Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

History will judge them harshly and their people will not absolve them, if they fail.

Anthony Kennedy

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Robert Brown

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice

Dave Nonis

I want to make it clear this does not absolve the players for their part in this season. In no way does this mean there will be no further changes. No way. The fact is there is a lot of blame to be spread around and a lot of it falls on the shoulders of people that were in that locker room.

Juan Carlos

Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, ... They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.

John McCarthy

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

Nicolas Davila

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Max Baucus

President Bush likes to say that trade is for everyone, and that we all share the benefits -- including workers .... This amendment presented the president with the perfect opportunity to show a real commitment to those priorities. But he let the opportunity pass him by.

Jack Shea

Our mission is both to ensure that the First Amendment rights of our members are not trampled upon by overzealous legislators and also to raise the consciousness level of the entertainment community with regard to the social responsibility of filmmakers,

Jonathan Zittrain

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

Ann Beeson

Our first amendment rights are irreparably harmed, every day the gag continues,

O. J. Simpson

I will not hide behind the Fifth Amendment

John Spencer

It is a shame that President Clinton is losing his First Amendment rights. We think this is a big mistake. How else would we have known that President Clinton was working behind the scenes to support the Dubai port deal while Sen. Clinton was trying to block it?

Rep. Lawrence

I think there were a few of us who voted on the amendment that were confused as to what it actually did and I am thankful for opportunity to rethink our actions.

Peter Simonson

just a clear and unqualified constitutional violation. So the university should probably know that regardless of what the outcome of their investigation regarding Muammar shows, they are still vulnerable to a serious First Amendment claim.

Mat Staver

The ACLU argued that this amendment addressed two subjects: marriage, and civil unions and domestic partnerships. They said people would be in favor of voting for marriage, but may not be in favor of banning civil unions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and said that this amendment is about the singular purpose of marriage and maintaining and preserving the protections and obligations of marriage.

Marc Saltzman

Part of the console experience is playing with someone beside you and trash-talking. But in time I think it will be very important.

Cammi Granato

Please, ... don't indicate that I brought this up at all. ... Besides smiling about it, I haven't taken it further.

Masafumi Nakayama

Last week, beside a sell-off in the 30 shares being excluded, there was broad, index-based selling to make way for the more expensive shares coming in. Now the market figures it was overdone.

Maria Monk

Large quantities of bread are made in the Black Nunnery every week, for besides what is necessary to feed the nuns, many of the poor are supplied.

John Arnold

Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all I've heard of, besides people walking around breaking into cars.

Charles Schumer

The ads, whether they come from the right or the left, are beside the point. The issue is: What are Roberts's views?

Charles Schumer

The ads, whether they come from the right or the left, are beside the point, ... The issue is: What are Roberts's views?

Gary Brunner

That was a heck of a performance by Ashley. Besides her great numbers she has also stepped up and taken a leadership role on this team despite being a sophomore.

Dave Schmotzer

That's baseball. Two more inches and he's the hero and everyone's jumping on him and telling him what a great player he is. We had other opportunities besides that one, though. It's a case of either you step up, or you step down.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

Diana Aviv

In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take that obligation very seriously.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

Phyllis Maxwell

I let her up here as long as she will tolerate it.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Jim Yonts

We will not tolerate the kind of behavior.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Kevin Marino

It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

John C. Maxwell

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.