Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

Chris Asplen

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

Terri Jones

The power here can be a driving force in the community for both good and bad, and so you have to elect someone you can trust to not abuse those powers, and I feel really confident that John is in that category.

Robert Whiting

The potential for abuse with these contracts is, and has been, a concern.

Gary Sherman

We applaud the courageous person that made this referral, and congratulate our investigators and fiscal managers that have worked hundreds of hours investigating this case. We mean business when we say we are going to clean up programs and run a tighter ship. We will urge prosecution to the full extent of the law for those who abuse the system and misuse public resources taking them away from those who need them most. This agency is on course to reform its operations; those that are defrauding DSS may want to consider coming forward of their own accord.

John Pierce

We are a high school of the 21st century, ... Instances of substance abuse are an issue and concern.

Bill Jenkins

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Edward Livingston

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

Charles Bradlaugh

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Charley Reese

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

Antony Jay

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

Dennis Kucinich

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Cecile Richards

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

Charlie Melancon

I don't represent corporations.

Brian De Palma

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

Billy Bragg

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Al Franken

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Douglas Adams

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Thorstein Veblen

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.