Famous Quotes & Sayings

Since 1995, Governor Pataki has said he wanted the Port Authority to return to its core mission of transportation,

Marcia Angell

Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,

She can really rip the ball with authority to all fields.

Leonard Maltin

She could be dogmatic, of course and Lord help you if you disagreed -- that was the tone of many of her reviews. But she spoke with great authority and great love. She loved movies and that was crystal clear every time you read her.

She does have to look to the authority figures around her and glean what to do,

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Newt Gingrich

No Palestinian official should talk about or threaten bloodshed, but yet it is a routine pattern in this region for the Palestinian Authority to, in effect, incite violence,

Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them-the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Needless to say, we are relieved to know that your local authorities treat such crimes with the seriousness that they deserve.

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

She was putting a lot of pressure on herself in the early games. It all came together (against Pennington). She had good shots. She's gone to goal with authority before, but she was really moving the goalie and shooting where she wanted to shoot.

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Ahmed Chalabi

meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

My job is to keep people out of court. If there is a (medical) decision with no authority, you go to the courts.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

We need to move forward, and I think the faster we can have an Iraqi authority in charge of things, the better we can improve the situation,

Bill Stern

I grew up in South Carolina. There are a lot of things about state government that we're not proud of where we rank. The ports authority is not one of them.

If they remained in our control, we know where they went, ... If they were taken out by the authorities, we don't know.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Geoff Smith

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

Hillary Clinton

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

We came down here for a learning type thing. But we hit the ball with authority at times and we made some hard outs.

Rudolph Giuliani

We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.

Chris Edwards

While tax authorities have increased surveillance and regulation in a bid to stem the flow of investment capital and profits to low-tax jurisdictions, it's easier to shift money around than it used to be thanks to technology. Both legal avoidance and illegal evasion techniques have become more accessible.

Anthony DeCurtis

Who's going to do it? Who has the authority to kind of step into that role and speak for everybody?

There is tremendous pressure on India and Pakistan from the international community to resolve the dispute, ... I can tell you with authority that the Kashmir issue is heading towards a resolution.

At its core, the legal question is how to balance parents' basic and comprehensive authority over children and the state's right to interfere.

Mark Pryor

As we consider legislation, we must also be careful to ensure that any new regulatory regime reserves sufficient authority to ensure that competitive dynamics in communications markets are maintained,

As written, the voters will not have any authority over decisions like those made by past City Councils to shortchange the pension system.

John Roberts

allows the judge to incorporate his or her own personal preferences, cloak them with the authority of precedent -- because they're finding precedent in foreign law -- and use that to determine the meaning of the Constitution.

Mark Regev

(Abbas) goes by the motto of 'one authority, one law, one security service'. But we don't see him putting this motto into use.