Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stemberger

We've seen in every state with a marriage amendment like this on the ballot that the people get it and understand the threat and it motivates them to come out and vote.

Roger Hickey

The people of Houston know he has something to hide. We hope their TV stations don't betray their First Amendment rights and obligations by capitulating.

Sitaram Yechury

The process was put in place only after a Constitutional amendment that we all supported. It had to begin after a law came in force. There should be no issues about it.

Ritchie McKay

Very emphatically, I never, ever in my 18 years of coaching have forced a young man or demanded or made it mandatory for a young man to attend church, ... I appreciate the ACLU, but to not listen to my bosses and to file a complaint, maybe its mission is to be controversial. Obviously I know the difference between making it mandatory and personal convictions and what the First Amendment says.

Eric Swalwell

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

Eric Holder

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

John Dingell

We want to see to it that we still have medical decisions being made in favor of and on behalf of the patients, ... This is to see to it that the HMOs are treated the same as anybody else, not given preferential and reverential treatment. That's what the Norwood amendment does.

John Carlson

We are seeing a perfect example of how campaign finance laws are regulating the First Amendment out of existence. The idea that I cannot talk about Initiative 912 in the last two and a half weeks of the campaign, which are the most pivotal, is just outrageous.

Ann Beeson

There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.

Kent Carper

There is a likelihood that will happen. I would say that it's better -- most likely than not that it will be on the May ballot, But it won't be on the ballot where you vote for the house of delegates or whatever, it'll be a separate piece of paper.

Larry Klayman

Ultimately, we may want to see all the ballots because we want to count them,

Elliott Abrams

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Craig Keeney

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Steve Richardson

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

Frances Johnson

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

Dana Doiron

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

Brian Rust

We're not actually sure how many ballots were affected.

David Dill

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Mike May

We have a real opportunity in Colorado to take a great step in Colorado. You should not have to have your health be damaged in order to have a job in the state of Colorado.

Jim Cole

When I look at the mountains here in Colorado they're so beautiful. You have potential habitat everywhere, but there aren't any bears. It's not grizzly country any more. The last grizzly in Colorado was killed by a bow-hunter in 1979.

Beth Miller

There is no question that county and state dollars will have to be used. It's just hard to imagine that the state of Colorado can come up with $30 (million) or $40 million.

Jim Harrison

What we're looking at right now is three teams that are unbeatable by any Southern Colorado team - Regis, Mullen and Broomfield. What we did (Tuesday) is we put ourselves in one of their brackets.

Eric Platt

With Wyoming and Colorado so close, I'd love to play for my home state rather than going to CSU.

S. Walker

Since it opened, I've seen a lot more walk-in traffic. Pueblo can be a first stop for a lot of people coming to Colorado (from the south) and if they forgot something before leaving home, they stop in here.

Joe Glenn

(Seven) is still quite a few, and maybe that's about average. We didn't get everyone we went after, I'll tell you that. We recruited a lot of Colorado kids. Unfortunately, some went to Colorado. Unfortunately, some went to Colorado State. We recruited just as many (as usual), but unfortunately, more stayed in their home state than they have in a long, long time.

Christopher Davis

We're ready to give Colorado a real run for their money.

Bob Whitley

Because of the year-round opportunities there for leisure, Colorado is very popular.

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

John Davies

We're just trying to help these offices. All we're interested in is trying to help these offices with their needs. The committee can only make recommendations. But you're either gonna have to buy, lease or build.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Lucille Roybal-Allard

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.

Keith Allen

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

Jim Nussle

We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable.

Ahmed Qureia

This problem is finished for now, but there will be a committee and a procedure for dealing with this kind of matter.

Barton Smith

The professional, the high-skilled person is going to find it easiest to be able to find work in Houston.

Ned Vizzini

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

John Gillespie

We're going to get it. They are going to take the easiest route.

Ben Smith

She has not had the easiest time staying on the straight and narrow. When you have a lot of talent, you might take things for granted.

Lamorne Morris

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

Kumail Nanjiani

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Jenny Mack

Making sure tires are properly inflated is one of the easiest and most important maintenance procedures for drivers. Not only does it promote safety but also will save money at the gas pump.

Will Rogers

Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold

Mary Moreland

Getting the people out and relocated may be the easiest way, (but) the victims are not ready to leave.

John Lilly

We were an extremely young football team last year and played some freshmen, and we were hoping that would pay off. But we elected to just not talk a whole lot about last year.

Ross Anderson

The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,

Ted Cruz

If I am elected president, keep an eye on the tarmac, because I'll be back, because Iowa in 2017 will not be fly-over country. It will be fly-to country.

Ed Koch

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

John McCarthy

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Mike Quigley

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Sean Callahan

We have to get up for every team we play. Our focus now is to win a state championship. Yeah, we want to get back at Hillsborough, but we see the big picture and that is to win games,

John Torchetti

We have to get our focus on the playoffs. Whatever it takes. The commitment, the attitude, the leadership.

Jan Vandemoortele

We have to focus now on the next big problem which will be heating.

Matt Millen

We have to focus back with our football team,

Kevin Garnett

We have no choice. We're in a position where we have to stop looking down the road and start to focus on one game at a time and getting better.

Bob Willis

We want our students to be able to focus on their futures when they graduate without being saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt.

Doug Snyder

We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful.

Lance Traywick

We have a young team that is very inexperienced and at times when we don't throw strikes, their focus can wane from time to time.

Etsuko Yamashita

The CPI proved not so helpful for the yen's rises. The market is now shifting its focus to the policy meeting.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Paul Johnston

If we start seeing a lot of egg-laying, we'll initiate the pulse whether or not we have the right temperature.

David Ireland

I welcome any kind of investigation (but) I didn't initiate it,

Geoff Peters

You've got to stay level-headed and let everything develop. But at the same time you've kind of got to go after it. You've got to be the ones to initiate it.

Gary Sheffield

What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Eckhart Tolle

Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Evelyn Keyes

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Dave Brat

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

Andrea Hirata

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Allen Zaremberg

We're trying to work together to resolve policy issues.

Louis Pitschmann

To say there is no policy is incorrect.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Tie Domi

The process has to be conducted a little more properly.

George Fernandes

The process has begun. This will take about one-and-a-half months. We are trying to do it faster.

Ajay Prasad

The process will go on unless we are told otherwise.

Matthew Paull

The process of restructuring and seeking qualification would be long and arduous,

Ethan Diamond

The process of going through the inbox is much, much faster.

Tom Mitchell

The process is working the way it is supposed to work,

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Blake Lively

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Tom Rathbun

We welcome any independent review of what we do.

Jeff Moss

Today (Tuesday) will be security review day for a lot of places,

Tim Wagner

We have not had time to review it and have no comment.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Charlotte Bronte

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Azim Premji

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Brandon Cox

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

David Allen

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

David Cross

Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.