Famous Quotes & Sayings

John O. Brennan

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

We're treating those remains with the ultimate respect and care that they deserve.

We're thrilled with the outcome. It's from our perspective a huge win, because (Ashby) has never been about the money. It's been about being able to move his career forward.

We saw a car rolling over into a pond. It was happening so fast.

We saw about 200,000 homes that need to be bulldozed. It's ridiculous. We saw houses with cars still on top of them. We saw a two-story house with a tractor-trailer upside-down on top of it.

We knew there was no way we could look for a mortgage with a $500-a-month car payment.

We knew that if we got one goal on them that they were going to get a little shaky. We didn't care what people wrote at home in the newspapers or on TV because the team believed.

We knew it was kind of new, but we chose to go with the frozen egg. We thought for the expense, anything could happen. Plane flights could be canceled. That person could get into a car accident.

David Miliband

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

We just work really well as a team. No one cares about their point totals. If there's an open person, we're going to pass it to them. We're all about that and stopping the other team.

David Pearson

We just worked hard at it, ... They had the car set up on the edge. If something had happened and I had to hit the brakes, I wouldn't have had any. They were pushing everything to the limit, using special grease in the wheel bearings and things like that - stuff you wouldn't really need today, but you did then.

Joe Manchin

We need to do a much better job of educating our children about their career choices.

We thought the Charger was a good option and a good car. We've proven it's a really good car this year and we're pretty happy to be racing the Charger.

Jim Lehrer

We thought that once we had turned the town over to the local people, that they would be able to defend their own territory and take care of themselves,

We thought it would be a different card in every city. It was just a surprising thing.

We thought it was very important to tell our readers that the reaction to these cartoons was outrageous and that reaction needed some sort of condemnation by the free world and that this was inappropriate and we needed to speak up.

We thought he'd go on and win it when he got in front in the stretch. He'd never gone that far before, or carried more weight, but those are just excuses, and I don't want to make excuses. We thought he'd win.

Sid Meier

We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.

We think we're in better shape now than we were two years ago. What we have to do is keep repaving our roads and take care of them instead of letting them go to long without having to resurface them again.

We think this is the American dream, of driving your car fast, seeing what it can do. All these guys with all that horsepower in their car, and they can't do anything with it.

We're not in arrears. We're out of credit card debt.

We're redirecting resources to serve uninsured individuals without many treatment options. While most existing clients will phase out of treatment before the consolidation is complete, we will ensure those who need continued care find alternative, local treatment, and we will continue to offer referral service should future need arise.

Women go about taking care of children and they're quick to tell their spouses and friends to run to the emergency room if they have chest pain, but they tend to downplay it if they feel it themselves.

Why should we discourage people from paying for health care out of their pocket as opposed to through their insurance, the result of which is we tend to over-insure because that gives us a tax break.

Why should they care if all we do is turn the channel and go back to dinner? When it's on 24/7, people do something about it.

Why Michael won't let them do that is not understandable. It would be so easy for him to get on with his life ... so these parents could take care of their daughter.

Why I would go with Reese Witherspoon ... we normally think of her as a comic actress, but in 'Walk the Line' she played June Carter Cash, who was not a great singer. She was a decent singer, but not a Frank Sinatra or a Barbra Streisand.

Why does everybody care so much? I know it's going to be on the headlines but I don't know what it's supposed to mean.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

We've cut back significantly on the total number of requests that we're making. Secondly, we are documenting those requests even more carefully than we have before.

We've clearly shown that we're a lot better making defensive and offensive plays down the stretch. We're doing a much better job now. That confidence and momentum should carry us.

We've certainly demonstrated that there are at least a core group of people who get elected to public office who will ... put their careers on the line to do what they think is right irrespective of what the shifting winds of popular opinion might be. And we are content to let history be the ultimate judges.

Ed Rendell

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