Famous Quotes & Sayings

I want the court to realize we wouldn't have gotten this far without the committee. It wasn't until I publicly admonished the Waxahachie council in their own meeting that some of them showed up to our meetings. I've worked over 150 hours on this committee. I didn't do this to get my name on a plaque but I did this to get the county somewhere.

John Gray

It will mean that they will have an indication of what the council and our partners will do to help them to better, healthy, longer and possibly wealthier lives than possibly they have at present.

The residents council stands opposed to this project.

The time has now come for the Security Council to act. Iran has still not come clean.

Kofi Annan

This is a victory for all those who expressed their firm determination that U.N. Security Council resolutions must be respected. It is a victory for diplomacy and resolve,

John Bolton

I hoped we'd be finished with the establishment of the human rights council before the end of this year,

Paul Weller

In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.

Jeremy Corbyn

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.

Kofi Annan

I think no one in the council is pushing for use of force in the first instance,

If the president wants a council that serves as a public seminar in moral philosophy, indeed, that is what he got.

I don't think that council can help but be influenced to some degree by what they heard. People feel very strongly about the issue.

Celso Amorim

I'm very hopeful ... that the panel will be able to have a fresh look at this dossier and enable the Security Council to take the policy decisions,

I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans

I'll have to work with the parish council to see if they want to give you some of this.

You can see we're not trying to operate it as a money-making venture, ... It needs to pay for itself, but the Council did not want to try and recoup 20 years worth of expenses in one year.

The ultimate decision depends on the Security Council, and once it goes to the Security Council it depends on its member states. Any member has the right to put anything on hold,

Javier Solana

This has to be resolved in the Security Council

David Mann

This is a hard time for the city, a hard time for the council and a hard time for the mayor. I'd much rather be mayor when I was than right now.

All eyes are still waiting to see what happens with Iran, and what the outcome will be when the IAEA makes its report to the U.N. Security Council next month.

Dan Gillerman

An informal discussion that was merely a waste of time took place. The Security Council has more important issues to deal with.

Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works.

Amr Moussa

Of course the transfer of power was decided on by the Security Council and we wish them good luck and that the Iraqi government is able to exercise its sovereignty.

Javier Solana

No, what we are doing today is a reflection on what may happen if at the end of the day what is going (on) now in the (U.N.) Security Council does fail.

Carol Bruce

There's been a lot of emotion that we haven't seen in other Town Council elections. We're hearing a lot of positive feedback, and folks have given us feedback that they understand that there was a problem and the Town Council provided a solution.

Tecumseh

As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.

The U.N. Security Council would be hurting the world more than it was hurting Iran if it restricted Iranian oil exports. The United Nations might restrict other Iranian exports or limit Iranian imports of military equipment, but I don't see the U.N. Security Council imposing sanctions on Iranian oil.

The UN Security Council reform is over. There are a lot of losers, there is Africa.

Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

Bill Richardson

The United States reserves the right to oppose any arrangement that does not protect Security Council resolutions and what we perceive to be America's national interest,

This is a major policy shift and I think as a council we need to look at that policy change.

John Lindsay

It relies on that same council to make decisions that would promote integration and that may not be the desires of some of the other districts.

It really was the council putting in the effort that made me think how sensible this all was,

Hans Blix

I told the council that we hope we will have been through the main part of the document -- which is about 3,000 pages -- by Friday.