Famous Quotes & Sayings

The White House asserted unfounded privileges that were later rejected in court, ... White House officials also conducted inadequate searches for documents and failed to make timely production of documents, including relevant e-mails.

Ruth Ginsburg

This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.

The young players coming up in our team are really remarkable. That's one thing I hope people will remember about this year for this team: That we gave several young players a chance to take ownership and assert their place for the United States. ... I realize everybody has an opinion, and a lot of those opinions favored Cammi. But that's part of my job.

Kofi Annan

This is where it all began, ... This is where people first came together and said, 'We have to stand up and assert our independence, our uniqueness, our freedom and our dignity.'

A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.

We would assert it mitigates the charge to heat of passion,

Douglas Coupland

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

Jim Calhoun

Rudy needs to be more assertive. He's an incredibly talented kid, but he's a young kid. Today he was assertive and made his moves. At times today he was unstoppable.

It was the only way the central authorities could assert leverage over the vested interests within the provinces and state-owned industries.

John Charles Polanyi

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Willie Wilson

There was a challenge issued between regulation and overtime and he felt like he (Williams) had something to prove. Marshall tried taking (Almond) away from the offense and Lorenzo asserted himself offensively.

There's no question in my mind that once we make the networks less secure because of CALEA, we will exploit that lack of security to intercept communications under every legal authority asserted by the government.

It's his assertion he was not driving at all in a careless or reckless manner. I don't believe that the way he was driving was the cause of the separation of the chipper.

Sathya Baba

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.

The issues aren't new, the claim isn't new, ... The assertion at the core of this is groundless and unsubstantiated by the science.

Jack Anderson

Their guards surprised us a little bit. We expected their guards to be the weak part of their team. But they came out and played strong. Their big guys came out and played strong, too. They asserted their size.

They've never before explicitly asserted that they need the authority to treat prisoners inhumanely. We can't think of any country in the world that has.

Brian Greene

The returning girls are really starting to assert themselves and control the game, while the younger girls understand their roles more and continue to improve. This team is improving game by game and is ready for league play to begin.

The second half was better than first half. We were down by as many as 20 points. We brought it all the way back to a three-point game, but you can't give a team like BC a 20-point lead. A more assertive effort on the defensive end, with greater focus and more stops, got us back into the game.

I want to make it clear that really the hope is that we never have to use them, but we thought that because the union took an assertive measure during mediation ... we needed to do the same.

Once she starts asserting dominance, males have to make a choice to submit to the new female or risk being attacked by the new female.

The FDA is asserting power to ban this industry,

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

I'm very concerned and frankly bothered by the flow of information or lack thereof that has occurred in the past months. I don't enjoy the assertion that this council as a body, or individual members, are not being cooperative and causing delay.

Indeed, Netscape's continued success in distributing millions of copies of Navigator over the Web belies any assertion that this distribution channel has in any sense been foreclosed to Netscape.

Rabindranath Tagore

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c

Ian Kinsler

I try to perform at the highest level every spring. It's a chance to prove yourself in front of the office and a chance to assert yourself in front of coaches with every club. This year is no different.

Jon Flanagan

Classical did an excellent job. They were more assertive on offense then we were. I was happy that our team played hard to the end. But, we have to do a better job on defense. We picked up a lot of fouls because we weren't moving our feet.

But while it's possible to imagine tasteless jokes that ridicule human suffering, it's equally possible to imagine jokes that express outrage, assert a will to endure, or challenge dominant or majority thinking.

Jonathan Ames

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.

If you're an acquiescent, quiet management type who is not making any kind of assertive position on the company, then you're going to be a liability, ... The buzz is what can save you.

Craig Smith

I just knew that I've got to be a little more patient and it will come. In the second half, I wanted to assert myself. We want to make a statement. Going 0-3, every game now is important for us.