Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nydia Velazquez

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Nancy Johnson

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.

Colm Toibin

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

Malcolm Gladwell

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Patrick Murphy

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

Norm MacDonald

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

We are investigating whether any security issue was breached. The technician is cleared for access in that building, but he shouldn't have left that door open. He should have notified someone to secure the area when he left.

We are creating a new model for delivering consulting services that will allow our clients to have greater access to innovative solutions for solving their important business issues.

Ken Green

We are contributing just over $4 million directly toward sewer with our tap and access fees during construction of the project. In addition to this, we have agreed to front $400,000 of this to the city (as) construction begins.

We are constantly looking for opportunities to enhance our guests' dining experience. This new relationship with Sky Bank offers our guests convenient access to their bank deposits from a well respected financial institution.

This needs to be addressed. There is good access to that area now, there is the potential to bring infrastructure, and it is close to city limits.

Dan Glickman

We are glad that Bram Cohen and his company are working with us to limit access to infringing files on the BitTorrent.com website.

We are looking at whether a company that controls the pipeline to the home will provide open access as opposed to favoring its own content.

We're comfortable going to church with people of different colors, but we don't have a perception that the access to a good job, a good education (is) equal for all races.

Bill Richardson

We recognize that there are potential home heating oil shortages, ... We're concerned about natural gas too, both the prices and access and other issues.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.

Anita Borg

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

Buzz Aldrin

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

There are a ton of services out there for parents to access to get help for that kind of thing. It is sometimes difficult and very bureaucratic to get that help, but if you keep pushing for it, you can get it.

Jane Anderson

There is a trend toward making jobs more mobile and permitting employees to have remote access to work from home.

Wal-Mart provides health insurance to full and part-time associates. For many associates, a job at Wal-Mart means new access to health coverage.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

Daniella Alonso

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

Kristin Armstrong

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

We don't have buildings; we don't have cafeterias; we don't have football teams and marching bands. What we spend our money on is the actual education that students are getting and in particular, we spend our money on making sure that students have access to faculty.

Hasso Plattner

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

Paule Marshall

We're not sure right now exactly where IM fits in our freight business, but we're adopting it because IM offers yet another channel through which our customers can access Yellow Freight. That's a good thing.

We are really pleased that people are so passionate about the Top 100 DJs poll and their dance music. The poll has continued to grow over the years and we're delighted with the phenomenal response this year. The dance scene is now much more accessible to far more people than it ever was five or 10 years ago. This is reflected in the sheer volume of votes received.

We are pursuing opportunities to sell this technology to other luxury motor manufacturers, and to companies operating in the vehicle accessory market.

Robert Koch

We are pleased that Florida has acted in favor of its citizens by allowing them to access the wines of their choosing. This is a victory for consumer choice, fair trade and U.S. wineries.

We are particularly concerned about the health of detainees who may have escaped this narrow definition of a hunger-striker. They may not be receiving any medical treatment. We urge that independent medical experts be given access to detainees.