Statements Quotes - Page 24

• I'm going to make a guess, not a definitive statement, I would think if you had to make a decision like that [ completed the e-mail investigation on Hillary Clinton], you'd give it - you'd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldn't make it as the appointee of the new president.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Independent, Thinking, Giving

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

  Van Jones

  Keith, Congress, Bigs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Body Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, Nuclear, Use

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

  David Petraeus

  Government, President, Democracy

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• This statement, this transgression, this issue whereas if you look at the Fox News poll - CNN, ABC, NBC, everybody was there."CBS" polls, you see that Americans were very focused on jobs and the economy, health care, immigration, terrorism. I mean, the cues and clues to this election were right in front of him the whole time.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Jobs, Mean, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Believe, Law, Judging

  "Sotomayor hearings: The complete transcript, Part 1". latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Shoes, Political

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• It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

  Rakim

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.

  Rakim

  Fire, Perspective, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• My everyday look has definitely become more low maintenance, but accessories are everything. A structured bag, statement jewelry or a cute scarf can add polish to any outfit!

  Adriana Lima

  Cute, Everyday, Add

  Source: www.pretapregnant.com

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• Malcolm X felt that if he could make a public - a prominent public statement to show his fidelity to the Honorable Elijah Mohammad that that might win him back in the good graces of the organization.

  Manning Marable

  Winning, Organization, Grace

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

  St. Lucia

  Stress, Facts, Good Things

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Lindsey Graham, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They write that recent reports of Russian interference in our elections should alarm every American. They say Democrats and Republicans must work together to investigate this.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Writing, Leader, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think this is a scary thing [hacking] that does have to be taken out of a partisan context. And one of the best pieces of news this morning is a joint statement, Senator [Chuck] Schumer, Senator [Harry] Reid for the Democrats,John McCain and Lindsey Graham from the Republicans, saying we have to get to the bottom of this.

  E. J. Dionne

  Morning, Taken, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with "pelvic morality" as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to "preach the gospel to all nations", which means we do not just talk to ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Party, Mean

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

  Denzel Washington

  Strong Women, Fall, Feminism

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Voting, Demographics, Percent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption of the possibility of God and therefore the supernatural is not zero, and yours is.

  Richard Dawkins

  Zero, Differences, Challenges

  Source: inters.org

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• In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive statement saying that Hitler was someone we could really do business with and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agreement, Supportive, Munich

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States broke out in December 1941. And until then he was writing pretty supportive statements back stressing that we shouldn't be so hard on the Nazis if they were doing something we didn't agree with - basically repeating the idea that they were people we could do business with.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Stress, Writing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever religious text you're dealing with, why these statements are true.

  Peter Adamson

  Religious, Wind, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like that.

  Girl Talk

  Trying, Lyrical, Combination

  Source: uproxx.com

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• You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember when we were all sitting around on a roof one night and Larry turned to me and said, "You do know I'm gay, don't you?" There was a statement made. A declaration. We just never had really talked about it.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Night, Talking

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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