Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

John Feudo

We want to put the issue to rest, and give neighbors a sense of closure as well, have a final, clear, black and white call on how the park will be used.

Louis Farrakhan

We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders of organizations come together to speak to Americans with one voice ... this has never happened in our history.

Louis Farrakhan

We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders come together to speak with one voice, ... This tells us a new day is dawning.

John Boyd

We want full restitution ... so black farmers can move on with their lives.

Alan Ruskin

The problem with inflation targeting is that it carries with it a risk of less flexibility at times, and that could be problematical. But it also makes policy less of a black box, so policy is likely to be more transparent.

John Holland

The real heroes were those pilots. At night, it was like going into a black hole. They had to come down between those buildings using only the lights of the aircraft.

Noelle Reed

There is a lot of black and white.

Shelly Spivack

There is debt and there is a black hole.

Ed Black

The reality is that we have a history with Gore and have worked with him on many issues. There are people in the Bush camp who don't seem to grasp tech issues, and they have sent out some signals I'm not comfortable with. Gore really understands the essence of the industry, and I think his appointees to key places would reflect that understanding.

Bill Whalen

The reality is that the knee-jerk reaction by the governor's opponents to take him down is to call (Schwarzenegger) a Bush Republican,

Michael Genovese

The Reagan legacy is very vulnerable because George W. Bush has embraced it so wholeheartedly. Bush is the model, not the father, of the legacy. So much of the Reagan legacy is dependent on the Bush legacy.

Conrad Black

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Raza Rabbani

The people of Pakistan are rather disappointed. They have seen the U.S. pay a great deal of lip service supporting democracy in Muslim countries, but when we look at what is happening in Pakistan, President Bush says he shares the president's views and his democratic vision for Pakistan. For a great many, that is flawed.

Thad Cochran

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Ted Cruz

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

Elliott Abrams

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

get rid of our dependence on oil and move toward clean, renewable domestic energy policies.

Richard Segal

From an investor's point of view, it will do us well to reduce our dependence on the United States market.

Tim Holden

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Bobby Bowden

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Robert Hall

Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet.

Chris Chocola

We need to move away from our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and instead utilize the energy resources we have right here at home.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

Tom Harkin

Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope.

John Donne

When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

John Donne

When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity.

Katherine LaNasa

When I first met Robert Patrick, I died - he is so scary looking - he is a scary looking man.

Mirwaiz Umar

We are holding special prayers for those who died in the earthquake.

Michael Baden

The people who died were hit by shrapnel.

Aquilino Pimentel

Worse, the name of her father who had died was still on the list.

Robert Redford

What about a sequel to 'Butch Cassidy?' Well the guys died in it, what is it going to be, a spiritual film? Well how about a prequel? That's pretty desperate.

Karen Johnson

She died Saturday morning in the hospital, she was part of the original cluster,

Donnie Smith

Most of those who were killed died in their homes.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Joe Manchin

We're still sitting down in Houston. He (Perry) wants us to try to take these people, ... Every governor is getting frustrated, We will help if they'll just let us.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Stephen Kinzer

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Robert Maxwell

Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Fred Sainz

We can't piecemeal policy, so the mayor thought it was the right thing to do.

Nancy Pelosi

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

Lou Harrison

I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.

Isaac Newton

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Clint Eastwood

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

Amy Beaner

He did well today. He's been training with Ray (Gallagher) and Cory (Martin) and those two are (sidelined), at least temporarily.

Pablo Picasso

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Daniel Alfredsson

I think this stretch has been really important. Not just for Ray but the team, as well.

Raymond E. Feist

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

Jamie Friedman

Ray Ozzie is a valuable technology resource, and his role now will be more delineated. It's a better use of Ray and his skill set and training.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Sam Walton

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.