Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Warfield

Pataki might think ethanol will win him farm votes in Iowa. But when he's carrying the weight of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights, a boutique tax cut for alternative fuels won't put much in Pataki's tank for a presidential race.

Dennis Wiese

I believe we should live in a society where abortion is rare but safe.

Patricia Ireland

John Ashcroft ... stands for some of the most regressive policies on the ultraconservative agenda. He would ban contraceptive pills, deny contraceptive action to a woman who had been raped and would not allow an abortion in a case of incest.

Ted Joyce

There are ongoing trends that are pushing both birth rates and abortion rates down significantly, and those larger trends are more important than the effect of these laws.

Deirdre McQuade

If supporters of RU-486 believe the FDA followed the law in approving RU-486 for abortion, they should have nothing to fear from the proposed review. But if the FDA bent the rules to expedite approval of RU-486, the agency clearly valued the 'health' of the abortion industry over women's health and should be brought to account.

Eric Rudolph

The purpose of the attack on July 27th (1996) was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

Bill Hicks

What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?...

Ayelet Waldman

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Ayn Rand

Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Daniel Solove

Sure, the more intrusive the government becomes, the more potential crime it can solve.

John Pomfret

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

Carol Palmer

Restorative Justice puts a human face on the handling of crime and violence. Rather than being purely punitive in approach, restorative justice involves the entire community.

Sir Vanbrugh

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Bianca Jagger

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Jacques Rogge

It is a question of sporting ethics rather than a question of crime and criminality.

Judy Shepard

Last week you said in the debate that you opposed the Kennedy hate crime bill,

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Catherine Campbell

Lisa Madigan can do this, ... domestic violence is a crime in any court.

Keith Greene

There are so many other factors we have to address. Homophobia is something we have to address.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Joseph Wise

Basically, I'm a juggler. I can put many factors in order, aligning people, processes and money.

Quinn Pitcock

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

Bill Belichick

If a player has a lot of longevity and production, you're looking at two factors -- skill and durability,

Peter MacKay

for the simple reason that I love Nova Scotia. That's my home. It's where my family is and my heart ... so that always factors in.

Ryan Leniski

If it comes down to just soccer, we feel pretty good about our chances, that we can pretty much play with anybody. But you have unknown factors in a game, be it officials, crowds, other players. Those are things you gotta be smarter about, mature about, and still play within what we say we're going to do.

David Sims

He had a paucity of risk factors for having an event,

John Lawrence

One of our motivating factors is that talent knows no location. All you have to do is play the game and execute.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

William Cowper

Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Davitt McAteer

Ordinarily, violations occur on a regular basis. On any inspection, you'll find some. This is not a very huge mine. As the numbers grow in volume, it's something management has to address.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Debbie Metz

People looked at us as if we had grown two heads.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Fran Maier

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