Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Manning

We were hoping we were going to get bonus points there, ... Jacob went out there and got the job done.

Beth Murrin

She had good bonus highs, which are important. She dances and she plays it up to the crowd.

Todd Pletcher

Six furlongs is a better distance for him, and he's a New York-bred - he runs for bonus money.

Kendra Todd

She's just a classy, brilliant woman. Working with her was certainly a bonus and a pleasant surprise -- I learned a lot,

Brandy Norwood

The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

Rick Hendrick

Ricky and I talked about it and designed a shop and put our offices in there. We got Brian Whitesell, who was the architect, really, of the 24 and 48 coming together and made him team manager. When we put the two teams together 5 and 25, we promised him a bonus when they won their first race.

John Riley

People would stick around to the end of the year to get the bonus then quit after Christmas,

Michael Trevino

Cash bonus and compensation overall is down and is a reflection of earnings of the previous year. These types of compensations are tied to company performance.

Tony Chukwueke

Because ONGC wanted more equity, which the Koreans wanted to consider, our signature bonus was delayed.

Carol Kane

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol P. Christ

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

C. S. Lewis

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Agnes Smedley

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

Alan Thicke

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

Alan Shearer

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

Alan King

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.