Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it.

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

I will do everything in my personal power to see this county does not lose funding, and that our housing authority becomes more stable. I expect to be clear about what we need to do to clean up the matter as far as what HUD wants to see.

John Cullum

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.

Steve Landes

I think it's ridiculous that we've set up a separate authority and a stream of separate, dedicated funding and given them the bonding authority and these kinds of things - because basically the taxpayers shouldn't be responsible for funding a private-sector entity like that, especially in professional sports, where they make tons of money.

Steve Spurrier

I think today gave him a little more confidence. He threw the ball with authority most of the day.

Sol Campbell

It is now being dealt with by the authorities.

Frank Dobson

It is one of the growing products of the fact the Prime Minister is going and his authority isn't as strong as it used to be.

It is important that local and national authorities within other countries in the region remain vigilant for possible outbreaks of suspected avian influenza in poultry and other birds. It is vital that all instances of multiple bird deaths are reported to authorities and investigated promptly.

It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.

Jeff Daly

It is just becoming beyond the reach of working singles and many families with children. ... We're happy to get the big Bed, Beth and Beyond and Sports Authority and Wal-Mart, but where will the people who work there live?

Khalil Greene

I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, ... Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port issues were front and center during our administration.

Dan White

It does create some administrative matters for the election authority in setting up these booths and getting staffing for them.

George Clooney

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

It is extremely regrettable. We hope investigation authorities will conduct a thorough probe.

I don't have any authority, but it's like the younger kids on the team think I do. I guess it's because I've been around so long.

I don't know who Mr Des Smith is. He doesn't speak with any authority for the Government at all.

Stephen Harper

I don't believe this government has the moral authority to govern.

I came to the conclusion that under the current circumstances, it would be in the best interest of the Housing Authority if I left at this point.

I am in charge and all our civilian authorities are in charge, and my relation with General Mladic has improved and of course General Mladic sometimes looks defiant, but he is not defiant -- only he has to be concerned about our safety. Everything goes really well, all of my orders are carried out, and even (my) personal relationship with General Mladic has improved, so there is no threat that there will be disarray in the Serbian republic.

Ronald Reagan

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

John Edwards

I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty member that students come to when they have problems. If they need a swift kick, he'd do that.

has no authority over the statements of that organization.

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.