Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Webb

Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.

Maajid Nawaz

My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

John Niven

Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.

Richard Jones

Maybe they wanted someone who could provide the Arab perspective, too .

Bible Bible

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; / Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Tawakkol Karman

I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

Tina Brown

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

Nicholas Kristof

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

Paul Kane

Figures are very sketchy at present, but roughly we expect around 8000 to 10,000 applications a month through the 78 post offices of Emirates Post located throughout the country.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Henry Chan

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

Fawaz Gerges

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

Ignacio Bunye

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Marc Cherry

Let's just say she has a very interesting relationship with her son.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relationship with that woman!

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Neil Callaway

We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.