Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Newman

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

Wayne Clough

Our search has been thorough and complete. Every name was put into a pot, and Dan was unanimously chosen. There was a strong pool of candidates for this position. We have left no stone unturned and have considered candidates from around the nation, from a range of institutions and from nontraditional sources.

Cyrus Mehri

Our focus for the future is OK; now we've improved the process -- minority candidates are in the room being interviewed. Our next question is, when the doors close, and the owner makes the decision, who's in that inner circle?

Craig McDonald

Overall, I think the voters spoke pretty loudly that they like the independence of their own hand-picked candidates over a billionaire from San Antonio.

Karen Roberts

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

Piero Grasso

Making those under investigation candidates could send a message that the mafia appreciates, a message of impunity, a challenge to the justice system.

Rudi Giuliani

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

Regina Lewis

It is a more personal medium than a lot of people give it credit for. Keep in mind, you are six inches from your computer. You are very focused. The candidates have one shot to make an impression.

Jack Siedlecki

I think there?s a lot of viable candidates and a lot of times they look at somebody that?s done more, shown more ... It?s a real commitment for a kid, in the short term, to come back for a fifth year. And I think that makes an impression on (the players).

Rich Irr

Rebounding is all about will. At halftime, I challenged our kids' will.

Curt Fredrickson

Regis has an outstanding three-point shooting team. It will be a real challenge for us to get out to that three-point line and guard their shooters.

Steve Sampson

Our players have had the challenge of, like every other club in the country, to meet the physical challenges of travel and on many occasions, Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday games,

John Schafer

Parking can be a challenge downtown, so we thought why not encourage mass-transit use.

Maribeth Smith

Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Terry Hoeppner

Payton is a guy with great potential. He'll challenge for a spot. He'll give us that quality depth, at least.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Karl Swanson

Pictures didn't do it real justice. It was all gone. It wasn't just partially burnt, it was all gone.

Bruce Hahn

We've talked to Justice, and we think what they're doing is tremendous.

C. S. Lewis

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

Benjamin Rush

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Antonia Fraser

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Antonia Fraser

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

Ron Myers

I think there's been a travesty of justice in my son's sentencing.

Antoine Fuqua

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

Daniel Radcliffe

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

David Chase

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

James Carafano

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

Gerald Celente

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Charlie Cyr

Regardless how you feel about the (immigration) issue, there's a message to be sent.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

C. S. Lewis

Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

Stuart Smith

I think there's a message permeating to just watch any over-exuberance with the resources stocks.

Allen Adamson

I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.

Jim Tressel

That would have been the wrong message to send to Justin,

Phil Goff

That's the sad message that will be taken,

Matthew Rees

I was overwhelmed with messages of support I received from people around the rugby world. Sometimes you take it for granted, but I can't thank people enough for how much they supported me.

Pierre Littbarski

I won't be saying anything different to them. The message is the same for everybody. We are here to play football, not to concede yellow cards.

Lori Glass

Some have wives or girlfriends that say 'Don't send me roses,' though they specify they want at least one rose.

Dee Brown

That's the way the tournament goes. Wherever they send you, you've just got to go and play.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.