Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Zarifi

Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.

Aman Mojadidi

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Jason Kamiya

One of the main vulnerabilities of the Afghan Army is their logistics system,

Emma Bonino

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Sam Zarifi

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Sergei Lavrov

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Jacques Chirac

Like all the countries of Europe, France is keenly aware that the Atlantic alliance remains, in the face of new threats, a fundamental element of our collective security.

Javier Solana

Madrid will be remembered as the time when North America and Europe came together to shape the course of a new century, ... United by common purpose and shared values, the new alliance stands ready to shape a brighter, more secure future.

Tom Coburn

one of those once-in-a-decade moments where we can forge a left-right alliance on a policy issue.

Sydney White

One of the things I recommend is to call the Alliance Police Department. Every single officer cares about animals and wants to try and do what they can for them. Alliance is really a progressive community when it comes to animal cruelty and abuse.

Matthew Eastwood

IDC's research revealed positive attitudes in the marketplace regarding the Itanium platform, specifically around awareness, purchase intent and current customer satisfaction among IDC's Enterprise Server Customer Panel. Strong perception and awareness is a testament to the brand that Intel and HP have established. This foundation provides a solid basis for the Itanium Solutions Alliance to build broader understanding among IT buyers and encourage new customers and new partners to join the ecosystem.

Madeline Albright

I am confident today that the costs of a larger alliance will be real but affordable, and that NATO will emerge from this process with its military capabilities as strong as ever,

Greg Raleigh

The only event that consumers can count on to guarantee compatibility is W-Fi Alliance certification.

Lou Dobbs

This strategic alliance is a further value offering for the millions of users who rely on the Web for high-end data and unsurpassed financial news.

Marianne Williamson

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

Robert Kazinsky

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Rohit Shetty

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Toba Beta

Let us think for a moment about alien, regarding possibility of the existence of other civilization beyond our dear planet earth. We probably conclude that it's all just hoax, or some rumors issued by ruling government for some purpose. Now, we can contemplate a bit about it by asking this simple rhetorical question, 'How could possibly people be able to think about something unknown, which have never been popped out in human minds at all?'

Pat Burke

(Legislators) are reinventing the wheel, making it square and asking us to do it for them.

Walter Isaacson

Louisiana lost its credibility by asking for everything. Now it is our job to say, we have some reasonable priorities for spending and we are going to be sensible and frugal about it.

Cindy Walker

Lots of people have been calling asking about converting their oil-heated homes to propane-heated homes,

Barry Alvarez

Many times they were trying to run with a linebacker on him, which is very difficult, if you're asking a linebacker to play run support and also play the tight end.

Michael Casserly

Many boards are asking superintendents to be messiahs.

Derek Loomis

We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.

Bill Walker

We're not concerned with numbers. (The way the word gets out) is that I tell you, (and) you tell someone else.

Salvation Army

We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.

Bertrand Russel

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Masaki Iso

Low rates have supported equities globally, so investors are concerned interest rates will rise further.

Rick Baughman

Last year we were all really concerned about his health. He always wanted to know if he could do anything. But then he bounced back and was there for the kids this year.

George W. Bush

Leaders who are concerned about the harmful effects of high tariffs and farm subsidies must move the Doha Round forward,

Steve Ray

Many people are concerned about not only the shortage of people who can run for public office, but also the shortage of people to serve on nonprofit boards.

Asahi Shimbun

Many people in Japan were concerned whether American meat processors can properly take out risky materials. The concern was proved right so soon. Many consumers are feeling cheated.

George Crumb

Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.

Maribeth Lartz

We have sign language practices and sign language groups before each of our meetings.

Ahmet Ertegun

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

C. Everett Koop

That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

Dave Ramsey

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tim Danson

If we had our druthers, it wouldn't even be news - it would have been issued and no one would know about it until sometime down the road. But that didn't work out for us.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Suliman Baldo

Without a comprehensive government-donor strategy, the northern Uganda problem will never be definitively solved.

James Nesbitt

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'