Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Alexander Hamilton

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Tim Ryan

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Wrongdoers may have their foreign trade operation rights annulled for as long as three years.

touches on huge and important issues of foreign policy.

Dave Reichert

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

We don't have a lot of foreign kids, but the ones we do have are pretty good.

Three people had indicated there was some foreign substance in their soda that they couldn't identify. Sarah Bowes was one of them, one of the people that complained about having medication in her soda.

People are not sheltered any more and people don't see it as foreign any more.

John Linder

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

Stephen Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong

Stephen Kinzer

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Koizumi's victory means Japan will now, more than ever, take orders from the United States in its foreign policy -- including keeping troops on in Iraq.

I think what he did was a revolution in terms of Russia's foreign policy,

Like most American or foreign players, he understands about half of what I say.

I will be working with Senator Menendez to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments.

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used, he seized upon September 11 as an opportunity to leapfrog in his foreign policy, the outlines of which by that time had been complete.

I wouldn't recommend the Foreign Legion for a thinking person, ... because it's going to wear you down.

Lisa Cholodenko

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

If it's a global or regional meltdown, India is not going to be spared, whereas in the past the outstanding level was really small, so foreigners weren't influencing the markets that much.

John Prescott

He was a principled foreign secretary, he was reforming leader of the house and even when he resigned regretfully from the government he did on principle he did it with style and elegance,

We had information about the presence of foreign militants. It was a sting operation and the target was knocked out.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.