Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Ereli

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

Franco Harris

We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from where our national administration has taken us and where the Republicans in state government want to take us.

John Stossel

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

Jonathan Moyo

When I was in government it was routine for these CIO agents and their factional counterparts in government and ZANU PF politicians to abuse me as a scapegoat for anything they were unable to explain or defend.

Jim Hall

When I was in government I always paid close attention to whistleblowers. While sometimes people consider them a thorn in the side, many times they're very conscientious individuals who are trying to do their job.

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Will Self

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Ron Redmond

We reminded the government of Chad that it has the primary responsibility for ensuring the security of refugee camps on its territory.

Al Pacino

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

William Shakespeare

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

Calvin Trillin

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Janet Yellen

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

Dave Barry

Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Benicio Del Toro

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

Micki Pirozzoli

He was the grease that gets the wheel moving but doesn't have to be out front getting noticed. That's the type of guy Dick was. I truly feel that Brian is that way also.

Jack Baldwin

I can't keep the mirrors clean in my condo. We're constantly having to clean and wipe grease up.

Patrick Collins

Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Bullock

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Charlotte Lennox

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

William Shakespeare

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

John Grant

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Amy Jo Martin

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

Carl Hiaasen

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.