Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Paul Richard

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Larry Price

Great teachers like those we honor this evening got us here, and they will continue to lead the way, ... That only one can be chosen Teacher of the Year is a classic example of overcrowding. We have so many worthy candidates and only one spot to fill.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

Marc Faber

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Ali Naimi

make it more difficult to overcome these bottlenecks in the system.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Clinton Case

(Lewinsky) doesn't sound crazy. She sounds fragile, as if she is in an extremely difficult spot.

Tim Bates

Last year, we could hit the ball. That was our strength. We had inexperienced pitchers, but what is nice is that they're back. We left them in at difficult times last year so they could learn and they have improved because of it.

Don Cooper

Let's face it, it's very, very difficult to get our work in. The disappointing thing is that it looked like we were going to get our five innings in.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

Less than 250 seats and things could get difficult for Koizumi.

Maria Garcia

Learning English is the most difficult part, and I hope I can do it because I really want to become a citizen. I?m happy for my friends and I hope I can do it, too.

Bradley Skolnik

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Gerhard Schroeder

One can never tell how long one will have to remain in office as caretaker,

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Deng Xiaoping

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Eleanor Clift

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Reed Baker

If a person is really sick, you don't want them in the office because you don't want the whole staff to go down.

Ed Miliband

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Rodney Brooks

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

Larry Mize

But it will probably speed up play in a lot of these tournaments. A lot of positives can come out of it, so the positives probably outweigh the negatives.

Greg Krikorian

There are many other ways to keep in touch. In the end, the risks outweigh the positives.

Jamie Newberg

It's at the point where if you can square yourself away academically to do it, the pros outweigh the cons.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Dana Milbank

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Dean Rusk

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eduardo Galeano

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.