Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Tommy is a moving object, so when we do find him we'll arrest him. We will also arrest those who try to get in the way of his arrest.

Hamid Karzai

We are glad and happy for what Pakistan is now doing on their territory to chase terrorists and to arrest them,

We should remove the documentation from where she was arrested because it was unconstitutional.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

James Fox

We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

Al Sharpton

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.

Barbara Kruger

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

Jesse Jackson

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

There are indications that at least one of the people involved in this that was arrested was yesterday expressing support for what happened in Israel and was gratified that it had occurred,

The reinstatement is only a partial victory, we are now fighting to get our comrades who were arrested released from jail.

There has been a fairly marked recovery in retail demand that has created a slightly greater lift in trade prices than we saw during the first quarter of last year. This means that, for the time being, at least the market has arrested the slide in residual values.

We are working to calm the tension. We think this is a conflict that began outside of school since it happened on a Monday. The two students who were arrested were found with brass knuckles in their backpacks, they weren't used, but that is a prohibited weapon.

We have been informed by police of the arrest of these two players and we will now await the conclusions of their investigations.

Chris Van Allsburg

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest him in Montgomery to pick up his cousin. We did some research and found out that Grice was stabbed that day and he was in the hospital.

But nobody will oppose that because there is already an unanimous decision by community members that offenders must be whipped. If a person tries to oppose the whip system, that person too would be arrested and whipped immediately for his or her opposition.

Billy Graham

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

We never got there. ... One of us was arrested in Shreveport ... and the car finally dropped dead in Houston, ... I was stuck in Houston for about a week. I finally called my parents and asked them for money to go back to New York.

You know, it makes me sad, ... But I'm not going to get into it. I don't want to get arrested and get into trouble. I'm just trying to get into college.

My client was arrested following the decision of the French judiciary.

Members of law enforcement who peddle confidential law enforcement information for their own profit will be caught, arrested and vigorously prosecuted, as will those who buy that information for their own criminal advantage.

You'll all recall that there was the arrest of the shoe bomber Richard Reid in December of 2001, and he was instructing the cell leader on the use of the same technique.

We have to keep in mind that the police were in the process of apprehending a criminal suspect who had resisted a number of attempts to arrest him and who had shot a police officer,

We have taken a lot of steps not only to arrest the decline in military spending, but in fact to reverse it.

We received information that he was in the Roosevelt Homes where he frequents. Our officers went there and arrested him without incident.

We executed the search warrant and arrested him. He helped us to develop undercover identities.

Under the existing laws, they have averted a disaster from taking place in this country; they have arrested the people who have been conspiring ... so we don't need new laws,

We are not ruling out the possibility of further attacks by the Islamic militants despite their top leaders were arrested early this month.

Those arrested are believed to have helped in plotting the assassination.

We are disappointed in those decisions. I think their choice to arrest us reflects on them.