Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Our military is being held hostage by this issue, Arctic drilling.

Neil Shubin

Outside, it's a classic Arctic scene. But inside those rocks is a tropical world.

Lisa Renstrom

Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilderness area. Showing great independence, Rep. Johnson has led the effort in the House to block efforts to use the budget process to open up the refuge to oil and gas exploration. Her leadership has been indispensable to the millions of Americans who place a priority on safeguarding our environment and protecting America?s great wilderness areas.

Carl Pope

We need an honest, balanced energy plan that gives us cleaner, cheaper and safer energy solutions and protects spectacular wild places like the Arctic Refuge and America?s fragile coasts.

Gennaro Castaldo

The Arctic Monkeys have connected with the mainstream in one leap. This is an outstanding figure as January is a quiet time of the year for sales.

Hillary Clinton

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

John Burnside

I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

Rodger Schlickeisen

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

Siouxsie Sioux

I don't care about champagne backstage or anything else - the one thing I need to specify is that I can't have any Arctic drafts on stage.

Orrin Hatch

Regenerative medicine is pro-life and pro-family. It enhances, it does not diminish human life. ... If encouraged to flourish, it can improve the life of millions of Americans and could lead to new scientific frontiers not now in sight. So I urge my colleagues in the Senate and the American public to support this bill that opposes human cloning but promotes regenerative medicine using nuclear transplantation.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Regardless of when the vote takes place, the government will continue to make the greatest efforts in getting the bill through, ... Whatever happens, it's only a matter of days.

Tim Johnson

President Bush has stated that the patients' bill of rights legislation ... is dead on arrival, ... If the president can't bring himself to sign a true patients' bill of rights, then he should let it become law without his signature just as he did when he was governor of Texas.

Dick Gephardt

President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.

Bob Bennett

President Bill Clinton has less rights than any citizen of the United States,

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Marsha Blackburn

Our nationwide hearings made it clear that Americans considered border security a matter of national security and this bill reflects that fact.

Jim Cooper

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Tom DeLay

Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,

Jarvis Cocker

Part of what tonight is about is to keep the spirit of John Peel alive. To seek out new music and champion new talent.

David Lapworth

Our objective is to find another Subaru world champion and we'll do all that we can to help Chris and Stephane reach that goal.

Nathan Vader

Our main goal is to be league champions and then win sections. I think we're always in contention for a league title. This year, I feel we definitely have a good chance.

David Murray

Our revenue benefited from ... Champions League football, but we have, at the same time, controlled costs so that much of our increased revenue has come through as profit in this six-month period.

John Ferguson

Robbie evolved into one of the top performers for the NCAA champions this season and we are delighted to have him on board.

Julius Erving

I'm here to watch the watch the champions and the would-be champions.

Gerard Houllier

I think the title is won. We can become champions in front of our television sets next weekend.

Li Na

It is a surprise to win in the National Games. It's my honor to compete with Olympic champions and world champions. I am so lucky today,

Joe Calzaghe

Jeff is on the way up. You can't say that he's a champion that's on the fade, ... He's made some excellent defenses, he's a big puncher, a good all-around fighter.

Richard Boucher

Reconstruction work is not possible while the fighting is going on or while the insurgents have been in charge of the town. But once it's back in government hands, we'll be able to get on with these projects very quickly.

Denise Bottcher

Reinforces the notion that she's not in charge and LA (Louisiana) needs to be federalized.

Joseph Annotti

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.

David House

Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.

Bonnie Musfelt

People just don't realize, yeah, we get charged for this stuff.

Karl Rove

People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States' government that's in charge of security.

Owen Davis

Staples no longer charges these shipping damage fees and hasn't done so since May 2002. The issue is solely about whether Staples must be registered to sell the shipping damage coverage as regulated by the state insurance code.

Avery Johnson

Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly.

R. Robinson

Robinson later retracted his insane cannibalism charge ? but said that he stands ''behind everything else I wrote without reservation.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Mike Barnett

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Toba Beta

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Peter Budaj

Starting with me and everybody else, I don't think we put out the effort that was good enough for a win.

Li Zhaoxing

Some people are disappointed with the outcome of meetings, which was not as substantial as they have expected, ... However, we should highly value efforts made by all sides in this process.

Carl Jacobs

Our results have been worthy of an 'A,' but our effort has been on the 'C' level. We've jumped out to big leads, then other teams back in.

David Kirkland

Our team is extremely young and we're so thin in depth. However, I'm proud of their effort tonight. If you take away a handful of plays, the scoreboard would have read something else.

Damarius Bilbo

That's a typical Calvin Johnson day. I just had to give him an outlet.

Rick Carlisle

Johnson played great. We did a lot of different things on him defensively, but he was able to get shots or get teammates shots.

Chris Pardue

Johnson is really a good, tough back. If you don't wrap him up, he just keeps going.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Graeme Smith

We are always going to put the pressure on the likes of (Shane) Watson and Johnson and Lewis.

Clint Hill

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Steve Wood

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Kunihiro Hatae

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

John Tortorella

Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Tom Ridge

I think they moved as quickly as they could,

Andrew Heyward

That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

Fidel Castro

I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Jim Peters

Nancy and I want to travel on our own time.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Alan Nunnelee

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

John Mansell

This particular Olympics does have a lot of disappointments, and there's no big Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan story line.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Gilles Duceppe

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Adam Weishaupt

Illuminate the opposition.

Brian Peterson

We've not run into very much opposition at all. Most people have been very supportive of the project.

Frank Harris

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We view the Party of Regions as an opposition party.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Mattias Norstrom

With the new rules, if you've got the puck with some speed, it's tough for the opposition to stop you.

Dave O'Brien

I have seen more opposition to this than any other thing I ever worked on.

Pallam Raju

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Brian Billick

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple.

Robert Rankin

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

Allard Baird

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

Michael Manning

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

Gary Thompson

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

Cindy Miller

He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.

Harry Pachon

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

Carla Bruni

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Donald Trump

Republicans have not won the state of Pennsylvania and look what you have. You're companies are all gone. Your jobs are all gone. You haven't won the state of Pennsylvania in 28 years.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

John Muir

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

John Bright

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Jim Fowler

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Theodore Roosevelt

The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.

Russell Brand

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

Steve Irwin

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

Steve Irwin

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.