Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a further attempt by the Brooklyn district attorney's office to besmirch Lou's excellent reputation and to discredit an otherwise outstanding and remarkable police career, ... With Lou's career, there is nothing to ever run from.

This is a desperate attempt to remake their faltering image.

This is a deliberate attempt by high level members of organized crime to make a lot of money,

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th century, never mind the 21st century,

This has been a very demanding time for everybody involved, whether it?s the people on boats attempting to do a rescue or the family members whom I?m sure are totally in shock and don?t want to believe this has happened to their loved ones.

They (the guidelines) are designed as a desperate attempt to fend off real regulation of drug ads.

All of our attempts to reach out to people and get people to move on this have fallen on deaf ears. We're frustrated.

A lot of people were going on about suicide attempts but this wasn't one. You couldn't have done it if you had tried.

They make attempts to identify serial offenders and keep them out. These types of people are not wanted at cricket matches. If there's a cost-effective method of keeping them out, we'll certainly look into it.

You would think that Halloween is tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public.

You're getting a relief rally in bonds ... and that's giving you what looks like at an attempt at a rally in stocks, despite the bad news out of Microsoft with the delay of its product. The GM news is also a minor positive.

Your committees need to reject this desperate attempt to revive this barely effective drug.

This is a shocking attempt on the life of a respected human rights defender and champion of the rule of law.

Ariel Sharon

This is a serious event, an attempt by the Hezbollah to escalate and ignite the northern frontier.

Dwight Schultz

This is a scientist, but he wasn't making an inquiry. This was an attempt to debunk. But why debunk something that is so patently stupid?

Fausto Bertinotti

This is an unacceptable proposal ... He (Berlusconi) is now trying to dodge the outcome and attempting to put pressure on the majority.

Brian Sewell

This is another example of meritless gigantism that could be anywhere, and is the least successful of the gallery's six attempts to exploit its most unsympathetic space.

This is an orchestrated political response and an attempt to gain as much political mileage out of this shooting as they possibly can get,

They endured life-threatening ... conditions and executed an extremely difficult and dangerous rescue mission ... It took courage and heroism for people to conclude that they would make the effort and attempt that rescue mission.

Alejandro Toledo

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

Karen Smith

They are attempting to bury the Orchard Drive issue at No. 42 on the township priority list. This would put the solution to the safety issues several years into the future at best.

This meeting was an attempt to do the people's work. We are hereby calling for another meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m.

There was some type of explosion either heard or felt by the miners attempting to go in the mine for a shift change. They then backtracked out of the mine.

Brandon Phillips

There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

There was no resistance, no attempt to flee or anything like that. It was a very, I hate to use the word, it was a very routine investigation and arrest. Just so happens that he's someone who is of some prominence and so everyone is making a big deal of it.

There was no attempt to determine who was accountable on the 9/11 Commission. This time, there's got to be accountability. If you're an elected official, you should be inviting accountability for yourself.

There was no attempt by IDOT to drag this case out.

There were no poisons made. There seemed to be a pathetic, clumsy, amateurish attempt to make some by a man who was conceded by all to be a difficult, anti-social loner.

There were attempts to improve the work conditions of the police, but the corruption continued as in other administrations.

Warren Rudman

The Republicans are very sensitive to the idea that the Democrats are attempting to embarrass the White House, even when there's a legitimate issue to look into.

Edward Kennedy

The Republican proposals of finding of facts are really not the findings of fact, they are findings of fiction, ... It's a desperate attempt to further embarrass the president of the United States and it's an attempt to save their own political position.

There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article.