Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Charles Leadbeater

People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

Heidi McIntosh

Road claims like these have become the weapon of choice by modern-day sagebrush activists trying to wrest control from federal government. It's time to stop.

David Wald

Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was going around making promises for job interviews he was just lying.

Larry Holmes

Many activists around the country have been discussing this date.

Geoffrey Kors

We now have the Senate of the largest state in the nation endorsing marriage equality. This undermines President Bush's claim that this effort is being undertaken by a few activist judges.

Brian Johnson

I think the result will be you'll have a shareholder activist with a significant but not controlling interest who will lobby for a restructuring. For the first time, we could have someone who could look out for shareholders.

Jeff Sessions

I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.

Larry Neal

The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

Jalal Talabani

stand with the Iraqi people as they move forward with the Democratic process.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Tessa Hafen

It is not a coincidence. Sen. Reid is the Democratic leader and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, which puts him in a key position to help Nevada.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Sean Smith

I think he can win and will win the Democratic nomination. As a campaign, that is 100 percent of our focus.

Lee Miringoff

It could turn into a Democratic year in New York, which might then have an impact on down-ballot races for Congress.

Stan Jones

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Jim Stuart

Republicans have not been doing their share of registering voters. The Democrats should be congratulated.

Mitch McConnell

I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who never had any idea what was in this bill, at least this year they are reading it." ()

Lucy Powell

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing.

John Harwood

It didn't work so well for Democrats in '04 though.

Marshall Wittmann

He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.

Howard Dean

I think the Democrats are going to have to think long and hard, as the hearings progress, about whether we should support him.

Gerhard Schroeder

for the Social Democrats to be the strongest party.

Celinda Lake

If the Democrats are smart, they will play this thing until it's completely overhauled.

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.

Scott Reed

such established Clinton-haters as Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire have prominently co-authored legislation with Mrs. Clinton.

Mary Shea

New Hampshire out-played us for most of the first half,

David Reutimann

New Hampshire has never had a repeat winner in the truck series. I'd like to keep that streak alive.

Scott Morgan

New Hampshire has always done well in this ranking.

Laura Halldorson

We're happy about tonight, OK? We'll talk about New Hampshire later.

Kenneth Relihan

I think what you're going to find is that the standards in New Hampshire are permissive, not descriptive.

David Souter

The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.

Stephanie Cutter

Ridiculous, ... there is nothing like Iowa and New Hampshire to make somebody look better.

Evan Osnos

Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

Fuzzy Zoeller

Steve Alford (present Iowa coach). He played there and I think he wants the job.

Bill Bryson

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Bill Bryson

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

Tom Izzo

I thought Iowa played very solid. In the second half, they played much better defensively.

Joe Trippi

Look, we haven't won Iowa or New Hampshire, a vote hasn't been cast,

Terry Brands

To Tom, the Iowa job means something he's been working for his whole life.

Terry Branstad

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Conan O'Brien

Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.

Kellan Lutz

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting, 10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

Henry Garza

We try to give a taste of all different flavors. Because when you have a burrito, you don't want just meat -- you want onions and peppers too!

Bret Bielema

Now, we're getting into the meat and potatoes about spring ball.

Bruce Willis

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Britt Ekland

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

Martin Lawrence

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Martin Lawrence

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Abigail Adams

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Samuel Best

I think he's in real trouble, at least until the November election.

David Irving

...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

Amy Jaffe

We really could have a very tight squeeze in October or November because we have no padding.

Dale Frink

We'll run (the outlet) on and off until November 1.

Donald Trump

This is our last time. November 8 [2016].

Stephen Rodrick

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

Chris Botti

They recalled all of our CDs. The week of Thanksgiving, all through November and December, there was no product in the stores.

Ken Simonson

Construction spending in November outpaced even the upwardly revised October and September totals.

Karen Hanretty

Everything that Nunez does between now and November should be put into the perspective of turning out votes in the special election.

Walt Frazier

Red would get in your face. But not in the press.

Bill Shankly

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roberta Anding

Just as there are more antioxidants in red wine versus Chardonnay, the same is true for beer.

Wendy Larry

I wish I had my red shoes on. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Charles Kennedy

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.