Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.

Nick Clegg

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

We could have avoided all these problems. The clubs are paying the price for this. The intensification of the goalkeeper issue has become a huge problem. The hunt for the job has caused a lot of problems.

Raymond Kelly

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.

We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.

When the central bank came out and said they're going to drain liquidity over a period of months, that was a catalyst for investors who have avoided the stock market to put some money back in.

I thought Jeff came in and did a reasonably good job for his team. He avoided the bad plays.

Ben Bernanke

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.

George Davis

We catch a lot of flak, ... They give us a lot of ribbing over that. I just say, 'I'm just the low man on the totem pole.' I don't feel responsible. I don't know if we would have stayed if we would have avoided that or not.

I'm a little disappointed. I felt they should have avoided the houses and gone with another route.

Jim Crace

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

I feel very happy with the deal because we spent a long time negotiating and we avoided arbitration.

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Jeff Gordon

I think it could have been avoided by both of us and it cost us both a lot.

Ruben Aguilar

It could have been avoided if the union had obeyed the law. The rule of law implies respect for the law.

Josh Smith

It could have been avoided because obviously a fan isn't supposed to dehumidify a room.

He was a fair piece up there (alongside Cheever). But it could have been avoided by both parties.

Marc Bulger

He definitely hunted me down like that. But it's football. I could've easily avoided him and ran away. But those things happen.

Christine Whitman

has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers throughout ... the world.

He drove the ball in the past but he avoided the contact. Now, he's jumping through the contact. He's confident. He's a senior that wants to win, that knows this is his last go-around and he's going at it with a lot of passion.

Jim Murphy

I don't believe that we can justify any war that we've been in since I can remember - World War II, we had President Bush's grandfather helping finance German industry. I think that we could have avoided war if there wasn't money involved. MacArthur provoked Korea and Vietnam was obviously engineered.

Jackie Earle Haley

I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

We've always avoided it because of the huge human workload.

Where the credit is really due is in the early part of Greenspan's tenure: being faced with the aftershocks of the Wall Street crash in 1987 and dealing with that quite well. He confronted some very serious potential crises and got us to a point where we avoided them and are better off than we might have been otherwise.

Niall Ferguson

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Nell Newman

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

We've avoided the issue as much as we can. It's a big game for us because we are facing Hickman, not coach Riley.

Julie King

We've avoided the fate of other bankrupt carriers. We're still in the game.

We've avoided a race because it is inappropriate, and it may make you make some bad decisions. The damage is not just to the patient but the reputation of the whole field.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Symington

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.