Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Canady

Meaningful, constitutional parental consent laws are designed to help and protect minors. Today, we are voting to uphold those laws.

William Kidd

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

David Rose

When we have consent decree with the city, we've got an obligation to ensure compliance, ... We've got to do what we can to enforce it.

Vicki Saporta

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

Edward Snowden

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Chen Yunlin

People will not be satisfied if their wishes are not met. They will not consent to prolonged obstruction of cross-Strait links.

Jack Straw

only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

Jeff Merkley

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

Stephan Seeger

It is incredibly hard to win a suppression motion in this state, because the evidence of consent is largely circumstantial.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Nong Duc Manh

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Alan Rickman

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Mary Radmacher

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Antoine Predock

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Solon

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law

Rafi Pitts

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.