Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

The FDA is asserting power to ban this industry,

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

I'm not at liberty to talk about it, ... At the end of the day there will be no merit behind that, too. The fact is I'm not in a position to talk about those things, but someone will assert that's why I'm leaving town. There's no truth to that.

Congress must assert its proper role and seek the truth. A government that fails to honor its own laws is a government that fails its people. With the proper oversight and action, Congress can help restore the constitutional system of checks and balances.

The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and make a move when they see something unethical. Thailand has had enough lessons in this.

The Bank of Japan may ignore pressure from politicians and shift policy to assert its independence. The yen may see brief buying if the BOJ changes policy today, but it won't last long. The bias is for a weaker yen.

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.

Donald Peterson

It's a reality. It's going to be used in the office. ... I don't believe it will be a large enterprise solution, and I don't believe that Microsoft has asserted that they know how to get there.

I told them to assert themselves and be aggressive.

It's true that a settlement was reached with the taxation office and the settlement was not, as asserted in the report, for 150 million,

John Taylor

For example, they show... that the president didn't know about the Watergate break-in, as he always asserted (and) that throughout the second half of 1972 he repeatedly urged his aides not to cover up Watergate, as he always asserted.

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.

That's a controversial assertion that I'll stand by.

Joe Johnson

That just wasn't Jim Haslam. He was always willing to offer an opinion but never forcing you to do something or asserting a given opinion. He knew where that line was and stayed on the right side of it.

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.'

If you don't assert rights, you don't have them. It's easy to go pay the money and think that it's over, but it's not.

If you don't assert rights, you don't have them,

Kristanna Loken

In the whole period of making the film, I carried myself more aggressively and was much more assertive than I normally would be. It took me a while to decompress after the film ended, to step back and say I didn't need to be this strong and have this kind of mentality any more.

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.

Bryan Cranston

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

Alcee Hastings

I don't think that we could be any more forceful in asserting that the election did not meet international standards.

Albert Speer

I assert that a great number of the foreign workers in our country did their work quite voluntarily once they had come to Germany.

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.