Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casper Dien

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.

Carol Moseley Braun

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carlo Ratti

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

When we moved from our village, I thought this must be the end of the world for us. I have never seen so much destruction in my lifetime and I pray that nobody else will witness something similar. When my family was given a tent in the camp immediately after we arrived, I was overjoyed that there is finally going to be a roof over our heads.

Dale Jarrett

When we used to drive out of the garage at night and go through the infield, you would make sure the van doors were locked, and your kids weren't looking. Now you see some of the stuff fans are getting to do and the vehicles they are camping in and you want to stop and hang out with them.

Ted Leonsis

We have 20 first-round picks in camp and we will go through growing pains. But it will make the core team of prospects stronger and we won't change our strategy.

We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, ... And the more people get to know about them, they do worse, not better.

The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and principles of the Constitution. One would expect the president to nominate more exceptional judicial conservatives like Judge Roberts for as many vacancies as occur, whether it is two, three, or more.

The reason this vaccination campaign was undertaken was spurious. It was a mirage, there was no threat of smallpox from Iraq. And that remains a powerfully sad coda to this whole episode.

Gary Johnson

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

Gary Johnson

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

Gary Johnson

It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

Greg Berlanti

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

Greg Fitzsimmons

When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days.

Jane Seymour

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

Bill Engvall

If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.

There are a lot of people that will look this winter for summer 2007. So they can tour the camps during this summer, when there's not snow on the ground.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

Bill McKibben

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

Barbara Amiel

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

This will be our campaign office this campaign cycle.

The past four years have been a continuous electoral campaign to sweeten the waters.

The PFP will no longer involve itself in wrangling between the two camps and will care more about middle-of-the-road people and ... heeding the people's needs.

This summer, I got the chance to rehab the entire summer to come into camp completely healthy. That's the difference between this year and last year.

Cody Franson

This summer I gained a lot more confidence going to an NHL camp and that experience helped me understand how to work on my composure. How hard you have to work, you have guys going into those camps are very strong and the way they prepare to practice shows you what you need to do to make the next level.

There is a big lobbying campaign going on. We are consulting with companies and there is a heavy fight between new entrants and incumbents.

We're trying to empty these camps as soon as possible for a whole variety of reasons. The most important is danger.

We sat down in February and said we wanted to do this campaign differently, we wanted to unify the city by looking at people who had common beliefs. We were not going to classify them by party or race; it was thought-based.

We need to discuss further how many days we will camp out at Siam Paragon.

Chandler Riggs

We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.

We've complied with every rule and regulation of the Campaign Finance Board, and we've documented and disclosed every nickel that we've spent — unlike this mayor.

To be on a college campus and understand what its like to live in a dorm for a week gives them a preview for college, so when they go its not such a big surprise to them.

We were told to go to Universal Studios to pick up a camper of a movie and TV star.