Famous Quotes & Sayings

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Sylvia Schenk

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

Ryan Toohey

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Iyad Allawi

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

George Marek

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Isiah Thomas

Other than David Robinson I don't know if I've met a classier individual in the NBA.

Michael Goulde

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot. This gives David the slingshot.

Michael Goulde

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot, ... This gives David the slingshot.

Mark Granger

We need some other guys to step up to help David out.

E. Hurley

I think David is at peace with his own game now. He was too worried about himself and worried about others. He's a very quiet kid who doesn't say much. Maybe early on, he wasn't comfortable being a leader. But I think he feels good about who he is right now.

Norman Lear

I think David E. Kelley, with his new deal, is vastly underpaid,

Kurt Melton

I think David (Bendall) did a nice job defensively on him.

Phil Morrison

My mother and Myra Doernberg, the mother of our production designer, David Doernberg, were the utility infielders on the team,

Jack Roberts

It doesn't feel like we're Goliath, it feels like we're David in this matter.

Dianna Booher

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling. ... An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Peggy Kerns

States are doing this for two reasons. They want to be ethical institutions, and they want the skeptical public to view them as ethical institutions.

Sen. Langhorst

It gives the public a better way to judge whether they think there's ethical conflict.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Don Seymour

John Boehner has ties to K Street, but they're ethical ones.

Peter Butler

I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,

Kelly McBride

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Bill Clinton

Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Ben Bernanke

Roger made invaluable contributions to the Federal Reserve and to the country.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

George H. W. Bush

I think the most important thing government can do is provide flexibility for federal monies.

Orrin Hatch

I think he'd stop everything else if he could just sit down with the former president, ... If he could just sit down and talk to him.

Dave Hollenbeck

I thought it was good for our kids to come out with the intensity they showed. We got in the passing lanes, and obviously, our size was a factor. The kids want to play well in front of some of the former Gaels.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Jason Rostorfer

He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wrestler who former standout wrestler Greg Murphy took under his wing when Josh was a freshman. Josh worked hard in the weight room with Murphy and he is living proof that hard work pays off.

Ed Gillespie

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

H. Hunt

Get referrals from your former clients, and even join their organizations so that those members can be your clients.

Charles Greene

Former workers are most at risk for asbestos exposure.

John Fortier

Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.

Katie Couric

But first this is the President's seventh, seventh trip to the hurricane zone and the former oilman is getting a real firsthand look at the devastation that's there.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

John Prescott

Our primary responsibility ... is to do everything possible to provide the highest level of protection to the public.

Tom Daschle

Our right to privacy is at risk. As a result, some of our most sensitive, private matters end up on databases that are then sold to the highest bidder. That is wrong, it's dangerous, and it has to stop.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Jim Tharp

That's the highest percentage of women I can ever remember for one of our films. Clearly, we needed more romantic-minded men to show up.

John Beilein

I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt, and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I think that's probably the highest score I could have for the way I'm playing.

Bonnie Warschauer

KFC uses only the highest quality ingredients in all the meals we freshly prepare in our restaurant kitchens.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Zhang Qiyue

Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Vernon Geberth

That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.

Cindy Sheehan

I think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.

Adrian Edwards

It is not the U.N.'s wish to have these barricades and things in place, however, as part of security provisions for doing our work here, they have been necessary in the past.

Charles Ruff

It is neither necessary nor appropriate for the president to testify.

Christian Louboutin

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Jay Wright

He just did what was necessary to win the game. And having that weapon is valuable.

Brian Cashman

He's got time to do what's necessary to get us where we need to be.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Amanda Schull

If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up.

Kevin Lowery

Our roots are here. We're not going anywhere.

Billy Corgan

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Bharati Mukherjee

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Jonathan Vilma

That's them being selfish. I don't care. As long as my teammates aren't rooting for us to lose, I'm fine.

Shani Davis

I'm still rooting for him. He is an American.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

John Catsimatidis

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

Bob Mason

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.

Warren Sapp

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

Charles Jennings

We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

Charles Kennedy

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Carson Kressley

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

David Nicholls

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.