Famous Quotes & Sayings

It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

Charles Schumer

judicial philosophy and his commitment to civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights.

Maybe in February, you might talk about it for a while. There's slavery and the Civil War, then nothing for (100 years). Then there's Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, and that's it like they were the only two who ever did anything. It gets glossed over.

Michael Chertoff

managers and supervisors found responsible for violating civil rights or whistleblower protection laws will be disciplined accordingly.

Rupert Murdoch

We have a very civil relationship, but I just gotta watch him so that, in the interests of all shareholders, you can't have someone creep up and get control of the company without paying a premium.

Alice Walker

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

The President decided that he was no longer running the country as a civilian President. He issued a military order giving himself the power to run the country as a general.

Jeremy Corbyn

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

Rebecca MacKinnon

While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

John Negroponte

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

Title 42 U.S. Code, Section 1988 was intended to help the poor obtain legal counsel in claims of real, tangible violations of civil rights. To leverage defendants into submission and enrich themselves at the same time, organizations like the ACLU have exploited it.

E. F. Schumacher

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

We are seeing heated demand for long products generated by the civil construction sector. This year should be the fourth-consecutive year we will see record consumption.

We're not weak. But I don't want to be dragged into a civil war.

John Galbraith

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

Jacques Chirac

To better help the youth, notably the youth in difficulty, to move toward employment, I've decided to create a voluntary civil service,

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

Jimmy Carter

Nigeria is the most influential country on the continent, and under a civilian leader who is freely elected by the people and trusted by the international community, I think Nigeria will be even more influential,

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civil Rights violations and got a few years. The others were acquitted.

Susan Estrich

I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

Eric Holder

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

I have invited political, religious and civil leaders to discuss confidence-building measures to ensure the situation remains under control.

I have interviewed the refugees and civilians from these villages who testified to this.

I don't remember such a long period of peace between India and Pakistan, or a time when the civil societies were so active.

I don't want a civil union, I want a marriage.

Samuel Johnson

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

To date, China's criminal, civil and administrative procedure laws have combined to form a relatively comprehensive system.