Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

Stephen Kinzer

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

John Linder

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

Stephen Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong

Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

I will be working with Senator Menendez to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments.

Koizumi's victory means Japan will now, more than ever, take orders from the United States in its foreign policy -- including keeping troops on in Iraq.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Like most American or foreign players, he understands about half of what I say.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

It hasn't been influenced by me, my colleagues, or foreign government influence,

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

I wouldn't recommend the Foreign Legion for a thinking person, ... because it's going to wear you down.

I would say since the Second World War, it was the most interesting time to be the foreign editor.

Howard Baker

I think it is a great tribute to the Government of Japan and to those who were handling it, including the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister, that we were able to negotiate at the highest levels - I mean the President, the Secretary of State, and then my opportunity - without high emotionalism.

I think it is wrong. I don't think it is safe to work with these foreign companies.

He's had this injury three times before, so it's not too foreign to him. He won't do much for the next week or two, but as soon as he's right he will be back up and playing pretty much straight away.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Sonny Lubick

I don't think we were overconfident. Any time we play a foreign offense like we did, our players know we've got to make some plays and get them in third-and-8 (situations).

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

Lisa Cholodenko

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

If it's a global or regional meltdown, India is not going to be spared, whereas in the past the outstanding level was really small, so foreigners weren't influencing the markets that much.

John Prescott

He was a principled foreign secretary, he was reforming leader of the house and even when he resigned regretfully from the government he did on principle he did it with style and elegance,

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

There is a knee-jerk reaction to this short-term political concern. But should foreign investors realize that this is not for the short term, they may be prompted to sell as well.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.