Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Byron Callan

Recent divestitures have created a pure-play military tactical vehicle company.

Patrick Phillips

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Kelly McBride

Relationships between men and women will change, and so will the workplace. Maybe it will create a truly equitable society or maybe it will flip it and women will become so politically, socially and economically powerful, we'll get whiplash.

George Clarke

Our passing game has really improved this season, ... Tonight, we were passing around the other team, which created a lot of opportunities.

Michael Kelly

Our real goal is to create hydrogen transportation corridors.

Christina Baker Kline

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Rossi Ralenkotter

Part of what we do as destination markets is to fuel the local economy and create jobs in the community.

Ann Veneman

Part of what this report does is to highlight the issue to the public to create an outrage about what is going on.

Alexander Milinkevich

Our objective is to create a stir in society.

Stephen Harper

Our party will make those decisions in our own way and in our own time,

Mary Adams

People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.

Jackie Kruszewski

People never know who their state legislator is. They're kind of obscure people who are in Richmond making decisions for us, and if they get 10 letters on one subject, then that's a big deal.

Klaus Baader

Such a government would have a huge majority in the lower house and should face few difficulties getting the upper house on side, but such a government would be likely to be racked by divisions and would probably find making policy decisions difficult.

Richard Dyer

Some of the legal decisions have kind of handcuffed us, because we can see some of the people are deteriorating, but we don't have the right to intervene,

Keith Richardson

Some of the decisions we made were tough.

Clay Norton

Our philosophy is to have an offense for every defense thrown at you. We try to respond to whatever we see. We just like to keep it simple. (Kennedy) is getting better, and he's having better decisions to make.

Joe Waters

Our species are having a big impact on this planet, and there are some very big decisions that have to be made. Hopefully, we can get some answers.

Bob Jacoby

Robert made some big decisions in that game and we only won, 13-12. He really matured into a quarterback and could really read the defenses.

Sean Ellis

Our position dictates toughness. It's an honor to be a Carson linebacker.

Chris Nolen

Our last four opponents have had to play our game. If we can do that again, and dictate tempo, we'll be fine. We don't want to get in a track meet with them.

Brian McInerney

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

Dave Stewart

I will keep it tight for the first round, take a good look at him and take it from there. I intend to outbox him; I like to dictate the pace and to keep things sharp.

Eric Chavez

Just a week ago, we couldn't find a hit. Hitting is really going to dictate how well we do the next month.

John Mayall

I write songs about real things, ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

David Lowry

I think it's really important for us to set a good tone for the end of the season, really come out and execute our game plan, dictate the tempo of the game, ... I think one of the things we have this year is that we are all perfectionists and we are all trying to get that perfect game going and we haven't had that yet.

Robert Cochran

Lindale is very well coached, they have good athletes, good size, they're smart and do what it takes to stay in games. We hope our press will dictate the pace of the game.

Dan Egan

I think he's letting the marketplace kind of dictate the pace.

Rich Robinson

That conceals from the public how interest groups are interacting with elected officials.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond. Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond, ... Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

John Kasich

Republicans have gotten the sense that they're going to get elected by passing out money to people.

Mike Cox

I will not let a bully, ... prevent me from doing the job the people of Michigan elected me to do.

Mike McCurry

I think there has to be, as we've just indicated, some arrangements for a transitional process that leads to a newly elected government." ()

Nick Ryan

Jim Nussle is doing the job he was elected to do by getting results on Iowa priorities.

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Fred Jones

Hamas is a terrorist organization, should disarm, and renounce violence. We will not talk to any elected officials who are members of a terrorist group.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Diane Hochevar

It depresses me. It surprises me that the majority would not want to protect a viable unborn child.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Edward Seaga

I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Uma Bharati

Party workers are at cross-roads, in a state of shock and confusion.

Beck

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

B. J. Novak

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Bill Shorten

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Bill Shorten

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

John Prendergast

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.