Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jails may make an argument that canteen funds should be treated separately from government funds. We would argue that they aren't. Once they enter the canteen it's the government's money and needs to be treated like any other money that belongs to the government.

He can't argue his way to better numbers. He needs favorable results in Iraq. And that's out of his hands.

Thomas R. Insel

Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain.

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Najib Razak

I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.

To date, this is the best evidence for a long bar in our galaxy. It's hard to argue with this data.

Golf ratings are up with or without Tiger. Nobody's going to argue the point that he impacts ratings. At the same time, golf is a highly profitable, highly successful sport. This isn't a doomsday scenario for golf.

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

I think it's become the premier all-star game in the state. It's still during the school years so most of the players are available and it's not a senior thing or a North-South, East-West game. There are just great players on both teams. It's hard to argue that any of the top players in the state were omitted.

I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down then I would argue that the Fed would probably have to do a little less.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

David Boies

I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.

John Jackson

I think you can argue it's a problem for both parties, and with the whole system. Each party will take it and try to run with it. It hurts politics in Illinois.

I think you can argue it either way. If you're releasing your tax returns, at least you're controlling the timing.

Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.

Gary Ackerman

This was not something he can argue with because these are the concerns that are circulating on the Hill.

The people who are most enthusiastic about this are Hewlett-Packard and IBM. They just love this. I would argue that for 99 percent of business reasons there are very few cases where you really need it. There are instances where it is needed, but they are the exception, not the rule.

Mack Brown

We're playing what some argue is the best team in college football history.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

There is an issue here; operators argue that they can no longer get into the likes of Heathrow, London and other main hubs at peak times,

He wasn't the sort of person I would seek out in the pub, ... There was always tension around him and he would argue a lot and get very drunk. His wife Caitlin was a worry, too.

I think we kind of got some respect tonight. I think everybody sees how the defense can play. Everybody knows the offense can strike at will, so we're just trying to get better and better. All we can do is go out there and go undefeated and at the end of the season argue about it.

Julia Cameron

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Linda Hirshman

I think that one could argue that these women are letting down the team. Consider a society in which the entire Supreme Court is male. We may actually experience that in our lifetime. What would it feel like if the entire Congress were male?

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

I think we should write a platform that allows the nominee to argue his position.

I think a lot of folks who were at that meeting felt pretty chagrined, I would argue this is still pretty material information, given the high profile nature of this company and the emergence of click fraud as a high-profile subject.

I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court.

He had to do what he had to do. If I did something wrong at home, my mother had to punish me and I'm not going to argue with her. It's one of those disciplinary things.

For me, ... there are no real taboos, as long as it's done with respect and sensitivity and the care and creativity of an artist. But is there a clear line between pornography of a sexual and violent nature, and art? It is a fine distinction and we'll probably argue about that to the end of our days.

For the smaller services, the challenge is to make some kind of a case for why people would want to stay with them, ... They can argue today that they are more mature and they can offer more tools. This isn't a death knell for the smaller services, but this is a door slamming for them growing more.

Rick Santorum

If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery, ... You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.