Famous Quotes & Sayings

They'll have to do some work to get the branches up to snuff.

Ron Wyden

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

Richard King

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

That sort of gave me the feel that he would be able to play at that level. At what branch of that level, I wasn't totally sure.

That ruling doesn't simply hit innocent men now in their fifth year of imprisonment. It goes to whether we have a judicial branch at all. This is that rare question so vital that the Supreme Court should immediately intervene to answer.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

We need to get clarity about who is in charge of the government: three branches or one.

The Great American Cleanup allows us to branch out from the Adopt-A-Street program to other communities and schools. It also gives us an opportunity to visit schools and teach about litter prevention and recycling.

Tom Lantos

to develop a complete picture of the decision-making that led the United States to go to war. ... And the Executive Branch owes it to the American people to make certain that their elected representatives are fully informed.

Dante Alighieri

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

Bayard Taylor

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

Adrian Grenier

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Paul Cayard

The race is a fantastic experience. I decided this whole thing about being a pirate and promoting a film is a great opportunity for our sport to branch out.

Ariel Sharon

To an outstretched hand of peace we will respond with an olive branch but expressions of terror will be met by fire more intense than ever.

There has been a lot of movement of people of one sect or another into certain branches of the military or the police. We've tried, but it's hard to integrate them. But I don't see that there's any mood to integrate at this point.

We don't need to spend a lot of money to make the point that we are able to exist outside of the PC. We've been in all those markets for many years...we don't have to convince the world that we can successfully branch out.

John Knowles

We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation.

When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.

We would like to expand our branch operations on a wholly owned basis. We're in constant dialogue with the insurance regulator, and I hope to visit him very soon in Beijing.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Mark Billingham

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

Harry Reid

If confirmed to this lifetime job, John Roberts would become the leader of the third branch of the federal government and the most prominent judge in the nation. The Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

Our Evans branch continues our investment in northern Colorado Front Range communities.

John Grahame

Our agronomy and grain branch managers, bookkeepers and office staff were very involved in the final decision. Having the right software is critical to our business. If the field doesn't like the software, they don't use it right. Or if the software has a limitation, those limitations constrain our people and the information we capture. If the information going in isn't correct, you are limiting the quality of the financial information.

People don't know that there is room for negotiation and that it is Town Meeting who decides. I feel it is like Congress, it is the legislative branch of town government.

Do you open a limited branch? Or will you have a loan officer that goes out to a remote area? ... One thing that this product can do is be a leading indicator of whether you should open a branch in a new area.

Chen Shui-bian

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing - or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology.