Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Nerzig

We find it ironic and alarming that the people who protect the building are paid less than everyone else who works at the building.

Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Larry Jackson

I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and stuff like that these days.

Jamie Shea

If it were to be true, it would be alarming indeed, because it is one thing to push refugees over borders where the international community is now increasingly ready to deal with them in a humane way, but it's quite another thing to push them back into a wasteland where there is no food, very little water, no medical supplies, where everything has been looted.

Donna Kane

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Najib Razak

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

Paula Ghedini

Particularly alarming for us is the fact that this is supposed to be a cease-fire.

Anne Bauer

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

J. Philippe Rushton

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

Jody Williams

Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

Charles Kennedy

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

Mark Aitken

He'll have to declare conflicts on county business. But he doesn't have to resign his post on council.

Robert Zoellick

Helping to end violence, ease suffering and forge a lasting political solution for Sudan's conflicts remain high priorities for the United States, ... The situation remains tenuous.

John Fund

Regardless of whether or not the vetting process was complete, it represented impossible conflicts of interest,

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Lord Robertson

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Pete Hegseth

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Carol Bellamy

Until we stand up and first of all shine the light on it, until we identify the countries where it's happening, until women feel they can be protected enough to speak out, which they do not feel -- women and girls -- these days, we're not going to be able to do very much.

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.

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.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Walter Salles

So I had this idea for the film but I was shooting Foreign Land and I had written 10 pages on it about what the story should be.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.