Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have heard of local authorities without a single engineer.

I have heard it being talked about, ... My understanding is its to make things run more efficiently, to give me the authority to do my job.

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

If the health authority can't handle the call, it shouldn't stop there,

If someone got terminated from my company tomorrow, it would be easy for me to revoke your rights to the presentations and documents that are spinning on their notebook computer. Once documents get out and you don't have a tie back to licensing authority how do you make those documents disappear?

Carlos Queiroz

He went to make a statement as was planned. Based on those statements, the authorities are going to reach fair and correct conclusions,

He has been transferred by the authorities in Belgrade. We believe he's a Bosnian Serb.

He is an extremely well-liked, well-respected, model inmate in the system by the authorities as well as by the inmates. Some of the inmates have come to sympathize with him because of his special restrictions.

Ray Nagin

He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving, ... And he's getting some stuff done. They ought to give that guy - if they don't want to give it to me - give him full authority to get the job done, and we can save some people.

Gilles Duceppe

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no longer has their trust?

Whatever Beverage said, the governor's office was not involved in this. Beverage was not speaking on the authority of the governor.

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

The people should have the authority to change the laws.

Al Gore

No controlling legal authority

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Ahmed Chalabi

meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

My job is to keep people out of court. If there is a (medical) decision with no authority, you go to the courts.

One benefit of the law is that it gives schools the authority to do things they've wanted to do for a long time but couldn't.

Geronimo

Of course not, but the authorities decided it that way, and they are the ones that rule.

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain, ... (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

Newt Gingrich

No Palestinian official should talk about or threaten bloodshed, but yet it is a routine pattern in this region for the Palestinian Authority to, in effect, incite violence,

Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them-the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Needless to say, we are relieved to know that your local authorities treat such crimes with the seriousness that they deserve.

The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.

Gore Vidal

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

We need to move forward, and I think the faster we can have an Iraqi authority in charge of things, the better we can improve the situation,

Bill Cosby

Some authority on parenting once said, ""Hold them very close and then let them go."" This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

Some of my constituents have told me to not to restrict it to commuter hours, but I suspect the opposition from the authority would be even more intense.

Signs are a symbol of authority. They tell you when to go, what to do. No one really questions them. For an artist, it's totally interesting.

Sherrod Brown

since Congress passed President Bush's trade promotion authority three years ago, we have lost one-sixth of our manufacturing jobs.

Since 1995, Governor Pataki has said he wanted the Port Authority to return to its core mission of transportation,