Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Chuck Hall

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Andrew Fulghum

Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it.

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Robert Barnett

I will do everything in my personal power to see this county does not lose funding, and that our housing authority becomes more stable. I expect to be clear about what we need to do to clean up the matter as far as what HUD wants to see.

Javier Solana

Regarding relations with the European Union, all the declarations of the election campaign have been positive.

Verna Rutherford

Participating with the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, we did a 'shop local' campaign in the month of December and spent quite a lot of money in an electronic media campaign.

Carol Rice

Participants can look a Texas map and see how far they could have gone if they had been walking in a straight line. One of the goals of the campaign is to help people develop good fitness habits whether it gets them moving indoors or outdoors.

Stephen Hess

Suddenly the campaign is over, they wake up and the press is not seeking their opinion. There's no more entourage, no Secret Service. It's very, very difficult.

Jeffrey Toobin

Starting Monday, we're going to see this campaign at a new level of negativity and hostility and combat that will make the summer look like a student council election.

John Glenn

some good advice, maybe even out of this committee, come up with a good campaign reform law.

Paul Kirk

Our role is not to jump-start a campaign and all of the sudden make a candidate competitive.

Maggie Jones

Our goal is to embark on a capital campaign this year because we have outgrown our facility and our facility is very antiquated.

Jared Hernandez

Our goal is to reach out to every Gator on this campus. This campaign is about marking the end of politics as usual.

Nicola Sturgeon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

James Lee

Our legal staff and election staff will review the letter.

Laisenia Qarase

Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,

Barney Frank

People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.

Al Gore

We now need to resolve this election in a way that is fair and forthright.

Charley Pride

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I think these two teams will go their own way. ... Viktor Yushchenko and I will go to the elections on parallel paths,

Robin Marshall

I think there will be a relief rally when the election situation finally sorts itself out.

Rick Davis

I think straw polls would be left for the year of the election and for people who need to emerge. John McCain emerged a long time ago.

Martin Winterkorn

Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.

Tim Frank

Our policy . . . does not require a player to take a drug test at any point during a game, and we will ensure going forward that no testing is conducted during this time.

David Emerson

Part of what we're doing right now is to ensure that what we do doesn't make matters worse.

Ramalinga Raju

Our marketing expenses will go down too. We are taking a stand where we would be guided by what opportunities it brings, whether it preserves our margins or whether it ensures higher growth. There is a range of things that we can do to structure these deals.

Rob Conway

Our goal is to ensure that in future, every notebook will be SIM ready.

Dayle Stewart

Our crews are ensuring that their trucks are stocked with all the equipment that they might need. We're going to ensure that all the trucks have been fueled and are ready to go at a moment's notice.

Bob Goodlatte

Our trading partners need to understand that we will do everything possible to ensure the competitive position of American farmers and ranchers,

Jon Postel

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Zab Judah

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Ben Harper

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.

David Phillips

Some of the results will be sure to surprise you.

Lee Scott

Our results were not up to Wal-Mart standards,

Takashi Oya

Results were just as strong as we expected.

Mark Hurd

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Charles Kennedy

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Bill Cosby

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.