Famous Quotes & Sayings

Krishna Sitaula

The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.

Nina Easton

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Dana Priest

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

Nina Easton

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

Laura Schlessinger

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

Victoria Moran

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

Bernie Sanders

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Cathleen Schine

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Ben Horowitz

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Warren Giles

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Wesley Clark

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Chris Carter

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

Phil Gramm

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

Tom DeLay

The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.

David Pratt

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

Chris Ware

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Richard P. Feynman

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

Pauline Marois

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

David Chang

The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

Le Corbusier

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Lynn Flewelling

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

Bjarke Ingels

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Andrew J. West

You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

James Slavet

We are creating much more of a platform around which people can participate.

David Patterson

We are creating an open-source toolkit for Internet research.

Camille Paglia

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

Lionel Barber

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

Lisa Foster

We'll be going to the Factory at Franklin on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

David Ho

In three to five years'' time, we hope to open a drug manufacturing factory there,

Francesca Zambello

The character, a poor factory girl, would have something much smaller, much simpler.

Pat Buchanan

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Albert Shanker

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.

Jean Alesi

We have a factory and we still want to use it next year.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Roger Baldwin

With large numbers coming, we will support the grassroots organization within our normal programs.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Cindy Sheehan

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Robert Rich

This is a very grassroots movement. Most of my promoters are people like Allan who just want to help out.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Ken Mayland

We are not there yet. I think anything north of 83 percent, we could see price pressures.

Curt Courtwright

We made a pact that we were going to turn the program around.

Donald Trump

The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.

Don Logan

We made a pact that, No. 1: no politics.

Mark Billingham

As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

Adolf Hitler

I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Dick Cheney

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,

Bob Dole

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Charles Ruff

The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth,

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Frostee Rucker

When he stayed back this year it wasn't just to have fun. It was to put his signature on his work.

Abdul Kalam

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Abdul Kalam

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

Wendy Wasserstein

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Lexa Doig

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

Joan Rivers

[Signature phrase:] Can we talk?

Tom Ford

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Ashley Gronewoller

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

George Herbert

A trade is better then service.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Nicolas Malebranche

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Mortimer Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Paul Trainor

You wonder how long the unions will take it.

Henry A. Kissinger

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Joe Seroogy

The Union makes De Pere what it is.

Gary Dellaverson

The union is still here, we're still here.

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.