Council Quotes · Page 2

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

— Ralph Nader

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

— Orson Pratt

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They…

— Sal Albanese

Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me,…

— Jeaniene Frost

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we…

— Black Kettle

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of…

— Samuel Johnson

I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'…

— Jacque Fresco

The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the…

— George H. W. Bush

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty…

— Evangeline Lilly

If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like…

— Cassandra Clare

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much…

— Florence Ellinwood Allen

Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid…

— Richard Armitage

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of…

— Benjamin Franklin

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political…

— Jacques Delors

If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of…

— John Bolton

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world…

— Vladimir Putin

The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security…

— Chuck Hagel

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection…

— Gisela Stuart

During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council…

— William Scranton

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential…

— George Washington

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save…

— Abraham Clark

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

— Mary Doria Russell

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

— Noam Chomsky

The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the…

— Jean-Claude Trichet