Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Galvin

The problem with the Carter-Baker Commission is exactly the problem with the National Association of Secretaries of State, ... We're both bipartisan and there's nothing bipartisan about scheming for presidential primaries.

Ana Navarro

There is bipartisan support for immigration reform in South Florida, including Gov. Jeb Bush, including the legislature, including our mayor in Miami. We in South Florida don't have to turn people's minds around.

Kenneth Blackwell

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Erik Paulsen

Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.

John Conyers

Most of us are together, on a bipartisan basis, that a preliminary report would do no good, ... It probably would not do Starr any good either.

Ron Klein

Unfortunately, it's another example of mismanagement on the part of Citizens, ... I would hope that in a bipartisan way we can get to the bottom of what it takes to fix Citizens.

Ken Lucas

I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.

John Sweeney

Bush reversed his decision after a public outcry and bipartisan opposition to his worker pay cut in the House and Senate.

Wayne Angell

Bush has been more open to having more of a bipartisan board than I've seen before. I didn't even give a moment's thought that Clinton would reappoint me.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

Bryan Lee

The proceeding has been suspended. It's not at all unusual for the commission to suspend a proceeding with a prospect of a settlement.

Michael Twomey

The real issue: Is the Louisiana Public Service Commission going to make the company wait one or two years to recover these dollars.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Paul Tagliabue

We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,

Abdul Jalil

This proves that opposition's demand for reforms of the caretaker government system and the Election Commission is authentic.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Adam Quinton

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

Thelma Drake

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Kim Cattrall

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

George William Russell

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

Carlo Ancelotti

We didn't deserve this defeat. I think we have played at the same level as Barcelona. We've had good opportunities to score but we've missed them.

Charlie Sheen

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Dirk Nowitzki

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Atharva Veda

Let us not seek the outer empire; let us become the rulers of the inner empire. Let us not try to defy the outer enemy, leaving the inner foe to grow in striking power. We have Krishna with us, and so, who can defeat us? We shall win through winning His Grace.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Joshua Katcher

We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Phoebe Diftler

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

Richard G. Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Bret Harte

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Teemu Selanne

We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams.

Haim Ramon

We, as the homeland of the survivors of the Holocaust, will not tolerate that regime in Austria.

Ellen Tauscher

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

John Cook

We are disappointed ... the military value and homeland security value of Ellington wasn't realized by the commission.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Condoleezza Rice

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Thomas Murphy

The terrorists are still here. I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security.

Nawal El Saadawi

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

Tom Ridge

The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure.

Newt Gingrich

As a test of the homeland security system, this was a failure, ... woefully inadequate.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

Newt Gingrich

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

Noam Chomsky

It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

Mohsin Hamid

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Kellyanne Conway

The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.