Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Kate Nauta

Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.

Heather Wilson

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

Norm Dicks

Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.

Dore Gold

Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel.

John Thompson

Motorola designed this integrated suite of emergency dispatch applications in a highly configurable format, giving each public safety agency the flexibility to configure business rules and display options to meet their individual needs.

Jack Miller

One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

Guy Tauer

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

Andrew Bennett

One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Robin Munro

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Steve Largent

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Anne Mulcahy

Maggie is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of bringing innovative, technology-based solutions to market. Her experience and strong leadership skills will serve Xerox and its shareholders well and complement the outstanding talent serving on our board.

Ali Noorani

Let's leave our flags at home. Let's make sure we're bringing the American flags.

Edward Davis

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Chuck Robbins

Many of the technologies we're bringing out lend themselves to managed offerings. They are, by definition, complex, and customers are looking for expertise from our partners.

Lorraine Pino

Many of the new businesses that are coming downtown are bringing a new energy.

Tatsuo Kageyama

Sentiment for gold is improving but the outlook largely depends on the fate of crude oil prices.

Jason Schenker

mitigated some of the upward pressure on crude oil prices.

Victor Shum

Natural gas pricing is an immediate telltale sign of the winter situation: it is fairly mild, and this is likely to impact heating oil and crude demand as well.

Ben Bernanke

Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

Bryant Gimlin

Given the crude price hikes, pump prices should top $3 a gallon in the next week or so.

Jason Schenker

Given OPEC's decision to keep quotas unchanged, Iranian guarantees of oil supply and U.S. statements excluding the possibility of oil sanctions, crude is poised to fall next week.

Aaron Kildow

From a purely fundamental basis, the market shouldn't be within $20 of the crude price that we're seeing. But people are reluctant to sell.

Rolayne Fairclough

Fuel prices have become particularly unstable in the past few weeks. Worries about the security of crude oil supplies are pushing prices up while growing domestic inventories of domestic crude oil and refined products are pushing prices down.

Dominic West

I'm a rather crude cook.

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 Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Jochen Zeitz

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

Bruce Reznik

Lorena really is the environmental candidate. She's somebody I've worked with on environmental issues for the past six years, on state and local issues, and she has proven her leadership.

Jerry Ray

Many of the Florida environmental groups have come to see us, and they wanted this approach.

Beth Zimmerman

Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them to improve the shopping experience and sales potential for all consumers, regardless of gender.

Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Dennis Weaver

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Denis Hayes

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

Pam Compton

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Tisha Tallman

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Lisa Jennings

McCoy went back before the Senate in Washington, D.C., and testified in front of the Senate subcommittee and pushed for a federal anti-freeze law.

Joe Jamail

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Dorothy Stukes

My fellow Katrina survivors and I have experienced more tragedy in the last six months than most people have in a lifetime. We have lost relatives, friends and our community. The federal government should live up to its responsibility to rebuild.

Mike Johanns

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Robert Hartwig

New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater.

Carter Canada

We've never been included in one minute of planning, even though it's required by federal law.

Curt Miller

We want to make sure the revenue we receive from that route matches the 50 percent we receive from the federal government.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

Larry Wachtel

Low-end consumers, the ones that spend every penny of their paycheck, are really hurting with these gasoline prices.

Maryann Keller

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

Jose Vicente

If we can sell gasoline to China, India and Latin America, as we have been doing, we will not have a problem.

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Bill Richardson

The projections that the futures market is making are that you're going to see gradual decreases in gasoline prices,

Michael McNamara

The overall number did perk up at the end of the month. Higher gasoline prices did help a bit.

Gregg Laskoski

We know that they (motorists) are getting tired of hearing the rationalizations for the way gasoline prices are going higher.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Fernando Martin

On June 30 I will have 99 percent of the staff (for next season) settled - and the coach, in two weeks.

Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Earl Graves

Since June of 2004, we've funded 73 charities.

Wendy Roberts

I didn't pay $50 a ticket, wait till the tickets come out on June 4 to have hundreds of people push me over and knock me down on the ground,

Alexander Skarsgard

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

Denise Levertov

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

Richard Archer

We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Diane Duane

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Thom McDaniels

We had three different protection schemes because they give you three different fronts,

Matt Nagle

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Jeremy Root

If they had pulled those out, we would have won.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Rick Noble

I don't know what we said, but it was kind of like a high-five, we really pulled this off. It was better than we thought it was going to be. Even now when I talk about it I get chills.

Eddy Curry

Y'all pulled out the old stuff, ... This is the vintage stuff. Throwback. This is crazy, man, crazy.

Douglas Rice

We were all just sort of pulled out of the cabins.

Mike Hargrove

We won't know until tomorrow. If I were to guess, he pulled a hamstring.

Kathy Mattea

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Gary Waters

He should have pulled up. He was trying to get fouled, I know that's what he was thinking.

Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams. To me, that was the only thing that was on today. We didn't play well enough offensively or defensively.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams.

Ai-jen Poo

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

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.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.