Famous Quotes & Sayings

The shadier car dealers will make them think they have to accept the new terms. That is where the abuse comes in. You don't have to accept the new terms.

These documents confirm that the torture of detainees and its subsequent cover-up was part of a larger clandestine operation, in all likelihood, authorized by senior government officials. Despite mounting evidence of systemic abuse authorized or endorsed from above, however, not a single high level official has thus far been brought to justice.

Shashi Tharoor

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.

The state's combination of abundant renewable resources, high fuel prices, limited geographic area, and recognized expertise in hydrogen technology R&D, makes it an ideal location to lead the state's transition to a renewable energy-to-hydrogen economy. By attracting considerable investments of capital and expertise to Hawaii, we will be investing wisely for our future needs.

Pete Domenici

The state of Alaska has been waiting a long time to let the United States of America, which they're part of, share in their abundance of oil, and today we finally have said that it's time.

Jack Straw

The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness,

The study is an important reminder of what we have been saying now for two years at UK: that these forms of abuse and victimization touch the lives of way too many students and that these behaviors cannot be tolerated in a university environment where we want students to reach their fullest academic potential.

Dana Perino

The signing statement makes clear that the president will faithfully execute the law in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution. The president has welcomed at least seven Inspector General reports on the Patriot Act since it was first passed, and there has not been one verified abuse of civil liberties using the Patriot Act.

The taxpayer should not pick up the bill for abuse committed by members of the religious orders.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

Prosperity is so much more than riches. It is the abundant overflow in every area of your life.

Our equity underwriting activities were at record levels as robust equity markets contributed to an abundant deal flow.

Our family did what the Abu Sayyaf asked and we believed them,

Often, we don't realize we miss infectious diseases until we have invasive species that become pests without their natural enemies. Parasites act like thermostats - when a species becomes abundant it is more susceptible to infectious diseases. The disease acts like a safety valve, keeping populations in check.

John Burnside

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

Jake Roberts

I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk.

Muqtada al Sadr

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

Julian Assange

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

Margaret Thatcher

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

Mark Twain

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Mary Beard

It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it.

Jerry Brown

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

Gloria Gaynor

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

Jenny Holzer

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Horace Bushnell

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Kevin Anderson

It's my father's legacy. The government has always, and continues to this day, to abuse the secrecy stamp. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Dan Glickman

Consumers can expect a safe and abundant food supply which will be there beyond January 1, the year 2000.

Olympia Snowe

Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover, ... ...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them.

Congressman Souder wants to decrease drug abuse but encourages it by blocking peoples' access to education. Federal studies show that these efforts do not work. They're hurting our economy and society.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Marco Rubio

The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.