Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Corallo

Our position that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over non-U.S. citizens being held in military control abroad is based on long-standing Supreme Court precedent,

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

Valerie Whittlesey

It has been intentional and systematic in its initiatives in international education. The implementation of the QEP will be the effort of the entire campus. Every unit on-campus will be consulted in the development and implementation of the QEP. In order to impact student learning in the area of global understanding and engagement, those responsible for curricular experiences, co-curricular experiences, community engagement, study abroad experiences and all other administrative functions together with students will make the dream of the QEP a reality.

David Rubin

It is no secret that the image of the United States abroad is not as positive as it must be. To the degree we can help to repair that image by introducing these visitors to American views of democracy, a free press and the role of citizens, we will have provided a valuable service to our country.

Paul Steiger

I strongly suspect that there is a relationship between the rise in deaths and incarcerations abroad and the infringement of press freedom at home.

Gong Li

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Queen Mary

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

Harold Wilson

From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

Alan Kopit

Regularly using liquid savings to cover normal expenses may indicate you are not planning properly. If you find yourself doing that, you should reassess your overall budget strategy.

Paul Gaffney

Our obligation is for the right budget for our schools.

Willy Koppel

Our materials budget for the current year is $19,500, which is the lowest it's been in many years. The proposed budget that you have presented to us is $10,000 for the year.

Dennis Taylor

Our No. 1 goal is to restore budget cuts, and No. 2 is financial aid.

Richard Stein

Our mission is to create the right condition for learning with affordability and quality. Hopefully residents will see that. This budget is not going to be an easy task.

Adriane Berg

People immediately think budgeting means getting rid of the things they love the most.

Gary Ambrose

People have to minimize the use of home equity for short term financial needs. Get your budget in order. Home equity lines of credit are for long-term financial needs. They were not meant to buy cars and trips and fuel overspending.

Jeff Denham

State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget deficits over the last several years. The timing for a legislative pay increase isn't right.

Robert DiClemente

State and local budgets can be corrected by small changes in the relative growth rates of spending and tax revenues, rather than by jarring policy initiatives.

Karl Rove

remains a focus of the CIA leak probe. He has told friends it is possible he still will be indicted for providing false statements to the grand jury.

John McCain

I am concerned -- and I think most people are concerned -- about the lack of coordination between agencies, ... The failure to work together to share information -- they're doing that now, in fact. As we know, the CIA director and the FBI director are briefing the president every morning, so there were obviously breakdowns -- particularly in coordinating and sharing information.

Robert Horan

He just wanted (to punish) the CIA and was willing to shoot whoever happened to be there,

Bob Woodward

I was first contacted by Fitzgerald's office on November 3 after one of these (three) officials went to Fitzgerald to discuss an interview with me in mid-June 2003 during which the person told me Wilson's wife worked for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction as a WMD analyst,

Thomas Egan

He is not a Navy SEAL and he's not a CIA operative.

Michael Hayden

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Ingrid Seward

Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.

Ronald Kessler

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

Ronald Kessler

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Wayne Peters

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

Lumkile Mondi

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

Jack Collins

Our president has been in touch with state police and the Executive Office of Public Safety. They will leave sooner than later, I suspect.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Bill Cosby

I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the networks from now on are going to be entertaining 13-year-old people, and that's what you see today.

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Joe Farmer

Our staff has been trained extensively on how to teach students with multiple levels of intelligence in the same class.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Mike McCurdy

(Our) listeners are known for their love of lifelong learning." ()

Mike Blakely

Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,

Santiago Lyon

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive.

Lee Peterson

Our son is innocent. We know that. We've known it from day one.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Tom Andrews

Manny was also known as 'right now.' When he wanted something done, it had to be done right now.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Richard Matvichuk

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

Irish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Greg Lynn

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.

Bill Cosby

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Bill Cosby

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Andrew Scott

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Debi Mazar

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

David Foster Wallace

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Amos Oz

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.