Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Goldstein

Regardless of what this document is, why is the E.P.A. ignoring its well-reasoned conclusions? And what does this say about the ability of the E.P.A. to compel G.E. to do anything?

Janet Rayfield

Regardless of results or performance, the ability to interact and impact the young student-athletes involved in the Chicago SCORES program was a great opportunity for all of our student-athletes. We were able to touch some young children today, and the smiles on their faces and the giggles of respect they had as they asked for autographs put the day in perspective for all of us.

Chris Kouns

Regan is a very tough and tenacious defender and should compete for playing time very quickly after her arrival on campus. She has good 1 v 1 defending ability and plays a very simple game, which does not often lead her to many mistakes. She is tough to beat, which can help us in the center of our defense and also has the versatility to play on the left side as a man marker.

Jamal Qureshi

Refiners are already going to be feeling a bit of a pinch in their ability to provide supply, and importers as well.

Merrill Lynch

Recent disruptions of crude oil production in Nigeria and tensions between the West and Iran over its nuclear program... have contributed to concerns about OPEC's ability to supply the market.

Jim Brown

Our research indicates that employing enhanced collaboration technologies in product development can have a significant impact on a company's ability to innovate and meet their product development targets. The real world stories presented at the ITS events offered excellent examples of how leading manufacturers are leveraging open design collaboration capabilities such as JT technology to streamline communication throughout their supply chains and bring innovative products to market faster.

Josh Bersin

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Tom Butts

Our panel of editors and columnists walked the show floor in search of innovative and ground-breaking new products. The products we selected made the cut-they demonstrated their ability to help advance the acquisition and dissemination of entertainment media in each category reviewed.

Jerry Calhoun

Our overall offer included several provisions to enhance job security. Still, we continue to believe that job security depends on our ability to improve quality and productivity.

Max Baucus

President Bush likes to say that trade is for everyone, and that we all share the benefits -- including workers .... This amendment presented the president with the perfect opportunity to show a real commitment to those priorities. But he let the opportunity pass him by.

Jack Shea

Our mission is both to ensure that the First Amendment rights of our members are not trampled upon by overzealous legislators and also to raise the consciousness level of the entertainment community with regard to the social responsibility of filmmakers,

Jonathan Zittrain

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

Ann Beeson

Our first amendment rights are irreparably harmed, every day the gag continues,

O. J. Simpson

I will not hide behind the Fifth Amendment

John Spencer

It is a shame that President Clinton is losing his First Amendment rights. We think this is a big mistake. How else would we have known that President Clinton was working behind the scenes to support the Dubai port deal while Sen. Clinton was trying to block it?

Rep. Lawrence

I think there were a few of us who voted on the amendment that were confused as to what it actually did and I am thankful for opportunity to rethink our actions.

Peter Simonson

just a clear and unqualified constitutional violation. So the university should probably know that regardless of what the outcome of their investigation regarding Muammar shows, they are still vulnerable to a serious First Amendment claim.

Mat Staver

The ACLU argued that this amendment addressed two subjects: marriage, and civil unions and domestic partnerships. They said people would be in favor of voting for marriage, but may not be in favor of banning civil unions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and said that this amendment is about the singular purpose of marriage and maintaining and preserving the protections and obligations of marriage.

Sen. Gallegos

Regardless of who you are, if you have this addiction, you've got to deal with it, or something's going to happen to you.

Michael Griffith

Recently, school districts have been getting more and more successful in winning these cases, and getting a great deal more money.

Frank Rijkaard

Real started with a great deal of spirit,

Walter Bugno

Our position is still that we're delighted with Dwight's contribution, delighted that he's on a two-year deal and want to see him back here next season. But internally and publicly we have been trying very hard to help Dwight find suitable arrangements until the World Cup.

Mamie Gummer

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

David Schultz

Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we can do it.

David Montgomery

Pat has accomplished a great deal in three situations.

Jason Smith

Paul (Horvath) has a strong opinion about taxes. Every year he pays his taxes right before the (county tax) sale. This is nothing new with us. This is how Paul deals with taxes. He paid his taxes at this time last year.

Drew Neitzel

Paul gets them all the time. I guess it's not that big a deal for him. But it's big for me.

Bruce Taylor

Janet Reno did not feel comfortable enforcing obscenity laws. She didn't want to do it, and nobody made her do it.

Erik Nicholson

We're pleased that the state is finally enforcing the terms of this agreement. It's been a long time coming. Global has violated a number of state laws, and we think this is an appropriate action.

Jeff Dorschner

She was patrolling the forest enforcing the no-fire ban. She got out of her government vehicle with the purpose or the intent of starting a fire.

Carolyn Beck

We are not stopping arrests. We are stopping these particular operations. We will still be in the licensed establishments enforcing the laws, including public intoxication and sale to intoxicated persons. Routine inspections will continue, as will responses to complaints.

Pat Toomey

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

Bob Harris

Our hands are tied as far as legislation is concerned. All we are doing is enforcing what we're supposed to enforce.

Ted Cruz

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

Rosanna Pulido

We want to show our support for the Waukegan police enforcing the law equally. The sign says it all. If you can't pay the fine, don't do the crime.

Orrin Hatch

I know you, and I am familiar with your 30-year record in enforcing and upholding the law,

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Ben Bernanke

Roger made invaluable contributions to the Federal Reserve and to the country.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

George H. W. Bush

I think the most important thing government can do is provide flexibility for federal monies.

David Scharf

I think today's announcement was not a major catalyst. Even though the headline reads very well, it probably had not been on the forefront of the minds of investors as a real issue.

Mike Crosthwaite

I don't think people realize the role that La Costa played in the history of the PGA Tour. It really was at the forefront of professional golf being a venue and what that offered.

Michael Fitzpatrick

While Iran seems to be going back and forth on the use of oil as a political weapon, that issue will probably remain in the forefront for the near term, at least.

Brian McBride

When one striker is scoring a lot and the others maybe not so much, there can be a tendency for the other guy to be at the forefront of people's attention,

Sherrod Brown

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Bruce Dressel

We've always been at the forefront of trying to deploy this kind of stuff.

Rob Enderle

We're right now at the forefront of another major change.

Mike Dowd

I want it to be at the forefront of my life for the rest of my life. This whole process has been one horrible thing and 100 great things. It's tragedy and triumph. Every day, people treat my wife the way God wanted us to all treat each other. How many of us get that opportunity?

Alan Greenspan

The United States has been in the forefront of the postwar opening up of international markets, much to our, and the rest of the world's, benefit, ... It would be a great tragedy were that process reversed.

Bill Cosby

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

Bill Cosby

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

C. S. Lewis

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Bill Burr

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bill Burr

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

Bill Hicks

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent...

Bill Hicks

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

Bertrand Russell

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Jenni Engebretsen

Just as parents are talking to their kids about smoking, or alcohol, or drug use, they're now talking to their kids about illegal downloading.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Keith Martin

Harper adheres to this notion that society should morally ( penalize ) people who use illegal drugs.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Kevin Furtado

Pinot noir is very site specific. You can recognize a Russian River style. The area's influences is why the taste is so unique.

Bill Crawford

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

Todd Oldham

I want to thank him for being such a kind influence to me personally. There's a lot to learn from someone who celebrates life in that bigness.

Dean Clark

I think there's a tremendous influence on the community.

Peter Fisher

I think that's their major source of influence.

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Gordon Drummond

James has been a tremendous influence at the club, not only with his performances on the field, but also with his coaching,

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

John Greenwood

I think there's no understanding whatsoever of what the safety issues are.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Christine Varney

Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Larry Mullen

I'm thinking he thought he was protecting them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Acie Law

That's the second time today someone's done that.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Greg Thompson

I think it's who comes in second place.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Bill Taylor

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Smith

Crystal Cruises has individually crafted each European cruise itinerary to provide a rich combination of destinations with more overnight stays and more time in ports. Whether taking a shorter seven-day jaunt or combining several unique cruises to create the ultimate European exploration, luxury travelers will enjoy the grandeur of Europe and the warmth and luxury of the Crystal experience.

Bill Condon

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Bill Cosby

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Big Sean

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

Bill Vaughan

No one can bring to God what you can.