Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's put good people on the independent commission and take politics out. Let's give it real power, and let's go to work,

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Tim Roemer

Many of these recommendations proposed by the 9/11 commission one year ago might have made a difference in saving lives and preventing loss of lives in this hurricane.

Nick Gardner

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Jonathan Todd

Several companies have expressed their concerns to the Commission concerning Microsoft's Vista operating system.

Bill Richardson

My initial view is positive, ... but the Federal Trade Commission does a very good oversight role of ensuring that consumers are protected.

John Breaux

None of us on the commission are running again.

Valentino Castellani

When the IOC co-ordination commission returns, we are confident we will be able to show them that everything is in place.

Lionel Jospin

like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy.

Corazon Aquino

Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.

Audrey Miller

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.

Diane Ravitch

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy

Democritus

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Edward Abbey

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Shawn Williams

I feel like they accomplished something great. (They're) still in the Sweet 16. (They're) with us. They're a top, elite team.

Dumarsais Simeus

From what I heard on the radio all day, with the prospect of Preval being president, the elite is already lining up and getting ready to derail him and keep him from governing.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Dana Goodyear

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Youssou N'Dour

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

John Hutton

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Denis O'Hare

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

Kristin Armstrong

Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.

Scott Hamilton

It empowers the skater to participate in the result in a way she never has before. It is a step in the right direction.

Les Brown

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Maajid Nawaz

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Philip Gee

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Fred Brown

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Jim Turner

share that information with their constituencies using public-information channels.

Edward Tufte

Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.

Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Peter Parr

My information is that he should be right for week one.

John Whitaker

Obviously, we want to get more information to verify these things.

Ted Morgan

More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

Jim Bishop

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

James Green

Next to his own writings, this is the most important source of information about him. There are discoveries to be made here.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Trayce Geddes

Mediation did not work for us, in our town, with our people.

Peter Struk

Media has been all the go this morning.

Vera Gibbons

My friends in the media want to know when the housewarming party is going to be, and they want to know if Walter is going to come. He's already told me he'll be there.

O. Henry

No, I just thought I'd mention it to you people (the media).

Dennis Prager

In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

Dennis Prager

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Debra Winger

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eduardo Galeano

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Dick Van Dyke

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Abdul Kalam

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Aaron Eckhart

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Maxim Afinogenov

If we play like we did today we'll do good.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.