Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted White

When both men tried to run, the suspect fired one shot from this assault rifle. That single shot struck one victim in the side, went out of his side and struck the next victim in his upper leg.

We considered two charges, felony stalking and assault with a deadly weapon, and found there was insufficient evidence on both.

yet another dastardly assault on an innocent humanitarian worker.

Susan Cain

You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.

Marsha Blackburn

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

Noam Chomsky

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

Jodi Kantor

Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.

Togolese authorities must investigate this assault fully and prosecute those responsible, ... This kind of brazen attack cannot go unpunished.

Greg Smith

I see it as an assault on the entire liquor industry by neo-prohibitionists.

Bob Filner

The Executive Office of the President seems to care more about hiding the truth about military sexual trauma rather than putting forward a budget to help women and men who have suffered military sexual assault and rape,

Chuck Robb

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

Chuck Todd

California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.

What you're seeing is a frontal assault on business as usual - the politics of insiders using the system to benefit themselves and their friends.

What you have here is an assault on Willie Copeland.

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

We actually got several of the sexual predator and sexual assault cases down in Provo last week.

Charles Schumer

...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers...

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate - the group behind Yellow Tail.

While they were walking to the park, she noticed that the guys had kind of dropped back. One guy really dropped back and all of a sudden the other individual grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. The other one yells out something like 'stop assaulting her', she managed to make a threat and than they both ran off.

While the language of the e-mail is vile, the e-mail itself is perfectly consistent with the boys' unequivocal assertion that no sexual assault took place that evening.

At this time, it?s private between me and the gentleman who assaulted me. We have an understanding,

At this time, it's private between me and the gentleman who assaulted me, ... We have an understanding.

The new constitution represents a serious assault on citizens' basic rights and freedoms.

Ron Zook

I know there will be an all-out assault on running backs a year from now, and there are some really good running backs in the vicinity.

Julie Andrews

New York was an assault on my senses in every way,

They demanded diamonds, ransacked the house and, after finding nothing, poured boiling water over the 47-year-old woman and assaulted her 26-year-old son.

The Titanic is really a wreck that's under assault from the environment.

If you take the definition to the umpteenth degree, you could call that an assault weapon.

In a democracy you do not have hooded men carrying assault rifles breaking into the offices of a newspaper and a television station in the middle of the night and beating up journalists and other staff. To talk of press freedom in such circumstances is grotesque.

If (the victim) was physically assaulted and there were any indications racial slurs were used, or that they had plotted and intended to harm him, this would constitute a hate crime.

In the upcoming weeks, the lawyers for these two students are going to be able to provide objective evidence that demonstrates they were not capable of committing any sexual offense. This will include receipts and other records demonstrating that they weren't present at the house at the time when the assault was allegedly taking place.

David Finkelhor

If I were to hit my wife, no one would have trouble seeing that as an assault or a criminal act. When a child does the same thing to a sibling, the exact same act will be construed as a squabble, a fight or an altercation.

In a murder, you have a dead body. In an assault or robbery, you have a witness and a complainant. But in an arson, you first have to prove it was arson. Second, you have to prove that a specific person did it.