Famous Quotes & Sayings

We appointed Tony Morris to start and finish a job and that's what I would prefer,

John Ashcroft is not a friend of liberty and justice. George Bush, the appointed president, is not someone who ---prior to a month ago--- ever demonstrated any insight or acuity about the world around him. Have these men been born again, again?

We thought we needed some time because the people need to be appointed and start meeting, and that probably won?t happen until the very beginning of March. We thought we needed at least three months.

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

Marvin Hier

He just took the job, nobody appointed him, nobody else wanted it.

David Rosenberg

There is a historical pattern that everyone should be aware of because each of the past three newly appointed Fed chairman began their tenure with a quick succession of interest rate hikes.

There is no economic justification to raise rates. There is no sign that prices can go up much in this competitive environment? Raise rates or not raise rates, I feel that the market will continue its appointed rounds on the up side.

We're prepared to invest another $100 million to develop this business. I just appointed our head of astronaut relations to arrange for them to make deposits.

He was appointed yesterday (Monday) and the clubs were informed. Tomorrow he will be presented.

Wolfgang Paul

In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

I see a reawakening of elected and appointed officials to recognize the injustices of the past, ... We have a responsibility to correct those wrongs as much we can.

It is my expectation as the person appointed to these cases that we are going to provide these people with at least a minimal level of comfort and security. The providers do not have the skill to know or understand when a person is getting in the danger zone.

Just because we have not yet appointed a permanent manager, it doesn't means that our scouting team is not out there looking at players.

I think it starts at the very top with the elected officials, goes to the appointed officials, goes to the Department of Criminal Justice ... and down to the prison employees who were very lax that day.

Paul Klee

Standing at his appointed place, at the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from the depths. And the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

Someone needs to say from time to time that our leaders are appointed leaders, are engaged in practices that are arrogant.

The governor appointed people to the hate crimes and discrimination commission who share the goal of the commission -- to eliminate hate crimes and discrimination wherever it exists.

Ban Ki-moon

Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

The position of city attorney is a full-time position in Selma. But he is not an elected official. He is appointed by the mayor (James Perkins Jr.).

Artur Davis

But the larger point that I've made is that we've done 25 years without a black Alabamian being appointed to the federal bench,

This shows that the ruling elite does not want free discussion. There has been a change of leadership, and the new governor has been appointed from Moscow. Why discuss anything when it is the boss in Moscow who is deciding all policy?

Chuck Grassley

There are a number of qualities that I've looked for in a Supreme Court nominee. I believe that the nominee should be someone who knows he or she is not appointed to impose his or her views of right and wrong.

John Abizaid

We've got to get more senior Iraqis involved -- former military types -- involved in the Iraq security forces, ... In the next couple of days, you'll see a large number of senior officers being appointed to key positions in the Ministry of Defense and the Iraqi joint-staff and in Iraqi field commands.

We've decided to reject the two new commissioners who have been appointed to execute the government's ploy to rig votes in the next general election.

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

During the spring, a citizen's committee was appointed to study the library's facility and needs, and we realized that we needed more space.

Farmers have responded to escalating fertilizer prices and low commodity prices by delaying purchase decisions until an appointed time closer to spring seeding.

James Roosevelt

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.

At the time Mr. Schultz was gathering data for his book, Bill Cooper was Town Manager in New Gloucester. Bill's leadership, and that provided by the town's elected and appointed officials and volunteers, contributed to the development of the Tax Increment Financing District that encompasses the campus. The cooperation and support offered by local officials provided a positive environment for the Libra Foundation to implement its vision, renovation, and development of Pineland.

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? / As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: / So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Andrew Sullivan

Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! ... The president has some serious exposure here. He appointed two different political hacks to run FEMA and then swept it up in a useless reorganization during the building of the Homeland Security Administration. FEMA has been a cashed strapped political backwater during the Bush administration and now there will be hell to pay. If I were Michael D. Brown, director of FEMA I would be brushing up my resume.