Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olli Rehn

The accession process is a tool for enhancing security and stability in that region which has suffered so many wars and ethnic conflicts in the last decade,

Michael Arrington

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

We have this constant recurring conflict between privacy and public records. Newspapers generally are on one side and privacy advocates are on the other.

Mark McKinnon

It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.

will only fuel wider regional instability ... and escalate the conflict with NATO.

Andrew Mitchell

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Warren Christopher

It is essential that the role of journalists and the media is respected as independent from the conflict.

We don't see it as a conflict of interest because of that.

Unfortunately the nature of this conflict is that we're going to have to stay there longer than we would like.

Unfortunately, the escalation of the conflict will continue.

Tony Blair

On the question of Iraq, I think the differences at the time of the conflict were well known,

Jacques Chirac will probably discuss the Iranian nuclear stand- off as well as the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He must also speak up to promote democracy in the Middle East.

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

I think it's an obvious conflict, not potential.

Robert Zoellick

Helping to end violence, ease suffering and forge a lasting political solution for Sudan's conflicts remain high priorities for the United States, ... The situation remains tenuous.

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Charles Kennedy

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

Kofi Annan

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

He was a bear. It was like he needed that conflict in the morning.

Jill Soloway

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

He was up here to find someone he had a conflict with in the past.

He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council.

Frankly, in New Jersey if you were to exclude everybody that had any kind of potential conflict you would be excluding a lot of people,

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

The potential for conflict of interest is greater today than it's ever been.

Until we get some sort of clear-cut message about where we're going in terms of the conflict with Iraq, the economic slowdown and corporate profits, fiscal policy, and everything else, we're going to keep seeing this kind of action.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest.

Javier Solana

The reforms of a Palestinian state is fundamental, ... There will not be global peace in the region unless the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is solved.