Endorsed Quotations

Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

There is no question that US interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.

There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.

Whether or not Clarence Norman has formally endorsed Sampson, he's certainly been telling people to vote for him, so it shouldn't be surprising that he's handing out flyers for him, if that's what happening,

We fail to see why Congress, having expressly endorsed an expensive surveillance role for EPA, ... would then implicitly preclude the agency from verifying substantive compliance.

When I looked at who would be the best choice to lead this district, I wanted to make sure that I endorsed a candidate who shared my commitment to the families, schools, and safety of this community. Janet Reilly understands the challenges facing Bay Area families. Janet is smart, committed, and policy oriented -- I trust her to make the thoughtful leadership decisions that will truly move California forward.

Mrs. Reagan has not endorsed any candidate in the campaign. Neither she nor President Reagan ever endorsed a candidate in a primary.

Obviously, it looks good now, but we're going to keep working until Lynn Swann is the endorsed candidate.

Obviously I was thrilled to receive such a strong vote of confidence from the party. Particularly since the party has never endorsed a challenger over a Republican supervisor.

Noe was trying to hide the transfer of fund and he put someone's name on the check, endorsed the check and deposited it into his own personal account,

My sense is that planned, permitted, endorsed napping by management is still rare.

If they think their invasion should be rewarded, it is outrageous. If they are throwing away this peace plan endorsed by the international community, then that means more war.

I wouldn't read too much into this enforcement-only approach. I think the leader has previously endorsed the idea of comprehensive reform, ... I'm not aware if he has changed his view.

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

It is a model which has been resoundingly endorsed by our growing customer base, our growing market share and our repeat business,

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

Our research-based approach distinguishes the Learning Leaders Program from other industry recognition programs. The benchmark criteria that will be used to evaluate submissions is based on years of quantitative and qualitative research and endorsed by our panel of senior industry advisors. Our research database, by far the largest and most comprehensive source of information related to enterprise learning, gives us the ability to rigorously assess organizations against peer performance in more than 21 different dimensions.

Some of our demands were met so the party has endorsed the constitution and is urging people to vote 'Yes',

It doesn't matter if they label it philosophy, science or home ec. For this to be endorsed as scientifically credible is a violation of church-state separation.

Members from both sides of the aisle endorsed a plan which will permit cable and phone companies to construct 'pay as you surf, pay as you post' toll booths for the Internet.

Today's outcome is a tremendous victory and a major milestone within the merger process, ... It is clear that Wachovia shareholders have strongly endorsed the compelling strategic rationale behind the Wachovia-First Union combination.

Unless you come into compliance with your obligations in October -- that is, draw down your forces and agree to the peace agreement that the contact group endorsed today which provides for self-government for Kosovo -- then NATO is prepared,

We haven't endorsed anybody. Are they people that I know and I like? The answer would be yes.

We are confident in running hotels without (brand) flags but we believe as Daytona Beach is evolving, it is important for the public to see the city endorsed by well-known brands.

We communicated to our local doctors that our candidate evaluation committee recommended to endorse Bailey Moseley. I think the local physicians went ahead with the information and it just needed to go through one more step. TEXPAC has endorsed Bailey Moseley.

We think the consultants' report endorsed our vision of what to do with downtown.

The party itself never officially endorsed or recommended him.

But let me make clear that I have not endorsed this nomination, ... It would be entirely premature of me to do so.

This way, if the case is referred to the DB, the DB can meet before the Council Meeting where any decision taken can be endorsed immediately, instead of wasting time.

Twenty-five years ago, there were no companies that offered same-sex domestic partner benefits. Today, there are more than 8,000. Twenty-five years ago, there were no states with laws that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Today, there are 16 that ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Twenty-five years ago, the Human Rights Campaign endorsed only one candidate for Congress. Last year, we endorsed 201. We were proud to have to opportunity to celebrate those and so many other benchmarks with some of our strongest allies in the fight for equality.

What the WGA has endorsed is not an immigration plan 'based in reality,' but a surrender plan based on capitulation to cheap labor interests. What is needed, and what the American public is demanding, is a true enforcement plan that is based in reality and the political will to enforce this nation's laws.

We don't use schools to distribute politically endorsed information.

We are very happy that the school board endorsed our efforts.

Even if we had somebody hand-picked who we wanted to replace Bob Ney, we couldn't do it anyway. But that's not the case. Bob Ney is our endorsed candidate." ()

There's no other book that's been endorsed by five first ladies.

The work is not authorized or endorsed by the brands, nor is it going to be shown publicly unless there's some spark of interest.

It was very significant two years ago when Greenspan endorsed the first Bush tax cut plan. So his basically lukewarm attitude now, saying that some of these ideas are good things in principle, but not at the expense of large deficits, has to weigh heavily on those moderate Republicans.

These documents confirm that the torture of detainees and its subsequent cover-up was part of a larger clandestine operation, in all likelihood, authorized by senior government officials. Despite mounting evidence of systemic abuse authorized or endorsed from above, however, not a single high level official has thus far been brought to justice.

The story is not a good one for the governor, ... There seems to be a common thread across all the proposition - if Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed it, Democrats and nonpartisans are reacting negatively and by turning off those two groups, it has made things very difficult for the governor.

The taboo is gone; the trend has been endorsed culturally.

After considering several offers for the company, (the board) has unanimously endorsed and is recommending that shareholders tender to the amended offer. We are satisfied the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

Subject to acceptable resolution of outstanding issues and satisfactory finalization of contractual language, the UAW GM National Negotiating Committee, the UAW National GM Council, and the UAW Retired Workers Advisory Council have unanimously endorsed this tentative agreement,

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

A majority of members who had endorsed Clark will at some point in the near future endorse Kerry.

They have endorsed entirely the initial libel judgment. It's a humiliation for the Telegraph and a vindication for George Galloway.

They did their due-diligence over the past two weeks, the last three weeks, and then we had an offer that we felt was strong enough and fair enough to take to the board and the (Liberty) board just completed its meeting (today) and, as expected, they did their fiduciary duty and they unanimously endorsed the proposal.

It's a question of whether the president's domestic agenda, which Sen. Thune endorsed earlier, is going to go very far this calendar year, ... There's been some changed priorities.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

The best bill, the Norwood-Dingell bill, is endorsed by the American Medical Association and by every state medical society and by hundreds of medical providers and patient organizations,

not good enough to be endorsed by Fox News.

I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from each party - Barack Obama and John McCain. Neither of them were leading the primaries at the time, but they seemed like the best candidates, solely from a tech policy perspective.

I have officially endorsed no one, ... I feel it's too soon.

In fact, he has a history of not only serving under a Republican president, but he's endorsed Allen before. His job is to explain to Democratic primary voters why he's a Democrat - and why they should abandon somebody who's been a long-term Democrat and support him in the primary.

Certainly we would like 1199's support to join with all the other unions that have endorsed Mike Bloomberg,

The majority of the Swiss people have again endorsed the bilateral path,

The Ethics Board believes that statutes should prohibit this activity. In fact, the Ethics Board has previously endorsed legislation to that effect.

The company endorsed consensus analysts' estimates of a 15 percent EPS growth in the new fiscal year,

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.