Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph P. Kennedy III

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

Dale Groutage

I work hard, I do my homework, and my strong point is to bring teams of people together in a bipartisan manner.

Joseph Biden

I look forward to working with Gen. Powell and President-elect Bush in a bipartisan manner to ensure that America's foreign policy objectives are met.

Olympia Snowe

Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

Ted Cruz

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

Asa Hutchinson

We are ready to lead and govern in a bipartisan way. We should work together in a positive way.

Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

Charles Schumer

The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget.

Gary Ruskin

The problem with congressional perks is that both parties love them. The congressional perk caucus is bipartisan and strong.

Bill Burton

Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.

Gary Ruskin

Leadership by example has never been a forte of the United States Congress. We see more of 'Do as I say, not as I do.' This is just another example.

Dave Camp

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

Kevin Bishop

Sen. Graham recognizes the importance of having an ILS at the Aiken airport. He continues to work with state and local officials to ensure Congress and the FAA recognize this priority,

Tony Fratto

Secretary Snow will be personally engaged on working with Congress. He's been a strong voice on this for some time.

Nan Aron

No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.

Christine Gregoire

Only a national settlement passed by Congress will be able to give us the public health gains that we really need if we want to stop the problem significantly of underage smoking,

Winslow Wheeler

My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.

Michael Marsh

My guess is, it's going to face a tough go in Congress. It really isn't being received very well in the industry.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Kevin Spacey

makes people think ... and have a healthy debate and an open debate, rather than being so fiercely on one side or the other.

Ned Lamont

Let's have a good, robust debate on the issues.

A. Johnson

No one at any time approached him during the Medicare debate.

Deng Xiaoping

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Goran Persson

give hope for a better future, but the political message from our debate is clear.

Rick Friesen

Given that by far the majority of those involved in the debate have not had the opportunity to view the episode, we feel it is important to give the public of New Zealand that chance.

Anthony Chan

Given our forecast, we do not expect that this statistical release will have much impact on the policy debate when the Fed meets,

Barbara Boxer

On the other side of this debate they are very good at getting votes. And they are very good at being politicians, but I don't think they are worth a wit in the gynecological operating room! I don't want them in that operating room, telling a doctor what procedure to use for my daughter, or my niece.

Charles Schumer

one of the finer debates that I have heard in 18 years in the House.

Russell Potts

We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.

Henry Hughes

She wasn't as forthright as she could have been, ... When something like this happens, someone has to be able to stand up and say, 'You know what? We didn't do the right thing here, and now we are going to make it better.'

Amisha Patel

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

Rand Paul

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

Al Franken

Thank you for the quick and forthright response.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Jarvis Deberry

Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them.

Benjamin Franklin

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

E. B. White

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

John Freeman

Several of us had heard rumors, which persisted for a period of time.

James Carbone

Mr. Bradford was the leader of a ring. If you heard the word 'Detroit connection,' Mr. Bradford was the leader.

Kevin Kelly

(McDowell) made up his mind to vote 'No' before he heard one piece of evidence.

Robert Roach

one of the worst ideas I have heard in a long time.

William Shakespeare

One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Ron Gettelfinger

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

E. Hurley

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Neil Lomax

Mouse's philosophy was, 'Hey, this is what we do. I want my third-stringers to throw. I want my receivers to catch,' ... I just, personally, now have an issue with it. What are you trying to prove after 70-75 points?

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Jay Sekulow

for speech that was a ... secular message or an invocation. So it's neutral on its face. It says, 'Say whatever you want to say.'

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Erik Whittington

The pro-life message will not be silenced in our schools.

Thalia

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Tamora Pierce

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

William Ford

The only person who can understand a veteran is another veteran.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.