Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Speier

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

Mark Warner

I will not tolerate any assault on the health, safety and welfare of Virginia's citizens or the environment, and I insist on compliance with environmental laws and regulations. This matter must be brought to a swift and responsible conclusion ... The bottom line is that you need to either fully comply with environmental laws and regulations or shut down.

Bob Hawke

It is an assault upon the very core of what generations of our citizens have been proud to boast of, at home and abroad, as the essence of the Australian character -- the

yet another dastardly assault on an innocent humanitarian worker.

Bryan Singer

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

With the assault on labor right now, it was important for us to be out with all the unions.

Steve Buyer

The president's premeditated assault on the administration of justice must be interpreted as a threat to our system of government.

This shows that sexual assault does happen here.

This was a premeditated, calculated assault at Heritage High School, ... He knew right from wrong. He knew what he was doing. He is not mentally ill.

This unprecedented assault on the work of human rights groups will invariably undermine the rights of all Russians.

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.

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.

Bill Thomas

Each and every one of those young men who were present at this party categorically deny that any assault of any description took place. The entire Duke lacrosse team looks forward to the results of the DNA test in order to clear their names.

The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist and second by public officials.

At the bus stop at William Avenue and Main Street, the male approached the bus driver, and physically assaulted him, resulting in the driver's glasses being broken.

At this point, the reason for the assault remains under investigation. Our victim tells us he knew his assailant only as someone he had seen around the city.

At the time he took the knife away from her, the assault was over his minor assault was over,

Marcia Wallace

Doctors are not seeing people at their best. They're seeing frightened people, confused people, and overwhelmed people. If there's ever a time you need to have someone with you when you are being assaulted by the language of your disease and all the feelings that go with it, it's in the doctor's office.

CPJ is alarmed by the authorities' latest attempt to intimidate EFJA leaders. This is an intolerable assault on a press freedom organization whose right to operate has been upheld twice by the federal court.

CPJ is alarmed by the authorities' latest attempt to intimidate EFJA leaders, ... This is an intolerable assault on a press freedom organization whose right to operate has been upheld twice by the federal court.

Dennis Hastert

Today's ruling by a federal judge who sits in the 9th Circuit is yet another assault on American principles. The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights,

We expect relatively good earnings this week, as we saw from Motorola yesterday. We expect a favorable producer price index report this week. And it looks as though we could make an assault on 8,000 relatively soon.

Gloria Allred

We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King,

Carolyn Maloney

Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect their privacy, not compromise it.

Mike Quigley

When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.

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

Joel Salatin

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.

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.

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

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.

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.