Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can show a pattern and practice of prior conduct involving the same type of conspiracy to approach women through the use of state troopers ... to provide sexual favors. That's a pattern and practice that gives rise to an inference that there has been a conspiracy and an agreement to do that with respect to Ms. Jones.

Frederick the Great

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Louis Stokes

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

Robert Kiyosaki

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

Paddy Ashdown

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

Patty Murray

The Republicans can send the nation into turmoil, but we will not come to any agreement that does not include new revenue - and not just token new revenue. It is their choice.

The key to the success of this agreement is its sticking power. If they get 75 percent compliance it's very good news for oil prices.

The Iraqis have signed an agreement that allows inspectors any time, anywhere, by anyone. That is what they're expected to do. They have that obligation, so it's time for action, not discussions.

Karen Miller

Their numbers seem to be changing. Earlier in the week they said there was a $1.5 billion gap, ... We never negotiate numbers in the press. We're putting our energy into reaching an agreement at the bargaining table.

David Taylor

The initial group were Scottish but I don't want to box ourselves in and it depends if we reach agreement with one of them,

William Murray

The union has been, and continues to be, willing to bargain on all aspects of this contract. The union will continue to pursue all avenues open to us to reach a fair agreement for our members.

The trip has far more to it than simply the civilian nuclear agreement. If it takes more time to finalize that in a way that will answer questions that the U.S. Congress has and the Indian Parliament has, then that time should be taken.

The tribe is obligated by the settlement agreement to pay a fee for its children who attend the school district, same as the fee for students who attend from outside the county.

These are countries that are starting, together, themselves to identify as a region, as the Central American region. The Central American Free Trade Agreement is one example. Countries in that region, for example, have contributed troops to Iraq, and they've contributed at least a commitment to work on maybe joint peacekeeping activities, things of that nature. So, it's developing an identity as a component of the inter-American system and I think the Secretary would very much like to strengthen that.

E. O. Wilson

These kind of charges are devastating. Even when you're (only charged and not convicted), 90 percent of people will believe you did it. But we turned down all the plea agreements so that they could tell a jury they were innocent.

It's an excellent proposal. A lot of companies have such agreements informally, particularly for directors.

Tom Reilly

It's hard to believe the (Justice Department) would enter into an agreement like this, ... But apparently they have.

This is the first time I'm going to sign an agreement with any country.

This is the first that the governor has mentioned it (workers' comp reform) in connection with the budget. In our view, that makes an agreement a bit likelier this year.

This is the first national agreement that we're aware of that's ever dealt with H-2 A workers or guest workers in this country.

O. J. Simpson

This is not an administration, after all, that cares much for what the rest of the world thinks, nor one that cares all that much for international treaties, agreements or institutions that do not produce results the United States likes.

Robert Rubin

This isn't a question of rewarding China, ... A strong WTO agreement is very good for the United States.

Alexis Herman

This is the first agreement that obligates a federal contractor to conduct self-examinations, make across-the-board salary adjustments at every facility and then report its results to the department,

This is precisely the agreement that most of these guys when they were out of office said was tantamount to capitulation.

(The Department of Pesticide Regulation) could appeal it. They could go back and change the regulations. They could go back and consult with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Maybe that would come to agreement on what numbers to use. There are just so many ways that this could play out that I can't speculate on what may happen.

Ron Wyden

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

Stephen Young

Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

Thom Mayne

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Woody Allen

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen.

Richard Holbrooke

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Thomas Sowell

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

Robert Musil

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Rivers Cuomo

The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.