Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muqtada al Sadr

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

John Adams

Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies

Steve Capus

Look, this is what we are built for. You've got mundane days in the business and then days like this when all your work and planning are put to the test. We've got two small armies in two different parts of the world.

John Reid

Nato today faces greater threats to its long-term future than it ever did at the height of the Cold War. Now is the time to replace immobile armies with more flexible, rapid response forces.

Bob Dole

I have ... been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart -- by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.

Christina Rocca

We are worried about the continued mobilization of both armies facing each other,

Richard Perle

We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.

Ahmed Ben Bella

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Adam Michnik

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Clint Hurdle

The fact is, Kim pitched without a fastball or command of it. That's usually a recipe for disaster in this park.

Gary North

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

Eddie Campbell

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Chester W. Nimitz

When you're in command, command.

Granth Sahib

Wherever He sends them, there they go. By His Command, the Lord, Har, Har, abides within our minds; by His Command we merge in Truth.

Tom Slater

Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swing on him, but other than that, they didn't take any good swings at him.

Tyra Banks

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

Moses

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Sammy Day

She had good control and command of her change-up. She just kept them off-balance.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Eckhart Tolle

Presence is a state of inner spaciousness

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".