is filling the 10 (points) and four (rebounds per game)? Who is even attempting that? Somebody just has to step up.

For many kids, the only thing they know about money is how to spend it. By making classroom presentations on budgeting, savings and the value of compound interest, bank employees are attempting to turn the tide and create a generation of savers.

For a while, that can is going to take the cake. This was one of the more elaborate attempts -- it required creativity.

It's one more attempt to create a theocracy.

Don Catlin

It's obfuscation. There is no attempt to be clear and concise and to describe the product for what it is.

It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

This meeting was an attempt to do the people's work. We are hereby calling for another meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m.

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

There was no attempt to determine who was accountable on the 9/11 Commission. This time, there's got to be accountability. If you're an elected official, you should be inviting accountability for yourself.

There was no attempt by IDOT to drag this case out.

There were no poisons made. There seemed to be a pathetic, clumsy, amateurish attempt to make some by a man who was conceded by all to be a difficult, anti-social loner.

Edward Kennedy

The Republican proposals of finding of facts are really not the findings of fact, they are findings of fiction, ... It's a desperate attempt to further embarrass the president of the United States and it's an attempt to save their own political position.