Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Mark Rosenker

We've seen fatigue. We don't know why that fatigue appeared. That is what we're trying to determine. This crack appears to extend through a majority of the spar at the location of the separation.

Keith Moore

The problem with the OPES group was that it appeared to be developing a mechanism to make it easy for unauthorized third parties to modify content in transit -- say by ISPs to insert advertisements.

Eric Holder

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.

Anthony DiClemente

The reality is that Blockbuster has burned through $267 million in cash through the end of the second quarter and it appears that they are still burning cash to date.

Art Ayre

There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months that we're hitting a soft patch of our own. I'm sure that's discouraging to those looking for a job.

Pat Cash

We usually belt out AC/DC and Bryan Adams numbers. Now, playing the guitar appears more fun ... tennis demands commitment of an entire year on the tour.

Thomas Mallon

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

Thomas Nashe

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Brian Dolan

We've seen dollar/yen slip on that China comment.

George Bald

We have so many companies at Pease that are involved in international business. China is the world?s seventh-largest economy today and will likely be the fifth by the end (of 2006).

Tim Adams

The real issue is 'How do you help China integrate into the global economy in a way that maximizes growth and minimizes disruptions?

Jan Lambregts

There is a lot of focus on the visit and understandably so. China has shown last year that it will give into significant outside pressure. It wants to do as little as possible and escape a protectionist fall out.

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Michael Callahan

Ultimately US companies in China face a choice -- comply with Chinese law or leave.

Tim King

We are going to launch our first joint venture in the middle of this year with China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd, our largest franchise partner.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Elia Kazan

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Barbara Tuchman

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Alexei Sayle

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Horst Koehler

Poles freed not just themselves, they launched a process which radiates until today, ... The fact that Poland threw off the yoke of communism led to the unification of Europe and a united Germany.

John Linder

When called upon, the United States has come to the defense of Europe twice during World Wars I and II, and has opposed Communism around the world.

Vaclav Klaus

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Louie Gohmert

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Michigan State

I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.

Charles Bukowski

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Carol Moseley Braun

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Carlos Fuentes

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

C. S. Lewis

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

John Hudson

We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that.

Agnes Smedley

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Alan Sillitoe

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Alan Shepard

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

Charlotte Bronte

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

Charlotte Bronte

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Alan Shearer

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.

Chuck Collins

We ought to have a seat at the table so we can protect the interests of workers.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Ken Starr

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

John Thune

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

Donald M. Payne

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Maxine Waters

The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.

Bernie Sanders

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Michael Bennet

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

William Harvey

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Dave Brat

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

Andrea Hirata

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Allen Zaremberg

We're trying to work together to resolve policy issues.

Louis Pitschmann

To say there is no policy is incorrect.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Riley Wallace

We've got a lot of new systems going.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.