Famous Quotes & Sayings

Each year, I take it upon myself as dean of students to go and talk to the freshman band members by themselves. I let them know that in order to be a part of the Southern University Marching Band, they don't have to take certain physical or mental abuse to be a part of the band.

Jimmy Wales

Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.

Greg LeMond

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

Basmah bint Saud

There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

What is happening to me should not happen to anyone. Congress and state legislatures need to send a message to local governments that this kind of abuse of power will not be funded or tolerated.

Barry McCaffrey

Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.

Though I think the majority of students are going to be responsible, there's a few who're going to abuse it.

We don't see any basis to declare a ceasefire. This is in response to the relentless attacks being waged by government forces against the unarmed civilians and abuse of the peace negotiations.

You have to have power to abuse it. You would be foolish to give money to a Democrat because they wouldn't be able to deliver anything.

This terrible thing that happened in my life was such a shock because I never saw any signs of violence or abuse in their marriage,

We all agreed that in order for it to happen there had to be some give here and there. I think one of the big ones was Tom understanding the situation and me giving him my utmost word that while I am out here I am going to be training hard and things are going to work out for the best and not to worry about it. ... It is difficult for him to just let a player go whenever he wants to go home. So I won't abuse the system.

John Ashcroft

Very frankly, I think the courts need to find a way to respect the Constitution and defend our children. And we've got to be very careful that we don't energize individuals whose object it is to abuse the children of America, and to have that happen on the Internet, ... Larry King Live.

John Thompson

There is nothing much better than going to a baseball game, getting a decent seat with a nice view (for one tenth of the price of a seat at Stamford Bridge) and enjoying a game with a beer in one hand and a NY-style hot dog in the other - and no chance of some idiot behind me shouting abuse or spitting obsenities at me (I am a Celtic supporter, I'm used to both).

The scale of the misappropriation, abuse and tax evasion is so large that they were unable to fit it into one case,

It would be naive to believe that kind of attraction stops after age 18, ... It takes no brilliance of vision to see that the sex abuse crisis involves the great difficulty of those with same sex attraction living in close quarters with males.

Michael Copps

The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits that either the applicants or the majority find here. The more I review the issues at stake in this proposal, the more I am persuaded it should not go forward.

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.

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.

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,

I urge everyone to offer their support to recovering addicts during this time of year, and to recognize that substance abuse affects people from all walks of life. For recovering alcoholics like myself, New Year's Eve threatens our chance to reclaim our lives. With support, however, recovering addicts can continue on their path to sobriety.

The Zimbabwean government has detained innocent people to coerce others to surrender. This is a gross abuse of the criminal justice system.

Mira Sorvino

We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about what she is doing, because she's having to look backward into her own vulnerability as well as using all her training and strength,

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.

Oliver North

The corruption at the UN didn't begin with the Oil for Food scandal and it certainly doesn't end there. The United Nations is nothing more than bureaucracy piled atop waste, wrapped in fraud, covered with abuse -- all of it funded by American taxpayers who foot 22 percent of UN dues -- more than any other nation. We also pour billions of dollars more into the coffers of its related agencies.

The church hierarchy is attempting to scapegoat gay people for its own failure to address the sexual abuse of children and young people that it alone created and covered up. The evil in this is that they are trying to equate being gay with sex abuse, which is appalling.

Kamala Harris

Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

Jenny Holzer

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Running 26 miles is quite a commitment. Just to be able to say that your body can handle that kind of abuse is a badge of honor. I thought the club was a wonderful idea. It's a good way for the students to channel their energies, and running is a lifelong activity they can do forever.

The best way to know any future is to cause one. And thats why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, youve taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere...So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isnt a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happen to be combining. You talk about virgin territory the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it.

not surprising considering what they are trying to hide, but the facts of illegal monopoly abuse are clear and undeniable." ()