Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we are able to conduct it by mail, there would be no polling locations. Running parallel elections, one in the mail and one at the polls, is very expensive.

He is a walking library. He used to conduct four-hour seminars, and you would feel like you have been there 15 minutes.

Richard Boucher

Ms Tanaka said she understood the need for the United States to pursue this area, to conduct the research,

Mountain Creek is not financially liable for the conduct of our patrons.

One would expect them to be respectful of United Nations standards in their conduct at home.

She's endangering the safety of the child. The standard would be that she engages in reckless conduct on a regular basis, and therefore she is an unfit parent.

Joshua Bell

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Ross Perot

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?

Short-term suspensions for egregious conduct create a serious problem. It sends the wrong message to officers.

She wasn't afraid. She was a participant. Her conduct before, during and after tells you she was.

Zubin Mehta

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

When designing Guestroom 2010, HFTP will conduct an exhaustive global search for the industry's cutting-edge and future technology. Our intent is for Guestroom 2010 to be an important reference for the industry and the possibility exists that we will take the display to other venues.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

We are not going to use oil as political leverage in conducting our foreign policy.

When the police finish their investigation and present those facts to the student conduct board, it will determine at that time whether to proceed with a formal hearing on the allegations.

Tim Walberg

Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.'

The (DENR) is conducting an in-depth probe into the incident to determine any culpabilities and violations of the law, ... Our people on the ground will try to save lives and prevent the loss of more (lives) in this gold-rush area.

The delays were a combination of trying to get rights-of-entry from the property owners so environmental consultants could go on their properties and conduct studies.

Anna Netrebko

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.

Damien Chazelle

There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.

Steven Hatfill

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.

Tom Daschle

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Dikembe Mutombo

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

Jakaya Kikwete

We need to conduct a public debate on this issue.

Barack Obama

When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A short-term temporary solution has turned into a long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line.

We will move all of our striking teams to residential areas. They will no longer conduct offensive operations to seek and destroy GAM,

We will conduct a thorough investigation just as we would with any other complaint.

When she said she would no longer be our conductor we were lost.

George Szell

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

We're treating it as a student conduct incident.