Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Chuck Bell

We want to recognize their effort, and we want to see a better immigration bill in Congress. As a local resident, I support their cause. They're working hard and trying to get a piece of the American dream.

Gary Beard

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

Manuel Chiriboga

We want to point out that the bill is one thing and the free trade negotiations are something else.

Chris Gent

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

Jeff Sessions

When figures start flowing up to $200 billion, I have concerns, ... $1 billion is a lot of money.

Charlie Dent

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Charlie Dent

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

Brian Murphy

We've seen our electric bills skyrocket. The city is trying to help. Our goal is to lower and stabilize what you pay for electricity supply.

Elizabeth Warren

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

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.

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Carl Sagan

I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

Bible Bible

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

Mohammad Khatami

I renew the pact and oath I have with the people, and nothing will stop me from implementing the program I promised them,

Mayor Iwuc

I still feel that my oath of office is to uphold the charter.

William Shakespeare

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

Mitt Romney

When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

George W. Bush

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

Jackie Robinson

When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

Rahm Emanuel

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Agnes Repplier

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Alan Ladd

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

Alan Keyes

The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.

Charlie Crist

Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.

Charles Sumner

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Charles Edison

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Brandan Wright

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.

Austin O'Malley

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Vin Laczkoski

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Bernard Kouchner

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.