Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
~By James Randi ~
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
~By James Collins ~
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
~By Jim Wallis ~
It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.
~By Helen Suzman ~
I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
~By Joan Blades ~
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
~By Otto Schily ~
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
~By Daniel Ellsberg ~
But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
~By Bode Miller ~
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.
~By Angela Merkel ~
I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
~By Tommy Franks ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
There is no longer time for statements like "if only" or "we can't." We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.
~By Bob Riley ~
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~By Bill Gates ~
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
~By Max Planck ~
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
~By Gina Gershon ~
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
~By Franz Marc ~
I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
~By John Podesta ~
I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
~By Hans Frank ~
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.
~By Louis Stokes ~
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
~By David Gower ~
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
~By Stephen Douglas ~
The media's job is to question a premise.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
~By Pete Seeger ~
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.
~By John Boehner ~
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
~By Roland Allen ~
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.
~By Johannes Stark ~
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
~By Alex Campbell ~
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.
~By Hart Crane ~
I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
~By Paul McCartney ~
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
~By John Simon ~
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
~By William H. Seward ~
If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
~By Rob Walton ~
I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
~By Ted Williams ~
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
~By Michael Behe ~
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
~By e. e. cummings ~
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
~By Vicente Aleixandre ~
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
~By Barry Gibb ~
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~By John J. Sirica ~
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.
~By Julian Assange ~
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
~By Edith Stein ~
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
~By George Wald ~
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.
~By Rupert Grint ~
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.
~By Michael Novak ~
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
~By Oscar Levant ~
We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
~By Laurel Clark ~
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question.
~By Stephen Harper ~
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
~By Warren Beatty ~
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
~By Robert Stone ~
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
~By Herman Gorter ~
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~By Lillian Smith ~
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~By Richard Bach ~
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
~By Roger Ebert ~
It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
~By George Foreman ~
And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
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