Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Lesko

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

Matthew Lesko

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

Matt Ridley

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible that anybody ever thinks otherwise. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.

Maya MacGuineas

If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country will never notice whether we pass a budget resolution or not.

Maynard James Keenan

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Maya Angelou

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

Maya Angelou

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

Maya Angelou

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

Maya Angelou

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

Maya Angelou

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

Maya Angelou

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

Jacques Diouf

Developed countries thought that this was going on in Asia, that it was far away and that we were exaggerating the risks of the epidemic.

Despite initial interest, other countries have run away with the market for wind turbines.

Detainees can leave the country if they so choose.

destroys those missiles that could have shielded our country for another 15 years.

Rick Carlisle

Anthony Johnson is a guy you can count on.

Any move could be counter productive for OPEC, ... They need strong economies to maintain demand.

Joe Walsh

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Robert Hormats

Any country that seems to have a slightly overvalued currency gets whacked by speculators. People go after the ones they think will be the weakest.

Tom Riley

Any country that embarks on policies that encourage drug use will get more drug use and more drug addiction.

Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer.

Any country in the first two weeks, they are always criticized.

Rodrigo Rato

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

Bob Dylan

And the country I die for, has God on its side

Kofi Annan

an opportunity to elect a president to lead the country into a new era of peace, democracy and prosperity.

are going to be Japan and the United Kingdom, America's No. 1 and No. 2 largest overseas markets, respectively. An in-country presence will also be established in Brazil, which is our largest South American market. And in subsequent years the program will expand to Germany and perhaps to several other countries as well.

Brad Sherman

Apparently, logic doesn't count when a powerful Republican is involved,

Any time a country threatens to cut off oil supplies, the people in New York say, 'Golly, that'll happen,' and the price of oil goes up. They have a little leverage with their oil production. But if you cut off oil exports, you cut off your foreign exchange earnings.

Anything that happens in any part of the country can happen in New York,

John Gibbons

Any time he goes out there, you know you can count on him, ... If you look at the last couple of years, he's always won for us but he's been kind of the odd man out, but he forces his way in there and knows how to win.

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Any rubber stamping of this new nomination would be a disservice would be a disservice to the country.

As far as we know it is counted per IP address, per day, to prevent hiking up numbers. If they download the same file twice daily for a week, it would count seven times (as far as I know).