Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Ronnie Musgrove

As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Ed Koch

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

John McCarthy

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Ross Anderson

The people must insist on the truth from our elected officials and our news media,

Charles Barkley

Only poor people go to jail.

Ayn Rand

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Asif Ali Zardari

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Don Cheadle

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

Burl Cain

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Barbara Deming

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Austin O'Malley

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Brian Urlacher

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

David Vitter

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Benazir Bhutto

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Antony Beevor

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,

Derek Fisher

I am and always will be a leader.

Denis Waitley

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

Arthur Rock

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Denise Levertov

Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.

Denis Waitley

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Dennis Miller

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Al Bernstein

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Al Franken

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Billie Jean King

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Tiger Woods

When I had the record and the money title, it's very misleading,

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Kathy Mattea

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Sherri Shepherd

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Matt Nagle

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Darrell Waltrip

Since I'm in Seattle, I'm pulling for Seattle!

James Billups

She pulled away, ... It was unwelcome. She didn't want that.

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Audrey Meadows

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

Audre Lorde

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Audre Lorde

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

Antony Starr

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Dennis Kucinich

Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

Brandon Roy

Let's throw that one out the window and play Oregon.

Corin Tucker

When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Yogi Berra

One warning, and if the infractions continue, we throw the flag.

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Mike Candrea

She's pretty much week-to-week. She's still able to throw and do workouts right now.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?