Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Chris Hansen

The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

Charles Vest

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

Cliff Stearns

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Aydin Tuncer

When AOL announces a rate hike, it's leveraging its customer base. They have the multiple e-mail accounts and user lists, which makes it difficult for people to switch services.

Kate Atkinson

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Nikola Tesla

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Jeremy Jackson

We're not going to continue to sit back and watch them under perform, ... We're going to take action, terminate those accounts and bring the money back to the passive index fund until we find somebody who is capable enough to manage the monies for us.

Christopher Atkins

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Shari Sebbens

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

Bo Burnham

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

Becky Anderson

The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our backstage, all of our dressing rooms, everything like that will be in the other building. The restrooms will be in the other building, plus the concessions will be there.

Misty Haven

So many people still talk about it to this day; 'I can't believe you gave him a high-five.' It's just something that we always did to each other backstage that we just carried out to the wedding itself.

Kevin Phillips

Those guys can drink like fish. Their rider for the show every night, they get two big bottles of Jack Daniels, a big bottle of vodka, a big bottle of tequila and four cases of beer. And then that's not including when they go to the bar and people buy them drinks; that's just what they have backstage for them every night.

Jill Scott

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

Carl Reiner

Can someone please explain to me what that was all about? I was backstage and didn't hear one iota of humor during that entire presentation.

Meredith Brooks

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.

Gary Sheffer

We disagreed with them that this disclosure was a productive exercise--how would it at all improve the situation on the Hudson?

Paul Hodgson

Transparency is a big problem. Disclosure levels in the United States are not as good as in other parts of the world.

Jeff Davis

We are a grass-roots volunteer organization that has at all times complied with Minnesota registration and disclosure requirements.

William Higgins

We got what we wanted, ... more disclosure and better understanding.

Steve Milunovich

In fact, increased disclosure paints IBM's financial position in a somewhat more positive light.

Marty Meehan

Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'

Mary Osako

Yahoo Hong Kong was not involved in any way in the disclosure of information in Mr Tao's case.

Eric Fehrnstrom

Photos are public documents and subject to disclosure upon request.

Greg Miller

The allegations made by the Stacy Foundation are entirely without merit. The Fund has always maintained the highest standards of financial disclosure - including valuations - in its (limited partner) communications.

Dennis Christopher

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

Steve Adlard

We played a great first half and dominated play and possession and frustrated them in everything they tried to. I don't think they got into flow of game. Obviously with no shots on goal it gives indication.

John Adshead

We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated all over the place. It was a full-on rout. We've been an unpredictable group, there's no question about that. We've had an up-and-down year in regard to our focus. Some nights we look great and some nights we don't. Tonight was unfortunately a don't.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated all over the place.

John McNichols

We pretty much dominated from the team's scoring aspect, and benefited on some events that only the D-1 schools were scored.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Alan J. Heeger

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

Scott Skiles

We have had games like that where we haven't been sharp. I was hopeful that we were going to come out and play well. We pretty much got dominated all over the place.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Dr. Katz

There are minimal differences between races. We make a mistake thinking we're all that different from each other. The differences in our health are more related to lifestyle, education, finances and poverty than they are to genetics.

Bob Hatcher

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

Mitchell Daniels

The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

John Hutton

We will not put the long-term stability of the public finances at risk,

Mayor Bingham

I will be giving a harsh look at all the finances in the city.

Jan Hatzius

There is a more plausible explanation for the spending slowdown, namely the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary stimulus from a household sector whose finances remain stretched,

Rand Paul

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

Ray Lewis

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Noah Feldman

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

Estelle

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

Eddie Jordan

We played well for a full 48 minutes today. We did a lot of good things out there, particularly with our defense.

Eddie Jordan

We played well for a full 48 minutes today.

Phill Laursen

We opened one of the canisters this size and it was just full of red dust.

Scott Weiss

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

Seinabo Sey

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

Mike Birbiglia

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Levon Helm

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

Dick Cheney

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Samuel Butler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Jim Bowden

We could not prove medically that they weren't able to play.

Michael Chertoff

Truckloads of water, ice, meals, medical supplies, generators, tents and tarpaulins

Donald Trump

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

Samuel Butler

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Barbara Matthews

With the medical evidence, we could prove that was not the case.

Rory Robertson

I am skeptical that this time will be different.

John Malkovich

I'm not a very skeptical person.

Joe Wilcox

I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.

Joel Edgerton

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Christina Romer

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Jesse Jackson

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.