Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Rockefeller

We don't know how to protect against any biological (weapon). ... You play it safe, and the plane doesn't fly, and people are going to have to get used to that, and people are not going to like that, but it's what you've got to do in this era,

Shimon Peres

We don't intend to extend settlements, as I have said, and how to stop natural growth is a very difficult definition. I can hardly understand what it is. But I think this is a bridgeable position and I do not believe this should serve as a reason for introducing doubts and the value and the need to do it immediately. I think the alarm clock started to click again and we shouldn't fall asleep.

Brad Smith

We do feel we are starting to turn the tide against spam. It is far too early to proclaim victory.

We work hard against the press and we've got several guys who can handle the basketball. It's hard to press us. It can be done, but we work at it and the kids do a nice job.

Jim Calhoun

We worked on the 1-3-1 for three straight days this week and it paid off. It means a little something extra to go home with a win against such a great team. The enthusiasm of each shot is big when playing in such a hostile environment as we were today.

Stephen White

We worked on playing against a zone in practice, but tonight, I think we panicked.

We worked long and hard on the different rotations against their press.

We battled back to about six and they went again on a run. It was a good game but they hit some big shots. I don't know how many they hit, but they hit enough.

We basically wanted to take Spencer out of his comfort zone, and that's hard to do against the best player in the country. We just wanted to make all his shots difficult, and we did that.

We are always happy when we win, but it wasn't a 100 percent portrayal of how we will fare against 4A schools.

Tom Brady

Xavier is a big rival of ours and they are in our league, so it was nice to get that first league win against them. It was definitely fun volleyball.

Rick Atkinson

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck... even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.

Richard Mourdock

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

Pope Benedict XVI

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

Sarah MacLean

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated.

Sarah MacLean

Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.

Simon Hoggart

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past two games). For them to get the ball back right away gave us more momentum. Then we get the turnover and convert on that.

The decision was made to proceed speedily and appropriately to bring UU4 down, weighed against the alternative of shutting down multiple units, creating significant other risks,

The decision was made after substantial documentation of not fulfilling his responsibilities. It was hard for Larry; he's going against someone who supported him politically.

Jim Connors

The decision to utilize a 34K core in our storage network processor design came after extensive internal benchmarking against a competitive multi-core solution. The realized saving in die size and power consumption, coupled with its compelling performance, made the 34K core stand out as the clear winner.

The decision to meet again in a few weeks shows that OPEC's price appetite is pretty robust.

The defendant needs to be fairly informed of the charges against which he must defend,

John Buck

The deepest in the league, by a long shot. They're all really patient hitters. It's not often you have all nine guys who play tough and take pitches. You've got to go the full nine innings, especially against these guys.

The decree is protection against all future diversions from the Arkansas River. The Board of Water Works was extremely cooperative in obtaining it, and we look for their help in defending it. We rely on their expertise.

Edward Leigh

The Department for Education and Skills looks to be losing ground in its battle against truancy. Having remained at the same level for many years, the level of truancy has suddenly increased - to over 0.8% of school days.

Richard Garnett

The Democrats won't have the votes to sustain a filibuster even if they wanted to, ... I think people will vote against him, even though they know he's going to be confirmed, because the polarization's gotten worse. But that's unfortunate, because whatever one's ideological views, based on his merits he is one of the best qualified nominees in 50 years.

Frank Lautenberg

The Democrats voted against this budget resolution, and it wasn't so much on the issues we wanted to have taken care of. Listening to the debate, each of us wants to protect Social Security in different ways. One can observe that we both want to do something about Medicare, but in different degrees and in different ways.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

The Democrat party had asked me to consult with these two parties over the issue and this evening we decided that each party go back to consider it again before giving their answers tomorrow.

Jude Wanniski

The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy briefly revived for his party. It will have to, if it ever again aspires to be the majority party.

The Democratic Party has sunk to a new low with a false, personal attack against his family. It's gutter politics, and it has no place in Montana.

The Delphi bankruptcy didn't help. The concern is, what are the repercussions of that for General Motors and for other automakers and the component makers. And it's all happening against background where real wages are not rising, so the question is, who's going to buy what American manufacturers produce?