Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

When an agency becomes as large and bureaucratic as they are, there's trouble, ... This Week.

Jack Straw

We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that,

Luke Harding

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

Ronnie Chappell

We disagree with the substance and characterization of the alleged violations. We'll be seeking an informal settlement conference with the agency to resolve these differences.

Karen Harris

We are delighted that Geronimo Wales is going from strength to strength and hope to build on our existing portfolio of clients in order to grow the agency this year.

Yves Behar

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

Carl Willis

We serve children, who have been known to break into employee and agency vehicles. A gun would present a danger to the children and the staff.

Cathleen Blair

We send out a request for proposal and the agency comes up with a program and applies for a grant to fund it.

Karen Evans

We are considering making the service provider that is not meeting the agency's needs bear the cost. We need clear language in the service-level agreements, so providers and agency customers know what is expected of them.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Trudie Styler

We plan to sell honey and olive oil, launching in (London department store) Harrods in August.

Ed Royce

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

Dana Rohrabacher

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Joe Haldeman

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

John Davis

We need information from the department heads as soon as possible. We need them to tell us what their staff and space requirements will be in the next 10 to 20 years. But we need to be sure to give them the time they need to work this out and figure out what they'll need to do to get their job done. Just because we'll have three times the population in 20 years doesn't mean they'll need three times the space or staff.

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Neal Soss

Well, I think the Federal Reserve has pretty much talked itself into another 1/4 point move on the Federal funds rate.

Steve Largent

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

Christine Ebersole

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Winfield Scott Hancock

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Chris Stewart

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

Marcia Angell

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

Adam Myers

We didn't see the big increase in Federal Reserve interest rates. I think that surprised a lot of the market.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Nostradamus

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Ed Nelson

When I get out there I want to start a fire under the team.

Dianne Jacob

We are not going to let the shots that were fired today pierce the heart of this community, ... We will survive. And we will be stronger because of it.

Alan Cohen

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

LeBron James

When you're on fire like that, you just keep shooting them. We had great spacing on the floor.

Charles Krauthammer

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

Cedric Drake

We didn't play with the same fire and intensity that got us here. We got here with a lot of work and playing hard every play. We took some plays off in the second quarter. We picked it up in the second half, but by then, it was too late.

Bill Hader

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

Kelly Callahan

We'll have a lot more items than we've had in the past, probably 15 different vehicles and all kinds of other things, from A to Z.

Jeff Bezos

In September, 6 of the 10 top-selling items on Amazon.com were from our electronics store.

George Dreckmann

If your stuff is buried, please uncover it so the crews can pick it up. And don't put large items out at all.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

Clint Eastwood

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Phil Klay

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Alex Rodriguez

When you think about the Space Needle, you also think about Junior rounding third.

Bob Seger

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

Caitlyn Jenner

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

Ron Peduzzi

The juniors are going to step up and make some things happen.

Karalyn Dehn

My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my senior year was the best, but now they're back down.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Kevin Zachek

Overall it's been a surprise, so far. We went 2-1 at a Clovis tournament with some players out of position, junior varsity players who have stepped up and most of our pitching still playing basketball.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Rafe Spall

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

David Beckham

We could have done without this, leading up to the World Cup.

Donna Thompson

The quality of the wines is excellent, and many individuals have won medals for the wines produced from kits.

Peter Judge

Sports that haven't been producing medals before are producing medals now.

Benjamin Agosto

We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just amazing.

Connie Thomason

It provides money for shirts, medals and ribbons.

Benjamin Raich

It's unbelievable for me to win two medals here.

David Mitchell

They're a lot better in the Summer Olympics. They've won 284 medals in the Summer Olympics.

Matt Savoie

I didn't set out to prove I could win national medals from Peoria, Illinois. But that's where I live, and everything I need is there.

Ante Kostelic

Probably when I quit skiing, I will think about it more. Right now, I'm just concentrated on my skiing. It's not about how many medals I won or will win. I'm just having fun.

Kelly Vanderbeek

It would be nice to have two medals between us.

Virginia Postrel

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

E. Hicks

When we pulled out on Wednesday, the military had pretty much taken over the area. There were even officers from NYPD and LAPD so the security was really tightening down.

Dick Cheney

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Dick Cheney

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Dick Cheney

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

Dick Cheney

We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Dick Cheney

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Saina Nehwal

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Lord Salisbury

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Danilo Magampo

We are required to turn up at the police headquarters before our 2 to 10 p.m. shift for instructions.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Chris Carter

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

Wyclef Jean

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Tom Rath

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

Tom Rockwell

We know the San Andreas produces earthquakes every 200 years. It's been a long time.

Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Saeb Erekat

international protection for the Palestinians is something that must be taken seriously by the United States and the international community.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

George Taylor

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

Hillary Clinton

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

Thom McDaniels

We had three different protection schemes because they give you three different fronts,

Marcus Garvey

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.