Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Gray

We continue to work with leadership to draft a bill that will provide the necessary borrowing authority as expeditiously as possible.

Javier Solana

We are trying to provide the necessary resources we hope that we will have enough money to support the Palestinian Authority until a new government is formed.

We are trying to get the Department of Defense to create a line item in their budget and give somebody the authority to go out and strategically buy satellite capacity.

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Mark Twain

Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority

Arlen Specter

Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,

Michael Chertoff

Completing the Border Infrastructure System will strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry to the United States. Congress provided us the authority to ensure this project is completed, and I intend to use it,

Edward Kennedy

Do you believe that we have the authority and the power to pass legislation to free ourselves from the stains of racial discrimination?

Harry Reid

There's a dark cloud hanging over the White House. It's really a storm cloud. The vice president, who gets his authority from the president, sadly is in the middle of that storm,

There's lots of speculators betting that we're going to break the 8 yuan per dollar level soon. The authorities are very averse to speculators trying to make money, so they're making it hard for them.

Randy Pausch

Respect authority while questioning it.

Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde

Authority is quite degrading.

John Prescott

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

I believe in the word of the U.S. authorities. They have expressed themselves clearly in the proper relation. Let's hope that they will find a way to simply convert its words into actions.

I don't think the state of North Dakota has the authority to collect the tax to begin with. I think they're in violation of our sovereign rights, and of federal law.

However, in the event of a disaster when minutes count, we have the authority to do what it takes to move quickly.

Jeanne Shaheen

However, under New Hampshire law, Secretary Gardner has the authority to set the date of the primary. Secretary Gardner's decision will stand, and we must now focus our efforts on protecting our primary.

However, the Turnpike Authority will certainly work with the administration and the Legislature on any proposals that may benefit the state.

However, China's police authority would not sit by and be apathetic and indifferent to law-violating behaviors or content on the Internet.

I'm sure we'll continue to be in contact with the authorities as they deal with a very difficult situation. The meeting yesterday was in a sense a six-month review. I think the operative note is that the board decided not to restore Zimbabwe's voting and related rights and not return any signing eligibility to use the resources of the Fund.

Anderson Cooper

In hindsight, you think, yeah there are things you could have done. But at the time we had multiple sources telling us the information and we had people in positions of authority ... telling us the information was correct. When you have officials telling you something and eyewitnesses telling you something, at some point you have to rely on that information.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,

Kweisi Mfume

I know that gay bashing and immigrant bashing and union bashing at the end of the day rob us of our moral authority ....

Ruth Kelly

If there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option.

William Keeler

If there's any kind of wrongdoing, it should be reported immediately to authorities and it should be dealt with promptly. That certainly is what we look for as we have come through a learning process that has been constructive and painful.

If the Palestinian Authority cannot impose law and order in the most basic manner that is required to have a functioning civil society, how do they expect to establish a Palestinian state living peacefully side by side with Israel?

Keith Richards

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Sathya Baba

If one loses wealth, he may regain it by some means or other. If he loses health, some doctor might prescribe a tonic to win it back. If one loses status and authority he may, by sheer luck, gain them back. If Virtue is lost, it is lost forever; nothing can restore the pristine purity. So one has to be ever vigilant and should never slacken.

I have no idea what the Ports Authority is thinking and I never have. We're moving forward with the condemnation and feel confident it's back on track and are delighted that the Supreme Court ruling justified our right to build a marine terminal on the Savannah River.

Vito Fossella

I have no confidence in Hamas as a responsible leader of the Palestinian Authority nor do I believe the terrorist group wants peace with Israel.

O. Henry

I guess all things have to end, and they ended (the scoreless stretch) with authority.