Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Lichtman

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Steve Lapham

Maybe it was early season jitters on behalf of some of these guys who are playing in their first real rugby match. Those butterflies should be gone after the first couple of hits.

Chad Cluver

No, I don't think it's hit until I got into this gym. But now it's starting to hit pretty hard. On behalf of the players, coaches and managers, um, wow ? the support from this community is unbelievable.

Mark Shapiro

Obviously, this is a unique and significant commitment on behalf of ownership. Grady is one of our more unique guys. The level of commitment is distinct on both sides.

Nancy Lieberman

I can?t see Geno leaving; they couldn?t even come close to matching his salary. I think people should reach for the sky, I don?t think there?s anything wrong with that. I think that?s a very smart move on behalf of Phoenix.

John Furlong

From one Olympic city to another, we salute London. The years of hard work, dedication and planning on behalf of the London bid team have resulted in a fantastic choice for the 2012 Summer Games,

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

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

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Ron Garriques

Now we choose carefully what we introduce. We develop a lot of products, but we may not launch them.

Kenneth Prewitt

Never have we been so diverse, never have we been so many and never have we been so carefully measured.

Sathya Baba

If one' s conduct is to be right and proper, one should carefully observe the disciplines regarding diet.

Daniel Tammet

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Don Garber

Freddy is someone who needs to be carefully developed physically and competitively, ... He's playing with grown men, guys who are not going to care that Freddy's perceived as the great hope for the sport in this country. They're going to do everything they can to make sure he has a rough time.

Bible Bible

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Charles Johnson

One of the issues physicians will be interested in is carefully looking at the data and the FDA's interpretation of it. The issue for us will be to persuade physicians that it is OK to deplete B-cells.

Catherine Colonna

Let us do for energy what we once did for coal and steel.

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.

Nazrul Islam

Only two countries-- Indonesia and Australia--export coal more than 50 percent of their domestic use.

John C. McGinley

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

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.

Bruce Goodwin

My job ... is to ensure that the nuclear weapons in the stockpile are safe and reliable. Safe means no matter what you do to them they don't go off when they are not supposed to. Reliable means that should the president ever have to use one, it will work exactly as it is supposed to.

Mary Chapman

More needs to be done to ensure young people get a better understanding of the world of work and what it involves.

Chris Dodd

My hope is many of the problems we saw recently hopefully can be alleviated or at least lessened. These aren't just glitches. They can have a profound impact on our elections. We need to do everything in our power to ensure that voters not only are able to vote, but have that vote counted.

Anne Lang

Maybe make a work-related to-do list and a personal to-do list to ensure you can merge those together in a time frame that makes sense.

Robert Sweeney

Now we'll be able to ensure they will go to a more suitable location, and not be housed together.

Charles Simonyi

necessary to ensure maintenance of high quality running of the institution.

Herschelle Gibbs

Obviously my first objective will be to ensure a good start for the Cobras, but obviously I also intend taking the opportunity of showing what I can do at the start.

Josh Miley

Getting the first one and doing it fast relieved a little pressure. I was really nervous to get past that one. I was also tight for my semifinal. I didn't really wrestle well. I didn't attack. I just sat on the lead, which isn't my style, but I really just wanted to ensure that I got to the district.

David Wood

Fred has a pressing need for life insurance to ensure that Wilma and Pebbles could maintain their standard of living if he were no longer able to provide for them.

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Claire Buchan

He'll be talking about the spirit of the American people as exemplified by these miners and the workers who rescued them.

Roger Nicholson

As a result 13 underground miners are presently unaccounted for.

Robin Munro

They're making miners work excessively long shifts. They have too many miners underground.

Bob Friend

This is not a pep rally. It's telling the miners and the mine operators themselves to work right and make the right decisions.

Gene Kitts

These miners are experienced, they are well-trained. We are just praying they had an opportunity to put their training to use.

Bill Caylor

It's important that we monitor these miners with problems.

Mother Jones

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

Charles Schumer

My first reaction is a simple one: It could have been a lot worst. ... The president has not sent us a nominee that we've rejected already.

Lynn Coady

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

Sam Brownback

We want a nominee that's set, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg is set,

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Jeff Moss

Today (Tuesday) will be security review day for a lot of places,

Tim Wagner

We have not had time to review it and have no comment.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

George Stephanopoulos

It only works in the Senate if everyone agrees,

Tom Daschle

As we speak, the Senate is in session,

Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.