Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Kasper

Regardless of what this legislation as a whole will cost, the idea is that it is going to save us money in the end. What illegal immigration costs us each year is overwhelming. That is something we can all agree on.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

Regarding this joint venture, we have reached a basic agreement. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia.

Tom Daschle

reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.

David Stern

Realm Realty is agreeable to the 'right in and right out' restriction and is awaiting the county's comments to that drawing. I would think that a deceleration lane, right in - right out, headache bar and sidewalk should appease most everyone. We do appreciate all the input we have received and have diligently worked to try to incorporate many of these suggestions.

Barham Saleh

Regrettably we were not able to reach a draft we could all agree on.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Jamie Drummond

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair made great progress and Gordon Brown and John Snow agreed on an excellent proposal for debt cancellation for many of the poorest countries.

Tom Daschle

President Bush and I both support a tax cut and I am confident that we can agree on a plan that benefits all Americans, not just the wealthy.

Phil Fontaine

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Marla Crago

Patients who come in asking about this treatment are usually at the end of their rope. This is a good last resort for people like Alicia and it's a good first line of defense.

Gene Russianoff

Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.

Kathleen Blanco

Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,

Steve Brozak

Our military is being stretched too thin, to the point of being broken for the foreseeable future. We are asking too much and not giving enough, and we are certainly not any safer than before September 11.

Cindy Morrison

People have been calling, asking all kinds of questions about the weekend, which is great. With the nice weather we're getting, I have good reason to believe everything is going to be fabulous.

Denise Barrett

People have been calling and asking about replanting to replace the trees that were destroyed. They looked at what trees did well and which would hold up better next time.

Eric Swensen

People have been asking our guys to compete in these tournaments. I think the program has a reputation.

Dennis Hastert

Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree,

Jeff Burton

Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.

Tony Blair

Robin was an outstanding, extraordinary talent - brilliant, incisive in debate, of incredible skill and persuasive power,

Laura Bullock

It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Ann Richards

I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,

Paul Lopez

It gives the debate a megaphone, it gives the march a megaphone.

Luis Macas

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

Kunda Dixit

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

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.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Dan Scott

Our members are hopped up and very angry.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

Steve MacFarlane

Our members know that working for Northwest Airlines, they have to have a strike fund.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Ken Williams

I still have 17 pieces of shrapnel in my neck.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Eddie Carbone

She puts all the pieces together. I promote the tournament, work with the players. She runs the tournament.

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Bob Elliston

Our old surface required significant repairs during the off-season. That's a process that can take several weeks. We don't have to do that now. The surface maintains its uniformity.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Valery Nesterov

It is an unpleasant episode, but the IPO preparation process is not going to stop because of it.

Stephen Moore

It is an ugly bill. This is the legislative process at its worst.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Jim Robb

I think this will keep that process on hold.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Alberto Fujimori

It is my purpose to remain temporarily in Chile, as part of the process for my return to Peru,

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Berkeley Breathed

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

Candice Wiggins

I think my first realization of that was at Texas Tech.

Dante Hall

I am in and out of Texas all the time.

Christopher Cagan

I feel Texas is going to come out of this pretty well.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Bonnie Henrickson

Hopefully, we can get more out there for the Texas game.

Bill Hicks

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

Bill Hicks

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

Chris Cornell

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

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.