Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Pierce

Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign.

Elliott Abrams

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.

Marcia Gay Harden

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

As long as there is no natural disaster, global barley supplies should be enough for global demand.

As long as the prospect of sanctioning 4 million barrels per day of Iranian oil is out there, the Iranian situation, in our view, will be the front and center issue that will command market attention.

As long as he keeps making his car continually fast, continues to win races, he raises the bar that the rest of us have to go chase.

Jeff Kent

That's not an excuse. Me and Barry fought all the time and we went to the World Series.

Phil Donahue

That opening bar summoned children all over the world to the television set. Its purity is its strength.

We will be turning this barren site into a phenomenal building site. This will have a positive impact for Milwaukee.

We will be selling our CDs and T-shirts at bargain prices too, so here's your last chance to get something while you can. We really want this show to be something people remember for a long time.

Paul Tagliabue

We have a collective bargaining extension in place, long-term television contracts, and have undertaken many other strong elements in league and club operations. I am honored to have been commissioner since late 1989 and to have been heavily involved with the league, its owners, clubs, coaches, players, fans and media since 1969.

We had to figure out where we go from here with 160 bottles of champagne and bars of chocolate, which I hope are being refrigerated.

We had three strong events today. We looked good on vault, bars and beam. On floor, the training caught up to us. Our legs weren't there. I am extremely proud of the way we competed out of the blocks to start the season. We still have a long way to go. We watered down some routines as far as difficulty and skill.

Those shareholders wanted it to go through because they realized Washington Mutual is getting a great bargain and they will benefit from the unfair price,

David Gregory

This was basically a vote of no confidence for Roger Toussaint. It undermines his credibility back at the bargaining table.

this union will have to regroup and demand that the 22 jobs be part of any new collective bargaining agreement.

What's different about this club, when you have this many setbacks, it's usually part of why you don't win or you barely squeeze by in the last week of the season with a good but not great record. To have this kind of run and play this quality of baseball for this long is why this club deserves a very different kind of credit.

What is in a barrel will not go sour.

Tony Blair

What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community,

We fully supported his position to play in the WBC. He had a change of heart, and it's an individual decision. On one level, we'd all like to have Barry play. It's a great showcase, but there's an understanding of his point of view as well.

We have about 16 stand-alone stores in Japan selling the Barbie clothes that are geared towards adults and we hope to expand to 20 stores by the end of the year.

Claude Mandil

We have 4 billion barrels in strategic stocks.

We want to create a bar of excellence (in the music program). That is what separates a university from a conservatory.

Through the fish eyed lenseof tear stained eyes, i can barely define the shape of this moment in time

It wouldn't be unfair to say that not only is the horse out of the barn but Finance has no idea where the horse has gone.

Richard Land

It would not bar women from being pastors,

I used to naively believe that heavily regulated industries - airlines, insurance, etc. - would show above-average rates of return due to barriers to entry and, therefore, reduced competition. Clearly that is not the case.

Things are still tight with no extra for essentials, just the bare minimum.

Jeff Kent

Things are happening for Barry right now and nobody else needs to be included.

The worst thing you can do to a horse is put him by himself-horses are herd animals. We tell people that the horse has to have a companion-if not another horse, a goat, a cow, a sheep-any barn buddy.

Jerry Hollendorfer

The winner is very impressive and a very great-looking horse that we thought would win if we didn't. I didn't expect to run third, but he did gallop out well after the race and came back to the barn in very good shape.

The way golf has changed, my game still works. There's just barely enough skill left in the game where I can still play.