Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

We need to get clarity about who is in charge of the government: three branches or one.

The Great American Cleanup allows us to branch out from the Adopt-A-Street program to other communities and schools. It also gives us an opportunity to visit schools and teach about litter prevention and recycling.

Tom Lantos

to develop a complete picture of the decision-making that led the United States to go to war. ... And the Executive Branch owes it to the American people to make certain that their elected representatives are fully informed.

You are the tree; Your branches have blossomed forth. From the very small and subtle, You have become huge and manifest.

We once had a server in a branch but we pulled it out. You have to keep things very simple at the branch level, as it's just not humanly possible to manage multiple branches individually.

Robert Fortune

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

We don't need to spend a lot of money to make the point that we are able to exist outside of the PC. We've been in all those markets for many years...we don't have to convince the world that we can successfully branch out.

We've had a lot of branches falling, ... We could hear them falling on the roof.

Paul Cayard

The race is a fantastic experience. I decided this whole thing about being a pirate and promoting a film is a great opportunity for our sport to branch out.

John Knowles

We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation.

When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.

We would like to expand our branch operations on a wholly owned basis. We're in constant dialogue with the insurance regulator, and I hope to visit him very soon in Beijing.

There has been a lot of movement of people of one sect or another into certain branches of the military or the police. We've tried, but it's hard to integrate them. But I don't see that there's any mood to integrate at this point.

Michael Hayden

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

People are not looking at the facts. We have no aspirations to have our own branch in our stores. We've said publicly that we have no intent to branch. We're heading the other way.

Oversight is an ongoing process by which Congress keeps an eye on the executive branch agencies. That is not what I see happening.

Mike Gravel

Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

Melbourne will become a branch office of Sydney.

I think they are paying a very expensive price for the bank. They are paying US$35mn per branch. The cost of building a branch shouldn't be more than US$1mn.

Such cooperation also exists between the judicial branches of the two countries, which has contributed to the growth of bilateral ties,

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fall before the first frost--so goes the tale of winter branches and old bones.

Lobbying is like the fourth branch of government. It's a very powerful part of our government and our democracy.

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Christopher Dodd

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Chuck Schumer

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

Ludwig von Mises

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Hilda Solis

Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

John B. S. Haldane

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.