Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Kenneth Branagh

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

Steve Nathan

She hasn't felt like talking, but she feels the need to explain. She's upset because there's a lot of bogus information being circulated.

Aaron Peirsol

No one told me anything. I don't know what I did. I have to figure it out. It sounds pretty bogus to me.

Adam McKay

You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

Mark Pryor

There is nothing free or fabulous about these bogus offers, ... These 'discount vacation packages' often cost consumers more than airfare, hotel and fees would cost them separately.

Preneet Kaur

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

Susan Grant

We hear a lot of complaints from consumers about bogus offers for credit cards that are promoted over the Internet,

Jason Schultz

Our nation's education system already faces severe budget constraints and a shortage of resources. We shouldn't be diverting resources away from teaching to pay off bogus patent threats.

George Hickenlooper

Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

Ed Black

The reality is that we have a history with Gore and have worked with him on many issues. There are people in the Bush camp who don't seem to grasp tech issues, and they have sent out some signals I'm not comfortable with. Gore really understands the essence of the industry, and I think his appointees to key places would reflect that understanding.

Bill Whalen

The reality is that the knee-jerk reaction by the governor's opponents to take him down is to call (Schwarzenegger) a Bush Republican,

Michael Genovese

The Reagan legacy is very vulnerable because George W. Bush has embraced it so wholeheartedly. Bush is the model, not the father, of the legacy. So much of the Reagan legacy is dependent on the Bush legacy.

Conrad Black

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Raza Rabbani

The people of Pakistan are rather disappointed. They have seen the U.S. pay a great deal of lip service supporting democracy in Muslim countries, but when we look at what is happening in Pakistan, President Bush says he shares the president's views and his democratic vision for Pakistan. For a great many, that is flawed.

Thad Cochran

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Ted Cruz

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

Elliott Abrams

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Marty Heires

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

Ed Wade

We want our fans to be excited. We're giving them a lot of reason to be excited. But we clearly understand that you play the game on the field. That's what it's all about.

Robert Gelbard

The expectations clearly will be that there will be much more room for maneuver on the part not just of the coca farmers, but on the part of trafficking organizations.

Donald Rumsfeld

The F-8 pilot clearly put at risk the lives of 24 Americans, ... It was clear the pilot's intent was to harass the crew.

Leonardo da Vinci

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Jonathan Turley

The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear. At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Leslie Cockburn

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Kate Reardon

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

Esperanza Spalding

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Jan Bowman

Many of our youngsters will never know this musical heritage unless they're exposed to it here.

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky

Richard J. Roberts

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

William Wordsworth

More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,/ As tempted more; more able to endure,/ As more exposed to suffering and distress.

Terry Hayes

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

Ed Smith

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

Erik Estrada

Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

John Hancock

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Gai Waterhouse

She won't be nominated for the George Main,

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

Billy Gardner

We've seen it before and we didn't want to quit on an inning. It gives us momentum but the momentum is only as good as your starter taking the mound.

Scott Walton

The process also gives us an opportunity to get demographics and meet the people that we are serving.

Abby Wambach

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

Laurie Geigel

The production gives you a real life simulation. You've got to trust each other and get it done. It's not a typical 'work hard, study and get a grade' class.

Travis Bradberry

Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Mohammed Aldouri

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Oskar Lafontaine

We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq war.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Maya MacGuineas

There is a window where nobody will be willing to say 'no' to anything as long as it has a Katrina label on it.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Ron Hays

We're sending stuff to Katrina through America's Second Harvest. We're supporting the network.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

Tim Hamilton

We would be at where we are today if Katrina had never happened.

Chris Enders

When Katrina struck we sat down and we talked about the timing of airing it.

Bruce Kasman

While recent hurricanes have not had lasting macroeconomic impacts, Katrina may prove to be the exception.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Dirk Benedict

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

Khaled Mashaal

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

Adam Savage

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Gabrielle Giffords

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

David Richards

We're trying to make it safer all the time but motorsport is dangerous.

Jose Diaz

We thought it would be safer for him being that it was in the 44, ... We thought it would be safer.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

Adrienne Shelly

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Robin Roberts

I think that number's high, ... I think the schools are safer than that shows.

Jane MacDonald

Whether it's instinctive or whether or not it was just the way the wind was blowing, it seems that they somehow feel safer here.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Alexia Fast

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

Amanda Hocking

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.