Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Steve Shannon

People just fell in love with him. He was really like an ambassador for our show.

Martha Reeves

People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit. Now I'm going for the official title,

Jeff Tedford

People look to him for guidance. He is an ambassador for the team.

John Negroponte

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

Gary Wright

Jeff is a great player and a great ambassador for American International hockey. His play on the ice mirrors his conduct off the ice, and his offensive play and improvement we look forward to seeing this season.

Al Bagnoli

Kyle was a remarkable young man, a true scholar-athlete, an ambassador for Penn, a tremendous teammate and leader on and off the field, as well as a caring and outstanding brother. His loss will be felt for a long time. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family during this time.

Martin Romm

I think Doug should have time to be the ambassador of Coke and not necessarily get down into the weeds too deeply.

Bill Vaughan

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

Salome Hernandez

The ambassador will continue to travel in Venezuela. We will not be intimidated.

Viktor Yushchenko

recognition, but not only recognition of my work, but actually the efforts that were made by my people in the course of many, many centuries in their attempts to get their freedom. Independence cost a lot for Ukraine, and probably freedom cost even more than that.

David Gilmour

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.

Dr. Simon

Our findings show that, fortunately, suicide attempts and death by suicide are rare following the initiation of antidepressants. The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Anne Stillman

Restoration no longer attempts to strip everything down to the original surfaces. There are so many layers of history here. We want to be able to present that.

Nigel Hamilton

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.

Rep Curry

I think there will be attempts to change it.

Foster Friess

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Laura Schlessinger

My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.

Randy Halcomb

I tell my guys the more shot attempts we get each game, the greater our chances of winning.

Chris Caballero

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

John Calvert

That's the issue, whether we should suppress the open discussion of evolution. Can evolution ever be falsified if it can't be criticized?

David Longanecker

I think it's very important that we raise to a national level and a federal level a discussion about what's happening to our competitiveness.

Charles Kupchella

It has actually widened the gap and increased the negative rhetoric, ... It has not been helpful with anything at all. It's like playing two record players in a room whenever there's a discussion about it.

Bill Cowher

I will tell the players, as I've told the coaches, there will be no more questions about it, there will be no more discussion about it, our focus this week will be on the Indianapolis Colts. I don't think it will be a distraction at all and, having gone through the process myself, if anything it's inspiring to know there's an opportunity potentially for you.

Jim Tressel

I suppose when I was here 20 years ago, I don't remember much discussion about anything other than winning the Big Ten and winning the Rose Bowl.

Dick Cheney

I thought it was a good discussion of the issues, ... and we kept it to a high plane.

Jon Favreau

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Bill Fischer

There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.

Anthony Zinni

That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Richard P. Feynman

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Dean Wareham

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

Chuck Schumer

The president ought to do his own internal investigation of the vice president's office, to see what happened, set some standards and if need be take the vice president to the woodshed,

Fred Mumford

There are a lot of internal meetings going on here. We obviously don't have the power to make the quarry resume pumping.

Joe Hall

Relatives said (Mr. Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

Joe Hall

Relatives said he (Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

Ron Vos

Part of the project involved getting kids to send in videos. We set up news crews to go out and videotape the kids; we also had to find contractors to mount satellite dishes.

Zwelinzima Vavi

Surely we ought to respect the rights of all involved in the case.

Marlon Defillo

Out of 1,750 officers, we're looking into the possibility that maybe 12 officers were involved in misconduct.

Aaron Boone

That's the ultimate, man. To win one of those, to be involved in something like that, that's what we all play for.

Shea Hillenbrand

I think it's the atmosphere, it's everything involved with the Yankees and Yankee Stadium.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Claudia Stuart

Lisa was involved with so many organizations, and she was a trusted member within anything that she did.

Virender Sehwag

I think Pakistan is more under pressure than us because they are playing at home.

Asif Ali Zardari

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

Manmohan Singh

We are willing to supply to Pakistan whatever is on their priority list,

Ronald Neumann

Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan,

Imran Khan

You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief,

Imran Khan

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN

Imran Khan

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Robert Hale

We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

Colin Murray

We say she resisted and that is why she died.

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

Craig Thompson

I think our situation is we would probably be better suited to have somebody go 11-0 again. But two to three years from now, we'd be better suited to have two or three 9-2, Top 25 people. But right now we just have to keep pushing.

Jeff Francoeur

I think she's in a tough situation with what she's trying to do. I don't think she was worse than the others, I don't think she was better.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't matter, ... Every situation is a new situation.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.