Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

John Bolton

whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to U.S. interests.

Trent Johnson

We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Gary Sinise

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

Shane Warne

When we go to South Africa, it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and try to nail us down.

William Myers

The Net by its very nature is hostile to the traditional methods of governance,

Brent Petway

I knew it would be like that, a hostile environment, so I was ready for it. But it wasn't that bad.

Jason Elam

If you have a championship mentality, then you have to go into hostile environments and win on the road. It's just the way it is.

Hugh Johnson

That's the situation today, ... Since that's the case, I'd be more inclined to think this will be a negative year than a positive year.

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

John Sutton

Maybe he's not as inclined to question the who, what, where, when and how first,

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

John Thune

I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.

Jacques Rogge

Whoever wins, it's going to be a prestigious city. I'm often questioned who might be the winner and I'm always inclined to say the winner is the IOC.

Tom Rogers

People will be much more inclined to watch broadband-delivered video if it shows up on the TV screen.

Marty Kaplan

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Fred Haberman

Our motto: Pond hockey, the way nature intended it.

Ken Johnson

Our programs were always intended as a safety net, but Medicare is taking over that role for older Americans.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Ted Lavit

He never has, never intended to and never did.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

Big Sean

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Mike Knesevitch

It allows you to take a view on probabilities.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.