Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

So we have a culture ? and one could say it's an advanced form of maritime culture ? that we've had here in New England for a couple hundred years.

Sonny Rollins

So the people over there have a very advanced appreciation of music and they recognize the power and the beauty and the wonderfulness of jazz.

On Dec. 23, GPSS asked the Department of Administration for an advance of next months' allotments so they can make payroll. What we're going to do to help them out is meet with them and review their finances.

Arthur Kornberg

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

Oil contract terms consistent with the Governor's proposed oil tax bill would provide the predictability and durability necessary to advance the gas project to the next phase.

Once we decide what the change will be, we will give the county a 14 day advance notice before the change is made. A letter is sent to county officials informing them of the change.

The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.

During the fourth quarter we successfully increased production in our existing factories as well as our newer operations to support strong demand in several end markets, including wireless communications and consumer electronics. Our leadership in wafer bumping, wafer level processing, flip chip, 3D packaging and other advanced package and test solutions has created what we believe is a strong pipeline of business. We are focused on optimizing our business opportunities, leveraging our strategic alliance with IBM, and laying the groundwork for expansion in Singapore and China.

Edward Kennedy

During Senator Ashcroft's quarter-century of public service, he has taken strong positions on a range of important issues in the range of the Justice Department, ... Unfortunately and often he has used the power of his high office to advance his personal views in spite of the law of the land.

During my opening remarks, I explicitly encouraged attendees to take a shot at hacking the wireless network. Given the level and concentration of hacker talent at these events, I was more than pleasantly surprised they did not succeed. In fact, this is the first year the wireless network has managed to stay up without interruption for more than four hours. That is a true testament to the intrusion protection and advanced security functionality of Aruba's wireless solution.

Alan Greenspan

Demand may be moving closer into line with the rate of advance in the economy's potential, given our continued impressive productivity growth, ... Should this favorable outcome prevail, the immediate threat to our prosperity from growing imbalances in our economy would abate.

Debating is something candidates are expected to do. If the debates are lively and cantankerous, it advances the cause of the public being able to make a choice for the Republican nominee.

Deeper debt relief, the Ottawa Treaty on land mines, the global movement for women's rights and protection of the environment -- none of these advances would have happened without NGO ideas and pressure.

Companies shouldn't have to resort to a rip and replace requirement to advance their technology. Our product helps companies maintain some of their most important investments and provide a cushion for a soft landing.

Despite their renowned prowess at reverse engineering, the Chinese do not have the factories to produce this type of advanced electronic equipment,

Pat Toomey

They're on their way up, and they're going to be slow and methodical about recovering the political capital and the ground they will need to advance more of their agenda.

There's a tremendous amount in the new Office 2007. We do believe this is the most significant advance in over a decade.

There is substantial further advance looming now on the heels of this move. There are a couple of things that could show up down the road that we should keep our eye on.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

There's always going to be the need for the shared movie experience. No matter how advanced home entertainment systems get, you're not going to have an 80-foot screen with stadium seating.

AT&T offered the optimum solution to consolidate our telecommunications services. They have unsurpassed breadth and depth of services which will enable us to increase efficiencies and decrease overall network costs. More importantly, maintaining an efficient and advanced network is crucial to our business, as we continue to strive to deliver outstanding customer experience.

At advanced base camp, we'll be breathing only half the oxygen we're used to at sea level. By the time we reach the summit, we'll be climbing, sleeping and eating at heights that only jet liners cruise.

As we enter the Participation Age, the requirement for developers to provide richer Web experiences to attract increasingly Web savvy audiences only continues to grow. And today's 4.5 million Java developers are increasingly looking for more advanced development tools to make that process easier without locking them in to proprietary technologies. With today's announcement, Sun is further demonstrating our commitment to this community by delivering Java Studio Creator 2, the leader in building standard Java applications with advanced features like AJAX-enabled components, while still maintaining an incredible level of ease-of-use.

As we demonstrate these technologies in real applications, we will be able to advance the designs even further and incorporate the lessons we've learned. This is a rigorous process designed to demonstrate the technical credibility of the research that has been and will be conducted.

Kathleen Blanco

As we asked southeast Louisiana to evacuate in advance of Katrina, and probably one million people or more evacuated safely, we are asking the same southwest Louisiana,

As we have previously announced, we are in advanced stages of preparing a demonstration in both Hong Kong and Singapore.

As scalability, performance, and advanced administration requirements are realized, you will need to look to a 'major database provider' to satisfy the business needs.

Peter Brown

As women increasingly join and continue to advance through the management ranks, making major contributions to their companies and the North American auto industry, it's important to applaud their talents. We're pleased to shine the spotlight on this impressive group of executives.

Ted Haggard

all of us have a responsibility to advance God's will through government.

The most advanced organisms at the time were bacteria, so there isn't a big extinction event you can identify as cut-and-dry as the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Although not enough data are available to call a winner just yet, we strongly believe that a next-generation agent that comes to the market well in advance of the competition will enjoy a strong foothold and will be difficult to overcome. However, we have seen the hepatitis C treatment space change dramatically within just a few short years and a similar revolution in the future is always a possibility.