Invitation Quotations | Page 2

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.

The invitation said Palm Beach chic. What does that mean? I brought three different outfits and I was peeking out my window to see what people were wearing. I went with the colorful one.

I'm excited the committee will see first hand the impact on Louisiana's coast. We are willing to do our share to supply the nation's energy needs, but in return we need the nation's help to rebuild the damage to our coastline. I am thrilled the committee has accepted my invitation to see firsthand the critical roll that Louisiana's ports and industry play in supplying our nation's energy needs.

I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, or if they were intimidated or if they were coerced, that they can come to us, ... Face the Nation.

I know that he has said things in the past that have been offensive to some groups of people - gays, in particular to Jews. But I think that the invitation from the Nation of Islam to Jews and to gays may be a step in the right direction. I took it as such.

I knew they were coming here for training camp. He is my favorite basketball player -- smart, intelligent. And he's a good person. For Kobe to accept my invitation is greatly appreciated.

I have not received any invitation for any round table conference but I have come to know through media that it is going to be held in New Delhi.

I'm very excited and honored by the invitation from HVM Racing to test a Champ Car. The opportunity to drive one of the world's fastest and most powerful race cars is a dream come true for me and I am really looking forward to getting behind the wheel.

I'm told it was the best between St. Louis and San Francisco. It was something to get an invitation to that ball.

I remember that the PGA of Australia were one of the first to extend a sponsors' invitation to me when I was struggling back in 1997-98 and I am glad to be able to repay their support after the most exciting year of my career to date,

In a couple of months time after the girls have settled back in Australia we'll be extending an invitation for them to come to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra so they can undergo intensive daily physiotherapy,

If there is an invitation and there's a purpose for doing something, then we might consider it.

He said he didn't get an invitation to the Super Bowl until a month ago and he'd planned to have those visitors. Maybe he would have gone if he'd been invited earlier. Of course, maybe he wouldn't have.

I'd rather have had a go then not made the cut and finished poorly than just sat back and turned the invitation down because I'd have already been wondering but now I know.

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

I feel better for not going to Acapulco, but I had hoped to be better prepared by this stage... It would be a shame to use an invitation if I am not yet in the best physical condition.

Come do more. Our invitation is just that. At this point, we say to students, if you think nothing is getting done, then come and do something. If people come and are willing to be dedicated, we are convinced we can get things done.

He also extended to her an invitation to stay in a University residence when she came to Charlottesville to deliver her statement to the commonwealth's attorney.

This is our invitation to come see what we're all about. We're not putting on any special programs, we're just reaching out to all of our listed members and inviting the general public back to our churches. We must continue to grow in our relationships with God to understand what he wants of us.

This is my home turf. I'm from Worthington, my daughter plays junior varsity at Thomas and (Thomas coach Joe Abraham) and I are longtime friends. They were nice enough to extend an invitation to us.

a kind invitation to consider it as a final version.

A guest worker program would be an open invitation to potential terrorists. They could enter the country legally, get a job, and use the program as cover. One of the terrorists who blew up the garage of the World Trade Center in 1993 did just that under an earlier program.

And I think we're deserving of being there. I think our program is one of the top ones in Texas. When we got the invitation I called a staff meeting and asked our coaches why we shouldn't go to this event, and no one could come up with a reason why not. It's going to be an opportunity our kids may never have another chance to do.

The LPGA has recommended and we agree that the non-LPGA members who achieve the same level of success as LPGA members should be eligible to be considered for an invitation to participate. Now, amateurs or non-LPGA members who record a top-five finish in a woman's major championship will be eligible to be invited to the following year's Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation

I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

These are trips not initiated by me; these are trips that other people think will be helpful. For every invitation I've accepted, I've turned down 100.

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, "I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;" implying that he would accept no favor which he could not repay