Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Pickering

There is no plan, and there is no proposal, and there is no idea of committing American forces in Colombia to do anything but ... providing training.

Carlos Salinas

I can't see how the U.S. can possibly certify Colombia on human rights grounds or any other grounds.

Raul Reyes

The government of Colombia and even the United States do the same thing, ... If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail. Here we don't have jails, so we detain people.

Luis Restrepo

Our main concern at this time is to gain trust. Colombia can't take any more setbacks.

Madeline Albright

Coming on the eve of that country's congressional and presidential elections, the waiver decision is intended to lay the groundwork for increased future cooperation and to support those in Colombia who are striving to strengthen the rule of law and buttress their embattled democracy,

Neena Moorjani

This is not unusual. Just in the past few months, we've postponed rounds with Ecuador three times, Panama twice and Colombia once.

Jan Schakowsky

If you look at the U.S. government data, our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much cocaine in the United States as there was 6 years ago.

Joe O'Keefe

Slovakia was a successful reformer, as was Colombia (even though) they have a low per-capita income,

Anne Patterson

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

Joanne Mariner

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

Irene Khan

You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released.

Made Pastika

So far the detained terrorists do not know them.

Jose Serrano

Nobody knows how many people are being detained now. Nobody knows if we are targeting an ethnic community,

Ricardo Lagos

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

Amanda Vanstone

Fourteen were detained and will be escorted to Baxter Immigration Detention Facility while arrangements are made for their departure,

Patrick Corbett

Trust me you don't want to be detained in Saudi Arabia.

Michael Lehnert

We still have three individuals who are hard-core. While they are eating, they are fasting. All detainees are drinking. All detainees have eaten meals.

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.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Trai Byers

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Carlos Slim

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

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".

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.