Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joschka Fischer

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

John Tkacik

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

James Inhofe

I'd much prefer to have a lot of allies out there, both in the Middle East and in Western Europe, ... Late Edition.

Timothy Murphy

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

Dave Reichert

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Sarah Palin

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Jason Silva

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

John Cherne

McNeill is a junior and he's gotten a lot better. He has a great mid-range jumper. He makes or breaks them.

Andre Morgan

Obviously, we have to rebound a little better. It was just the little things, and they got a couple of breaks here and there.

Steve Spurrier

Obviously, we want to be in the top half every year, and maybe some year everything breaks right and we put together a team that can win it. That certainly is our goal for the future.

Mary Williams

My 4-year-old grandson (in Texas) keeps calling and saying he's sitting on the steps waiting for me to come pick him up. It breaks my heart.

Viktor Yushchenko

My heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests.

D. James

My hats off to Coach Tarver and the Howard coaching staff. They have done a great job. We had some breaks go our way. I am happy for our kids, they have worked hard and it paid off for them.

Kate Dudley

(NU) played excellent defense and got a lot of fast breaks out if it.

Darrell Butler

Whenever you play a program the quality that Belleville West is, you have to take those opportunities, make them count and score. You may not get another one. We were fortunate to have that inning where we got a lot of breaks our way.

Bill Burton

Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.

Gary Ruskin

Leadership by example has never been a forte of the United States Congress. We see more of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' This is just another example.

Dave Camp

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

Kevin Bishop

Sen. Graham recognizes the importance of having an ILS at the Aiken airport. He continues to work with state and local officials to ensure Congress and the FAA recognize this priority,

Tony Fratto

Secretary Snow will be personally engaged on working with Congress. He's been a strong voice on this for some time.

Nan Aron

No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.

Christine Gregoire

Only a national settlement passed by Congress will be able to give us the public health gains that we really need if we want to stop the problem significantly of underage smoking,

Winslow Wheeler

My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.

Michael Marsh

My guess is, it's going to face a tough go in Congress. It really isn't being received very well in the industry.

Alan Greenspan

Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief,

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Ian Shepherdson

If this is sustained we can be more hopeful the trade deficit will not rise further,

Doug Mirabelli

If we can't make up a half-game deficit over the last 10 games, it wasn't meant to be anyway.

Julie Rousseau

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Howard Archer

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Jim Pitts

I'm also working with the governor to stop illegal immigration and improve Medicaid. Working together we will find other sources.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

William O'Neill

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Frederic Bastiat

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

David Harvey

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Albert Lin

They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,

Emanuel Celler

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Steve Ballmer

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Lawrence Lessig

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Sam Altman

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.

Steve Elmendorf

No congressional party is ever going to speak with one voice. It?s not possible. And I?m not worried about that.

Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

Dennis Hastert

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Denis Kearney

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Deborah Tannen

The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

Eleanor Clift

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Eleanor Clift

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Edward Everett

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

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

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

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

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.

Don Moreland

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

Kathleen Sebelius

I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

Stephen Kinzer

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

Jim Talent

Governor Romney is a good debater.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Eliot Spitzer

Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Donald Trump

I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies.

George Twigg

We don't want to be a place where you have to be wealthy to live here.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

Charles Potter

This is a very big drive, and this is not a wealthy area,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Slash

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

Fred Lawrence

I can see where they wouldn't want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 ... I don't have that kind of money. I never was and never will be a wealthy person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Charles R. Swindoll

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,