Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Thompson

The grand jury indictment being released today details a systematic and calculated plan to damage our country's national security, ... Regan is charged with attempts to sell our intelligence agency's most valuable secrets for the purpose of enriching himself.

Ahmed Zewail

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Ben Mezrich

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Charles Schumer

While this nomination did not warrant an attempt to block the nominee on the floor of the Senate, the next one might.

You are seeing a little bit of rebound in some of the worst-hit sectors. It's clearly a short-term attempt at trying to find some stabilizing level.

Service is an integral part of our school community. Students are involved in countless programs during the school year. This is our attempt to continue that commitment through the summer.

Ralph Goodale

Around the table there was complete recognition of the issue that we were attempting to deal with and a very strong measure of support, and no one expressed opposition,

George Washington

A peace establishment ought always to have two objects in view; the one, present security of posts and of stores, and the public tranquillity; the other, to be prepared, if the latter is impracticable, to resist with efficacy the sudden attempts of a

The labor market is quickly getting to the point where we will see upward pressure on wages, as employers attempt to attract more workers and retain the ones they have.

The Fed's problem is that the fed funds rate itself has very little effect on the economy. We continue to see movements in financial markets that basically officiate the Fed's attempt to slow things down.

There was an attempt to have them released, but the engine of their boat conked out on their way back to Sabah (East Malaysia).

Kate Kelly

The sentencing court never considered the expression of remorse of the defendant, never considered her attempts to help herself and never considered her rehabilitation efforts.

The severe impact of the disaster has placed a profound stress on government at all levels, not to mention that of the individuals and businesses attempting to recover. We're going to have to use limited resources wisely.

Gerry Adams

This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,

This is just the latest attempt to put a dent in the execution industry and it will take a while to play itself out.

This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.

This is in no way an attempt to usurp the judges' power. We're merely coming back to the table on sentencing.

Bill Gates

This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.

Once again, I believe that Netscape either is attempting to rewrite history or deliberately misled me and my colleagues during our June 1995 discussions.

George Lucas

After that only the VHS and DVD copies that people have purchased will be left, ... That's not a problem, as each VHS copy has been encrypted to write commands to any VCR that tries to play them after a certain date to erase the tape. Any dubbed copies of these VHS tapes also contain the encryption. DVD copies of movies were easier to protect. After the same date, the DVDs simply won't play, and will come out as digital gibberish if people attempt to copy them after that date.

It's really their last attempt to try to give a frame to this choice that the public can grasp. It's one of the things that's been difficult for each of them in this campaign, to really frame the choice that the public's going to make in a compelling way, ... This debate gives each side the opportunity to really try to frame for the public what the election's about, and to give the public a better sense of what they're about.

Shinzo Abe

Its regrettable that the company attempted to illegally export equipment to China that can be used for transporting weapons of mass destruction. I expect a full picture will be revealed through the further investigation.

Any attempt to strengthen the surveillance worldwide for H5N1 is a good plan.

Ivan Illich

Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth story up.

Kofi Annan

any attempt to harm him or other leaders is counterproductive.

Any attempt to forecast what skills will be needed 10 years from now is just folly. If 10 years ago someone told you financial analysts were a job that was going to be exposed to intense global competition, a lot of people probably would not believe it but that definitely seems to be a possibility today.

Any attempt to correlate their political contributions to policy is patently false on its face.

Any attempts to turn back the clock such as this one are out of step with the values of the majority of Americans.

John Taylor

Indeed, all existing evidence demonstrates that he was shocked and surprised that it had occurred and spent weeks, if not months, attempting to find out why,

Incumbent administrations shamelessly attempt to massage the economy so voters will keep them in power,

Joey Skaggs

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.