Famous Quotes & Sayings

At least at Duke, you can't get away from this case. It's all people talk about. If your coping strategy for dealing with your assault is to not think about it, that's not an option here.

Pamelyn Ferdin

This is a scary path for all Americans. Here is a government, a feckless federal government, who spent millions of taxpayer dollars to wage an assault on all our constitutional rights.

This is a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government.

This is a radical assault on the separation of powers. I can't imagine this House going for it.

This is not an economic strategy for Australia. This is just a major assault on workers' rights and it's a huge boost for big business.

The unprovoked attack on Denis Bradley cannot under any circumstance be defended politically or otherwise as anything other than a vicious assault on a man who had taken his son to watch a football match.

John Walsh

These males go in, brandishing a weapon. Not just a handgun like we've seen commonly, but in this case more like an assault weapon.

The secretary general condemns these attacks which represent an unacceptable assault upon the peace process and urges all concerned parties to work together in a spirit of national unity and reconciliation.

Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.

Jesse Jackson

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Mitt Romney

I supported the assault weapon ban.

Mitt Romney

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

Data on assault weapon risks are not needed because they have no redeeming social value.

The officers were pulled into the crowd and several people attacked or assaulted officers by punching them.

The officers were concerned because of the numbers and because of the history that they knew they had assaulted some individuals related to different music clubs.

The continued low-priced, high-volume assault on the U.S. market by Chinese activated carbon is destroying the profitability of the domestic industry, despite its best efforts to reduce costs and maintain pricing and profits.

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

Everybody loves to bet on baseball and to weigh in on the big issues and stories of the day, and there's no bigger story right now than Bonds' assault on the home run record. There's no sitting on the fence when it comes to Bonds. People either think he's a great player and deserves to break the record or they think he's a cheater and want him suspended from the sport, there's no middle ground.

Michael Moriarty

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

It is time for the Department of Justice to be accountable for refusing to do everything it can to protect sexual assault survivors from unintended pregnancy.

It's a day to think about prevention of sexual assault and to provide support to survivors of sexual assault. It's our chance to educate the public about the problem of sexual assault in our community.

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.

Julie Andrews

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

Michael Nutter

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Gov. Blagojevich is working to improve health care and education and to pass a jobs bill and assault weapons ban. Silly, negative distortions from a desperate campaign are sad and irrelevant.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments.

I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the 'No More' symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car.

The first time I realized it was a problem I was walking through the HUB and there was a map where people could write down where they had been sexually assaulted on or near campus. There were marks everywhere.

Enrico Caruso

The euro is being assaulted on all fronts,

The gun lobby's leaders said today in Springfield that banning assault weapons would injure Illinois economically to the tune of $150 million and cost the state 750 jobs. Are Illinois residents really buying $150 million a year worth of assault weapons? If so, I urge the Legislature to move as quickly as possible on this proposal, because we have a bigger problem than we realized.

All that I was and the woman I was becoming was savagely thrown away by three men. Three men that brutally assaulted me, not only with their bodies, but with foreign objects also.

Dick Cheney

the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.

Gary Bauer

The current administration has promoted numerous measures that intrude upon the privacy of ordinary Americans. Few if any Americans want their health records on the Internet or their bank records reviewed by bureaucrats or sold to businesses. I oppose government intrusions that assault the Constitution and violate individual rights.