Famous Quotes & Sayings

A common understanding has been reached. Despite these encouraging steps, it is important to note that the commission will ultimately judge the cooperation of the Syrian authorities on the merits of the information provided and the promptness with which its requests are being accommodated.

This is something the Game Commission has been doing for nearly 30 years. It's the cornerstone of our program, really.

This is the fire commission taking the lead and the town government taking a supporting role.

The unsupervised and undocumented meetings between the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries encouraged by the commission violated the commission's own procedural safeguards as well as general principles of due process.

This degree of violence is completely unacceptable from a parliamentarian, but all the more so when he is the vice-president of a commission that is supposed to promote dialogue with the indigenous communities.

This commission showed far more compassion than one we've seen previously.

Sander Levin

This commission is going to have two-thirds congressional membership. It is going to be up to us to make it work. Give it a chance.

This is a military commission that is literally unbounded by the laws, Constitution and treaties of the United States.

Joseph Stiglitz

I told the commission that offering the two versions of Windows without a price difference was not a level playing field.

Marcus Aurelius

There is often a sin of omission as well as of commission

The report should have legal force. The materials of the parliamentary commission must be passed to the investigative organs.

You wouldn't want that person on the commission at all.

This is going to underscore the sense that we really have not been prepared. Everyone on the commission seems to say that we are safer, but not safe.

This is a tremendous project for Orangeburg County and the state of South Carolina. This is part of strategic initiative our County Council and Development Commission have been working on for years.

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,

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.

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.

Michael Johnston

The Leavenworth County Commission has committed in their own words to making sure the road south of the interchange would be a safe road and they will make the necessary improvements.

The disadvantage is that you have a report that might dribble out, and you don't know what parts will dribble out, and you can get a very distorted view of what the commission actually decided.

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.

The company will do whatever is necessary to move this forward and have something to place before the commission next week.

The commission would ensure that people who confess and return stolen money or other property get conditional amnesty.

The commission would be a conduit to our ultimate goal, which is to get federal funding.

Ernest Hollings

The commission, with this order, has turned the people's public interest commission into an instrument of corporate greed,

The commission will continue until the creation of a council. The proposed new council is a major improvement.