Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marks

We brought the American flag back to Teheran with honor but without chauvinism, and in an atmosphere of mutual respect. What we can do is help to change the atmosphere. We can change the climate, we can create some of the openings. But if the governments are not interested, nothing is going to happen in the end.

Ryan Ford

We're proud to support our employees who are serving our country, and this flag will be given a prominent spot at Keystone.

Charles Schumer

Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

Dan Patrick

The perception is that these kids are not waving American flags and standing for a better America. These kids are denouncing America. They're demanding that America change their laws, give them free health care, give them free education ? that it's their right.

Mark Williams

We are proud to welcome the Best Western Chincoteague Island to our chain. This versatile property offers a quality lodging choice for families and leisure guests traveling to Chincoteague Island, as well as corporate guests serving NASA, the Navy and NOAA. We are happy to raise the Best Western flag at this unique island property.

Mark Williams

We are proud to welcome the Best Western All Star Inn and Suites to our chain. We are excited to raise the Best Western Flag in Chatsworth and offer guests another quality lodging option in Southern California.

Lily Koppel

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

Eddie Izzard

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

Mark Shapiro

We're interested and we're waiting for a proposal from Major League Baseball. It's not going to generate the kind of excitement that World Cup soccer does, given the history and the equity just isn't there yet. But at least for this country, anything with the America's pastime and the American flag is sure to be a winning combination.

Ken Lewis

We're going to go after whatever grant funding is available. We think this is a nice balance in allocating the available resources.

Tom O'Neill

What Hollywood has done is push the responsibility for funding movies onto the creative people who make them.

Judy Gresser

What he has done is created a permanent source of funding for these agencies. The organizations he has named in the fund can count on receiving an annual check from now until forever.

Hal Rogers

What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.

Kyle Bordelon

We can develop all the schedules we want, but until the funding is there for planned replacement, our time is wasted. You have to spend money to save money.

Brian Halla

What's needed is more funding for basic research, a desire to compete globally and an awareness of the role technology plays in our security and quality of life.

Joel Sawyer

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.

Gayle Martin

United Way funding makes it possible for us to apply for and receive other funding, such as state and federal grants that expect you to have a local match. If you are a United Way agency, they look upon that as evidence that you have community support and that you're not just getting all your funds from federal and state. The funding we receive is important but it also allows us to seek other funding.

Michelle Harutunian

United Way funding is vital to Harvest Texarkana's daily operations, being one of the few nonprofits that does not receive government funding on an annual basis. We are totally reliant on United Way dollars, profits from various fund-raisers and donations from area businesses, churches and community groups and individuals.

Randy Honebrink

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Kelly Leonard

When we were talking to them about the marketing, I said traditional theater marketing never works for us. We need college students, we need young people who wouldn't necessarily go to Denver Center. We get a lot of people at Second City who don't know they're coming to an Actors' Equity theater. A lot of marketing we're doing is promoting Red Scare without the Second City name or the Denver Center name.

Michigan State

When we were driving over here before the game, it seemed like the Big Ten opened like the Red Sea,'' he said.

Luis Suarez

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

David Berkowitz

We're making very good progress, but we're not stopping there. We're working with manufacturers to reduce fat and sodium in things like salad dressing ... and we're going to continue to work to make the food taste as good as it can taste.

Charles Lee

We're going to take a careful look at the result to determine if there's any issue. I think that it raises a red flag. We have to look at that carefully to determine if there's something here.

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Steve McCraw

We've asked for all Texas officials to keep an accurate accounting of costs that are directly related to the relief effort so that we can ensure these are reimbursed." ()

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Ned Walker

We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

Joe Browne

We're going to take into account the status of the relief and rescue efforts in Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast and apply league policies and precedents in as much of an extent as possible. NFL teams play their games outside their home stadiums either in another NFL city or in a city in their home territory. There is no precedent for playing any games in a non-NFL city.

Mark Foley

We're going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.

Richard Bernstein

What we're seeing today is a relief rally from last week, ... There is really nothing to hurt the market today. All the techs are rebounding well.

Gary Ackerman

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

Hal Rogers

What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.

Eric Williams

We're still recovering survivors and bodies. I can tell you right now, we have 11 confirmed dead.

James E. Faust

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Mirwaiz Farooq

Please suspend your business and work for three hours to spend time in prayer for the dead and the survivors of the unforgettable calamity that visited our brethren.

Phil Klay

If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.

Harry Reid

The poorest of the poor have been hit the hardest by Katrina. Shouldn't we consider not cutting Medicaid $10 billion? Because that is where the money goes, to the poorest of the poor. Cut student loans? Food stamps? These are cuts to the very programs that survivors of Katrina need,

Dr. Bailes

He is likely one of the longest survivors of this sort of exposure, not only carbon monoxide, but the other circumstances in the mine.

Stuart Eizenstat

There is great concern because the survivors are passing away at a rate of 1 percent a month and we all feel a sense of urgency,

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Brian Vickers

When it comes down to the end of the race, a 1-2-3 finish is great. But all three of us wants to be 1.

Joshua Katcher

When it comes down to a meet like this and you put two equally talented kids out there, it comes down to which one wants it more. Obviously, our little guys wanted to move on.

John Kline

When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

Dianne Nolan

We remember Alex and his family in our prayers. We have cards going out to the members of the pep band and our team wants to do something as a tribute to Alex in his remembrance.

Joe Johnston

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

Gerry Fleming

We're getting too cute, too fancy (with passes). That's what happens when you got new guys coming into the lineup that are skilled players playing with guys who are skilled players. Everybody wants to show off and show how great they are and how fancy they can make things happen. As a result, we turned the puck over and we all looked like we had no idea what we were doing.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Rick Burkholder

We're going to rehab him like he's going to play again. I'm sure he wants to get back and play. He's a guy who's been thrown two major surgeries. He rehabbed hard, and I think he can do it again.

Kevin Carter

We're going to find out who really wants to play and who really loves football.

Jon Fleischaker

What happens is, you get public agencies using that as an excuse, to withhold information that has nothing to do with Homeland Security.

Al Tompkins

Unless there's overwhelming reason to withhold the information, the public's need to know should come first.

George Cox

We're still not convinced there is a good reason for the government to withhold what is typically a public document. However, this new order is the correct legal way for the government to try to prevent the release of the report, as opposed to the unconstitutional effort to control the flow of information in a free society.

John Kyl

He'll tell his story and until he does it would be wise for people to withhold their judgment. People should hold their fire and wait until the facts come in, then we can discuss this in a rational, nonpartisan way rather than in a way that gives comfort to our enemies.

Scott Barton

We just have to get this case moving as quickly as possible. Hopefully (Judge Shake) will withhold judgment until after this case is settled.

Paul Luvera

If they did not know the record of the Bull's Eye retailer, then they certainly were negligent because it was a very blatant, shoddy business that was being conducted insofar as the inventory of rifles was concerned, ... If they did know about it, then most assuredly they have an obligation to withhold the sale and to require them to monitor correctly the sale and the inventory of their weapons.

Charles Ramsey

I don't believe the congressman, like most of the people we're talking to now, has any reason really to try to withhold anything, so we're going to go into this with the attitude that we'll get full cooperation until we're proven wrong.

Scott Ogden

I have known Coach Winn a long time and I know he always makes a run in the second half. I just told my players to stick with it and to withhold the pressure.

Bill Gates

The ability to really withhold information no longer exists.

Pat Riley

When it comes right down to it I coached a horrible game. I started the wrong lineup, I made the wrong substitutions and I called the wrong plays.

Craig Bradford

We're going to push this issue until they make this wrong right.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Dave Tippett

We're going to need all seven of those guys. To put numbers on them, that would be wrong right now.

Mark Levin

What this does is provide plausibility that we should be reinvestigating ascorbic acid in cancer treatment. It's not ready for patients. Patients shouldn't get the wrong idea. We don't want to provide false hope.

Vic Toews

What they say to me is that it is wrong that these individuals who have broken their obligations to society are now entitled to have the same voice in society.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Mindy Tucker

What he does not think is helpful to the country is misstatements and the spread of misinformation about the actions of the Justice Department. Anyone who reported this morning that he criticized anyone who opposed him was absolutely wrong and in doing so became a part of the exact problem he was describing.

David R. Brower

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?