Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Glauber

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of servicemen and women lack basic financial knowledge. We are here to unveil an important new program that will help members of the armed services and their families manage their money, and save and invest it wisely.

Alvaro Soto

Ultimately in a democracy you cannot have both participation in elected office and participation in armed militia. They are simply incompatible.

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Melanie Hill

We are looking in the future to expand it to other branches of the armed forces.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Nicolas Maduro

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

Norman Schwarzkopf

We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.

Gwen Stefani

The people who worked at the clubs just assumed I was a tagalong girlfriend or groupie. I'd get up on stage and the audience was just like, 'Show me your tits!' I had nothing to show anyway.

O. Henry

The point is to keep your distance. Rabies virus is serious. If a raccoon bites and runs off, we have to assume it is wild and the individual is placed in a treatment that may not have been necessary.

Brian Blessie

We're in a situation now where we've got to take care of business with Howard and Frank Phillips. I would assume we need to probably win six games to really clinch it.

Nicki Minaj

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

Sally Jewell

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

Gretchen Rubin

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

Mike Fatkin

We always felt we had a case geographically and politically, but what we couldn't do is assume it was going to happen.

Hugh Douglas

We always assumed he was coming here. When we found out, it was like, 'Wow!' But nothing surprises me anymore. It's a business.

Kim Beazley

I was defence minister for a few years,

Sellapan Ramanathan

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Nate Clements

Our goal as a defence is to go out there and dominate. I think we did that.

Gary Murphy

Part of the premium is due to its exposure to the military and defence industries.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper. Jurgen is shying away from making a decision.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper.

Agatha Christie

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Bob Ainsworth

I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.

Bob Ainsworth

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Kathleen Sebelius

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Eric Long

When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Patty Schnyder

She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around.

Tom Wilkinson

There are forces surrounding this trial ? dark, powerful forces,

Richard Williams

From our point of view, anything that forces a shutdown will speed up a settlement, which we view as a positive event.

Keith Whyte

The percentage of women who gamble has dramatically increased. Twenty years ago, it would have been 80 percent men, 20 percent women, and now it's 50-50.

J. Taylor

She doesn't have hobbies, she's not a gambler and she's not a traveler.

Nasir Khan

I don't Understand why People become Farmers, Gangsters & Gamblers when they join Facebook...

Christopher Meeker

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

David Sullivan

He is a very good player but it seemed a gamble paying that much for a young centre-half, and we had already spent our money anyway.

Frank Robinson

He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.

David Neumark

I think this is a gamble by opening up to more research. Some will be good, and some will be bad.

Gary Kendall

I thought, I'm going to gamble here. We haven't been putting too many hits back-to-back-to-back all year and that's what I was thinking there.

Dan Bennett

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Larry Coker

We're going to need all our able-bodied troops in Tallahassee.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

David Bonderman

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Kenneth Williams

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.