Guaranteed Quotations

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.

If you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.

To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.

When you've got this many people maneuvering, it eliminates the period of governing that used to be guaranteed between elections.

We didn't defend the three-point line at all. We just didn't defend. We came out a little bit like we were guaranteed a win.

Until the human rights of those affected can be guaranteed we recommend that the construction of the dam is halted.

Whether or not the wiretap and warrants were obtained legally are issues any lawyer is going to address so they can strategically prepare to defend their case. Any good lawyer is going to protect the constitutional rights of their client because they are guaranteed a fair trial.

When we first looked at fully guaranteed services, we looked at the price and said 'no way,' ... Fortunately, all of these companies were eager to negotiate a better price.

Universal had all its heavy hitters lined up for summer months. Warner Brothers didn't have anything in the summer that was a guaranteed hit, ... It's as if they saved all their heavy hitters for the top of seventh, or later.

Unfortunately, it's one of those situations where, whatever is recommended, at least 50 percent of people are guaranteed to be upset.

We're generally supportive of efforts to make life easier on legitimate marketers. But I don't know if it's a good precedent to set for Internet service providers to charge per message for guaranteed delivery. That doesn't seem like the best way to handle spam.

With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.

With the new acquisitions, there are a few spots taken already. So mentally, I'm coming into camp like I'm a rookie. I know for a fact I don't have a guaranteed spot, so I'm just coming out, working hard and trying to make the team like everyone else.

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

We thought we'd get guaranteed wins if we bumped D.J. and Derrick up.

We've seen a tremendous response to Desperate Housewives products made available to date, so extending the franchise into the world of fragrance makes perfect sense. Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series.

The fact is Gov. Bush's plan would leave the Social Security Commission only two choices: insolvency in 2023 or a 50% cut in guaranteed benefits.

We regret the use of violence. There is freedom of expression in Congo, as guaranteed by the recently adopted constitution, and part of this is the right demonstrate.

The reason Ben moved was to get the week-in, week-out rugby he could not be guaranteed in Edinburgh, and the wisdom of his move has been demonstrated throughout the season and underlined today.

The provision of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 establishing equal financial aid treatment for all 529 plans is good news for Ohio families with money invested in the Guaranteed Savings Fund. This eliminates a major source of confusion for families saving for college and for financial aid administrators as well.

When you come out to a WWE event, you're guaranteed to get your money's worth.

The plan outlined today is riddled with uncertainty for everyone: for those who are counting on a guaranteed benefit it would bring uncertainty by making Social Security's shortfall worse; for those who might hold a private account, it would bring uncertainty about how the accounts would be funded after the surplus is exhausted,

Shareholders have the guaranteed right to vote on the poison pill now, and on subsequent poison pills for the next 20 years. This is a great victory.

Mo guaranteed me some new players, and a kind of football, more offensive. He didn't guarantee me victory, but to try, it was very important to me.

Media Watch has been told that both programs actually have a list of tried and true stories that are guaranteed to rate.

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

My god, I'm not really doing it for that. I don't think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's like, how many have there been? We get it! It was grim! Move on! No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust? Guaranteed Oscar. I've been nominated for four. Never won!

Nothing in life is guaranteed and I've been preaching that from Day 1. We're here this year but we can finish last next year.

Nothing in life is guaranteed and I've been preaching that from Day 1, ... We're here this year but we can finish last next year.

Return on equity is not a guaranteed rate of return. In fact, the company since 1998 hasn't earned anywhere near its authorized rate of return.

If we have time, we might play Atlanta after that second game. Royce City wanted to come down here and play, and we had guaranteed them three games in the tournament. And we need to play, too.

If we didn't feel confident...we wouldn't be going through this. We have seven or eight full-time people on staff this year with no guaranteed revenue coming in. (But) I don't want to be so overconfident or arrogant that we think it's a done deal - we're going to have a really tough six months ahead of us.

I don't believe he'll start right now, but we have cleared the air extremely well. I like the way he trained (Friday), specifically. Right now, Jeff is ready to come in. I'm counting on him to play, don't know how many minutes. Nobody's guaranteed minutes in this franchise. Jeff is aware of that and, I think, is prepared to play and do whatever it takes to help this team.

I am always pleased with Maria. She is a player that works extremely hard. She never stops working. You are always guaranteed from what you are going to get from her. So I am not surprised the nine points where there for her. She really works for everything.

I believe we must protect Medicare's guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.

Because of the level we're at, we can win the regular season but we're not guaranteed into the NCAA tournament. At this level, you have to win your own tournament.

Because of their dedication to the negotiation process, DISH Network has guaranteed that their customers will not miss a pitch of the 2006 Cleveland Indians season. We are thrilled to have DISH Network as a partner and are extremely appreciative of their dedication to their subscribers.

If I was guaranteed a spot on the team, it would be different. But as it is I'd have to play three months straight in Europe to maybe get a captain's pick.

Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere.

Four years ago he was a freshman and we lost, and he guaranteed me then that he'd get me a region championship.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

We talk all the time about how it takes eight games to win the state, but when you put things in perspective, you're really only guaranteed two more games. If you lose two, you're gonna be done.

Have fun this weekend because you are not guaranteed to get back again. Once they realize where they are, I think it will be a real confidence booster for both of them. I hope they enjoy the time they get up there.

Have you ever seen a company that offers two services, one free and the other paid, provide as good a service to the free one? It is guaranteed that the quality of service for those who do not pay will go down.

He's definitely a proven player, but he's not a guaranteed starter for us, so he's got to show that he can make a contribution. But he's still a good player and can do some things that will help us win games. But how it pans out, no one knows.

Hollywood Online has come up with what is arguably the best way to reach frequent moviegoers on a widespread and guaranteed basis, ... We're delighted to be part of the debut.

He'd been told that he'd play regularly for Bristol Rovers and I put it to him that he couldn't be guaranteed that here. Every one of our players in the squad is happy to fight for a place and I don't want players here who aren't up for the challenge.

He carried us. Before the game he guaranteed that we would win.

Guaranteed -- we broke up a possible deal for some investment bankers,

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

I think it is fair to say that (the) winner of this game has a serious leg up on the other team. The winner of this game, if you are able to win a home game, is guaranteed at least a piece of it. There is not much margin for error.

I think it's almost guaranteed that those who stay will be those with the least economic opportunity the people who don't have anyplace else to go.

I though that this was a very good start to the season and that everything went about how we expected them to unfold. Any time you can finish a race with the top-three finishers, you are almost guaranteed to win the race. This is just the beginning and we know we need to continue to build off of this momentum.

I think that everybody collectively got together and we understood that it was just our last few minutes. You're only guaranteed this one game, as far as the NCAA tournament is concerned. We just tried to get whatever we had left.

I think arena football (revenue-sharing model) is a trend in regards to sports that don't have competitive leverage to get guaranteed rights fee,

I think it's pretty ridiculous that they're trying to enforce these ridiculous new laws. They're trying to take away our civil rights guaranteed to us by the United States Constitution.

It is no good squeezing all this extra activity into your day if you eat more than you need. But cut down on the calories you consume, accumulate more activity throughout the day and you are guaranteed to lose weight.

I was literally just a few days away from taking a guaranteed two-year deal from my Spanish team. And I would have been fine with that because I was providing for my family.

Open source is a development methodology, and choice is not guaranteed by a development methodology.

Our schedule has been balanced. There are generally times when you have to play those guaranteed games. You wonder what it does to the mindset of your players, but we've played on the road at Providence and Miami and up in New York against Syracuse and Wake Forest. I think we've been tested.

Really, nothing could go wrong right now without getting an agent. It's a waste of time for me to go in the second round. You are not guaranteed anything in the second round.

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Peaceful protests are guaranteed by the constitution, rallies should not be prohibited.

Peace and security cannot be guaranteed by the construction of walls, by the erection of checkpoints and the confiscation of land, but rather by the recognition of rights.

Some of the deals guaranteed (performers) a sellout, ... That's a dumb way to run the business.

Some of the players think they have a guaranteed place in the side and that they are the best. I think they are getting confused.

Some issues go beyond rationality. Any sign of an affront to northern sovereignty is absolutely guaranteed to get on the front page of all the newspapers.

Terrorists are using the Internet in an extraordinary way. We will target Internet cafes because we realize terrorists are going to these cafes because they have guaranteed anonymity there,

Mark Martin taught me that you're never guaranteed to be in Victory Lane, and to appreciate it every time and I remembered that. I'm proud of myself for continuing to fight and give 100 percent throughout all of it. I never once didn't come to the race track and try, and I believe that'll pay off for me.

I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this time.

I think mentally it's nice to know you're guaranteed a winning season, especially for the seniors. It's nothing we focused on, but it feels good to know. Regardless, no way do we want to stop now. We're eager for a big game with Penn, and we'll need to be.

The act provided guaranteed payments to rural counties for road maintenance and schools.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve . . . because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Microsoft would no longer have guaranteed placement on users' desktops. That would mean its ability to leverage the desktop in terms of selling other services would be severely reduced, or it would have to negotiate directly to get that leverage.

You kind of know your last game in college. In the NFL, you're trying to keep fighting to get to that last game. Sometimes you don't make it to the last game. You're not guaranteed to have that last game with everybody watching. You've just got to play every game as if it's your last.