Famous Quotes & Sayings

In due course, a disciplinary commission will be set up. (It) can work after the Games and look at issues that happened at Games time.

John Barnes

I'm not sure of the next steps, but we need to go back to the commission staff. We're down to a handful of issues.

Kofi Annan

I'm confident that next year they will be able to get onto the commission and this situation will be corrected, ... I think they should work towards next year rather than wanting to punish the membership at large.

In recent years, China-Singapore relations have maintained a good momentum of development thanks to the frequent visits between leaders of the two countries and the establishment of a joint commission at the vice premier level.

I just think the County Commission needs to suck it up. We're doing our part. At some point, you have to stop talking about it.

I hope Dr. Rice will reconsider and come before our commission for the sake of the American people.

At this time, we've received no indication whatsoever from the Transportation Funding and Reform Commission that increasing fares and cutting service are unavoidable. But those are always options that we must consider.

That's an incomplete study. We did commission that. When we completed it, the insurance industry itself told us the information was wrong.

What happens in the states too often is that when the ethics commission oversees the Legislature, and the Legislature gets mad at them, they cut their budget.

The gaming commission would look long and hard. We think it would be hard to get licensed.

The effort to indict Saddam Hussein as a war criminal is now getting under way, and we are using our diplomacy to try to support the establishment of a war crimes commission on Iraq,

The indications we have from the European Commission lead us to think the offer won't be accepted,

A global threat needs a global response. The European Commission will play an important role in that respect. We have to take the health and economic impact into account.

This is more than enough grounds to implement and commission the investigation.

This has provided a great foundation for where the A&P Commission needs to focus its efforts in the short term and in the long term as well.

George H. W. Bush

the Iraqi Election Commission has scheduled elections in January, and I would hope they'd go forward in January.

Nelson Mandela

I am accusing the truth commission of being abused and not performing the task which it was supposed to perform,

Anthony Principi

I am proud of the recommendations the commission submitted to the president, ... We reached our decisions through an open, fair, non-partisan process.

Sebastian Coe

I am particularly delighted that so many of the members of the evaluation commission are on this team. They already have a great insight about our plans, aspirations and visions.

Haley Barbour

I don't want to stake out a position until I at least give the Gaming Commission the courtesy of hearing what their recommendations are,

He's in good position to backchannel with the Senate, being vice-chairman of the Commission on Appointments and head of the house CA panel.

I can confirm that the European Commission has received the complaints and will examine them carefully.

Iceland will also now be able to vote in the commission as part of the pro-whaling bloc, which will make the conservation-minded nations' task all the more difficult,

There had to be a different way of recognising and paying commissions, and now the life companies will be taking the risk of policy continuation by funding commission streams,

It looks like the Competition Commission wanted to show it's not a toothless institution, and took a big bite.

William McDonough

It was an easy dunk for the commission to decide that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy (Gordon English) were just way off base,

I've always been concerned about this dangerously cozy relationship between the joint commission and the hospital industry generally, and the individual hospitals that it looks at,

Thanks to the generous support from donors, including the European Commission and EU member states, at the moment we have commitments for about 50 percent of our needs through to December.

The European Commission must either reject the funding for such projects or demand major modifications.

The European Commission is extremely pleased with what is happening.

The European Commission can't say anything about the details of the whole operation before it has been notified of it. If the Commission is notified, it will examine most painstakingly ... whether it complies with the rules of the internal market, whether rules are scrupulously observed.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

David Rose

The Kingdom, under the direction of Supreme Commission of Tourism and its Secretary General Prince Sultan ibn Salman, is soon launching a new initiative to focus on the country's diverse cultural and geographical attractions.