Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Larry Sabato

Lots of things that smell are legal. But if a candidate is putting an emphasis on ethics, then he has an obligation that the spirit of the law be adhered to, not just the letter.

Ian Smith

Last year, we took several steps to improve the financial profile of the Company, and we now enter 2006 with a stronger financial position and the operating leverage that supports investment into later-stage clinical programs. Specifically, our financial strength enables us to invest comprehensively in VX-950 and develop this product candidate to its full clinical and commercial potential. We are committed to maintaining the trajectory toward a 2008 NDA filing for VX-950.

Bill Col

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

Rick Greenspan

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

Joanne Drake

Mrs. Reagan has not endorsed any candidate in the campaign. Neither she nor President Reagan ever endorsed a candidate in a primary.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

Peter Swire

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Kelly Rowan

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Chipper Jones

I can't pick him up. He's the one guy. My nemesis.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Hugh Miller

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

Tom Elliott

This neighborhood will have plenty to say on this, don't worry.

William M. Thackeray

Though small was your allowance,You saved a little store:And those who save a littleShall get a plenty more.

Michael Heffernan

With Tokyo down and the Dow futures down there was plenty of reason to sell.

Scott Snyder

We still see plenty of upside. That region is still showing the most value.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Brian Ditto

There are plenty of rumors going round. But that's it.

Doug McCarter

We've been in this situation plenty of times this season.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Ted Ligety

I would prefer to win standing up to him.

Jeffrey Skilling

I would prefer they not know I'm considering selling.

Peter Hain

I would prefer that it wasn't there. I would prefer it was closed, yes.

Cate Blanchett

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are