Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Cathcart

Particularly the rhetoric they use around the things like marriage, where instead of advocating for fairness and inclusion, they actually advocate discrimination.

Main Street

State and local leaders advocate treating businesses equally whether they sell goods in a local store, on the phone, or over the Internet. Federal legislation should not create a protected class of taxpayers at the expense of Main Street and other taxpayers.

Scott Stanzel

Other than the president, there's no better advocate for the Bush-Cheney record of accomplishment than the vice president,

Waldo Jaquith

Rob Schilling was the primary advocate for an elected school board for years. That's a feather in his cap. But whether or not that's going to make anybody vote for him, I don't know. It's something that he's done, not something that he's promising to do. So I don't know that it's going to make a difference.

Chip Kunde

Rep. Nunes has led this effort for many years and been a tireless advocate on this issue.

Robertson Davies

Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

Patricia McKinney

I will never wait. I preach it all the time. I am an advocate for mammograms and breast exams.

Mike Johanns

I will always advocate we should support agriculture, ... I just think it's good federal policy and we can continue to do that notwithstanding what happens at the WTO.

Mike Johanns

I will always advocate we should support agriculture,

Marlon Manuel

President Arroyo is not the State by itself. This could only be exercised pursuant to a law enacted by Congress.

E. P. Thompson

Our push for more federal funds is not predicated on one meeting. It's a sustained effort that includes outreach to Congress as well as the administration.

David Walker

Part of the problem is that when Congress considers legislation, and the administration proposes it, they only consider a one-year, five-year, or maybe 10-year time horizon.

Mary Boyle

Part of what the K Street Project was about was making lobbyists indispensable to Congress because of the money they were raising.

Bill Young

Our nation's needy families would be better served if Mr. Cuomo spent less time holding press conferences and more time working with Congress to ensure his programs have the maximum impact for those who depend on them,

Ben Bernanke

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.

Ralph Hellman

Our message to the president and Congress is simple--let's work together to get a program done this year.

Tom DeLay

orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

Donald Rumsfeld

People have been moving together, talking, discussing things, ... You can always find someone who's going to try to be a dead-ender and say, 'If you don't do this, I won't do that.' But that's part of negotiation. We see that in the Congress and we see it in democratic systems all over the world.

Ken Lisaius

Our policy is not to discuss ongoing legal proceedings.

Blair Horner

(Pataki does) not view it as a way of discussing the issues of the state. It's about his image. He pounds away on themes: He's tough on crime. He's tough on taxes. He's tough on regulations. I would expect they stick to the formula.

Chris Caballero

Part of the discussion is to have a softer approach.

Daya Master

Our leadership is considering it but we have to discuss many practical things with the Norwegians.

E. O. Wilson

Sure we should discuss it. But we didn't.

Brian Kennedy

Sure, it was discussed in meetings. But it was never really taken seriously.

Jim Burns

Some of the numbers being discussed don?t sound sufficient. The Senate is talking in the neighborhood of $100 million for all of the states. That gets divided up really fast.

Abbe Lowell

I will discuss it with them. But I will discuss it with them, not with you.

Susan Warner

I think the time to discuss that is now.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Beck

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Charles Schumer

I think my constituents' view is very simple -- no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick.

Greg Mitchell

I have learned how people think about themselves and others. Law and rules prevent proper judgment!

Tom Wright

He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Bible Bible

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Jennifer McMahon

People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.

Mark Loughridge

Our pipeline for the first quarter is up year-to-year, with particular strength in our long-term businesses.

Jim Tracy

That was a part of the reason. There was one situation in particular that Kent picked up on. For competitive reasons, I'm not going to say what it was.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

Scott McGehee

Juliette in particular - there is so much in her face,

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

David Gray

For this particular location, people come here and it's really about wine,

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.