Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions. The coalition believes it is confusing and unethical to restrict citizens to one vote on two opposing issues, which this amendment would have done.

Michael Chertoff

Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause violated their clearly established 4th Amendment rights,

Patrick Buchanan

Sen. Dole can avoid this fight if he simply stands up and says, 'Listen, I ran as a pro-life candidate. I'm committed to Ronald Reagan's plank in that platform. I do not want a battle on the convention floor. If there is a battle, I will stand with those who stand with the human life amendment and if necessary, I will speak on its behalf,

Susan Collins

Senator Graham's amendment complements Senator McCain's amendment. At the same time, his amendment prevents detainees who are not U.S. citizens from filing habeas corpus lawsuits in federal courts.

Timothy Karr

Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.

Sam Brownback

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Donna Mutzenard

More money will definitely help with the class size amendment to build schools, hire teachers and pay them a living wage to actually buy a home and live in our community.

David Buckel

New Jersey is a unique state nationally when it comes to this issue. That became very clear with a governor's race in which candidates on both sides opposed an amendment to the state constitution that would limit marriage to a man and a woman.

Jessi Klein

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Adnan Pachachi

Many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion, believes that there should be a determined effort to see whether in fact that elections are feasible,

James Gunn

Sean says he always had a feeling he should remain friends with Jenna and he never knew why. He believes it's because he knew we were meant to be together.

John Ullyot

Senator Warner believes that the decision of whether to keep Secretary Rumsfeld is up to the president.

Ron Bonjean

Sen. Lott believes this is an effort to open a dialogue on the serious issues of race, diversity and opportunity between Americans. This will be an ongoing effort.

Joan Hickson

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Jason Kello

Mr. Foley believes ... the trigger for the investigation should be whether a party to the transaction is a foreign government.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Fitzgerald has affirmed to me that he has made no charging decisions, that he believes Karl continues to cooperate fully with the investigation, but beyond that, I don't want to comment at all about any communications with Mr. Fitzgerald's office.

Chris Flood

Mr. Burwell wanted to go on with his life. He believes that the government now realizes the small part that he played in El Paso's reporting practices.

Rick Perlstein

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.

Phil Hardberger

Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.

Edward Kennedy

major breakthrough in our effort to give senior citizens the prescription drug coverage under Medicare they need and deserve.

Christopher Bond

Let's honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families by working hard to protect our citizens and our country.

Gene Luen Yang

Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

Teresa de Lauretis

Many Italians today refer to themselves as citizens of a Third World country, which they are in many ways, not simply economically.

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Wade Estep

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Wendy Kopp

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Richard Rogers

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

Roger Sherman

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Marc Morial

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Major Owens

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I think we'll see the coalition forces being able to pare down,

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Peter Pace

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Juergen Trittin

If we get the necessary majority, there will be coalition negotiations very soon.

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

David Smith

Sir, we as coalition forces ... have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We have long said we want this coalition and there are no reasons why it shouldn't happen.

Andrew Lansley

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

Kameron Loe

Last year was a little confusing because I wasn't sure if I would be a starter in Triple-A or a reliever in the big leagues. I think I'm more efficient this spring because I'm just starting. I've always been a starter up until last season.

Lorde

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

Ian Anderson

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

Nelson Wolff

The policy is confusing to the public, ... I think the policies ought to be the same for all precincts.

Ze Frank

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

Chaz Bono

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Daniel Goleman

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Brad Williams

I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.

Elizabeth Scott

Sometimes being me is very confusing.

Chris Evans

Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

Timothy Noah

Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Dean Wareham

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.

Edgar Allan Poe

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Ed Murray

My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Gilbert Herdt

On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we also know that gays and lesbians have higher levels of stress problems.

Idina Menzel

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

Neil Chethik

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Brian Higgins

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Willa Holland

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Dan Kimble

There's nothing we can do to restrict them.

Jeff Hawkins

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

Karen Parker

The boaters didn't like being restricted when they didn't have to be. The homeowners wanted stricter regulations.

Val Kilmer

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Peter Arno

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Ed Markey

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Chetan Bhagat

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.