Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Panetta

It is tough enough for the Secret Service to do its job without this. If I were still chief of staff, I would order the damned site (to) pull it down.

It's more appropriate for a chief technology officer to be out there talking about the future product strategy and technology development.

It's not how many times it's being used, ... It's that is it needed. All of the fire chiefs jobs are to be ready to protect, whether it be the one-story or the high rise.

The Fed's chief worry is still the labor market. So long as the unemployment rate does not fall further, and clear signs of consumer slowed own emerge, the Fed will be able to leave rates on hold.

The Fed's chief worry is still the labor market, ... So long as the unemployment rate does not fall further, and clear signs of consumer slowed own emerge, the Fed will be able to leave rates on hold.

The CEC has tallied the official results of the elections, and it is the chief of state who sets the inauguration date. We expect that this will be in the first part of April.

I'm delighted he's been given the opportunity to fulfill, what I have been told is a lifelong dream, to become a police chief of a small town. But, I'm also a little saddened that we won't have him as often in our community as he's been over the last 30-some years.

I hope the parties concerned will put in the effort. For this time, the presence of all the chief delegates of the six-party talks in Tokyo signifies that all parties are willing to put in an effort for this cause.

I was 25 when I was made director of marketing at 'Newsweek.' I was 29 when I was made chief executive officer of Kaplan Educational Centers. I was raised to be confident.

Nothing official was ever requested. He offered to share what he'd done to comply with the consent decree, but it's a matter of public record what was done, and Chief Costa is more than qualified to continue those programs.

Not one of my deputy chiefs left, ... We had 150 officers trapped in eight feet of water. It wasn't 150 desertions. We were fighting odds that you could not imagine. We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We were fighting in waist-deep water.

Everyone knows who won the race, but why did it play out the way it did? The team, drivers and crew chiefs have become the most eager consumers of this data.

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

I want to make clear that the chief and I share the strong conviction that our police officers must set an example for the entire community, ... The hypocrisy of ?Do as I say, not as I do' is not acceptable.

It tremendously raises the stakes. Now he'll be in a position (as chief justice) to influence the direction of the court for the next 30 years.

They were telling us lives were in danger, could we please hold off and it was a plea from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not something that happens every day.

Barack Obama

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Jim Jordan

The good news is he's not talking about his indicted chief of staff or ordering the leaking of classified information.

John Cornyn

We should recess to pay respects to the chief justice and his family, ... But we should continue on with the confirmation hearings to make sure that there aren't eight justices on the court when the new session begins.

The position of a chief information security officer (CISO) exists at many large firms, but it has not been a 'C-level' position. The CISO will have to be a position right up there with the CEO, CFO and CIO.

Arlen Specter

There have already been indications from members of the court about their liking the fact that Judge Roberts is going to be the new chief justice.

When you have strong growth and low wages, the chief beneficiary is corporate America.

There can be no turning back, and for that reason I oppose the nomination of Judge Roberts as chief justice.

Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.

William Hazlitt

We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .

Why did Chief Guerra and Ojeda take over six months to fill a vacant position? This is poor management, and a waste of taxpayer resources and should be unacceptable.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Fetty Wap

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

We were seeing a number of crashes, and our chief wanted to take a pro-active approach.

Evo Morales

We were right when we denounced the episode and when we tried to impeach the Commander in Chief (President Eduardo Rodriguez). The facts prove now that we were right.

Karin Slaughter

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

To have a Supreme Court open just four weeks from now, the first Monday in October, with only seven people and no chief justice would be unprecedented, and I don't see that happening.

Mahesh Bhupathi

You have to work on your weaknesses, but you have to work on your strengths even more. After all, returning well is one of my chief responsibilities on a court.