Asserted Quotations

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice.

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.

She asserted to him that U.S. administration will continue supporting the elected president and his policies.

Some have asserted that the proposal is just a weak compromise.We challenge this claim.

I resent that, ... I resent that. There was never any legal action or anything ever asserted in that manner.

I thought we played good team defense, we caused 28 turnovers and converted those takeaways into points. We came out and asserted ourselves and put the game away in third quarter.

It appears as though nobody has asserted themselves as the front-runner. Nobody has really stepped up and grabbed a hold of this thing yet. So, you look at the parity, one, and the fact that there doesn't appear to be a dominant team, two, it's wide open. Somebody is going to have to go on a run is what it boils down to.

We all operated on bad information. But the only ones who took the information that was most questionable and asserted it as fact were the administration.

We didn't establish ourselves in the second half. They really asserted themselves in the second half and we didn't. We played catch-up the rest of the half.

We didn't establish ourselves the second half. They came out and got two three-point plays. They asserted themselves and we didn't.

We're definitely going to miss Cody Stilts with his shooting. Cody was basically our best shooter all year. ... Justin Townsend really came on here at the end of the year and played real well for us. He definitely asserted himself and made a great player for us.

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

Everyone was talking about 'values voters' and how they asserted themselves, and it seemed like an opportunity to really do something that other news organizations weren't doing.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.

Amber always asserted to him that he was the only guy she was sleeping with during that time period so Anthony's never had any reason to question it. Anthony's big thing is that his reputation has been harmed. This poor guy can't go anywhere without people pointing at him.

There was a challenge issued between regulation and overtime and he felt like he (Williams) had something to prove. Marshall tried taking (Almond) away from the offense and Lorenzo asserted himself offensively.

There's no question in my mind that once we make the networks less secure because of CALEA, we will exploit that lack of security to intercept communications under every legal authority asserted by the government.

The White House asserted unfounded privileges that were later rejected in court, ... White House officials also conducted inadequate searches for documents and failed to make timely production of documents, including relevant e-mails.

If you don't have some control of how your image is used commercially, you really can't build a consistent brand. You're not a good steward. And for 55 years we never asserted any rights to that. In order to more consistently build our brand, we have to have control over the commercial use.

Their guards surprised us a little bit. We expected their guards to be the weak part of their team. But they came out and played strong. Their big guys came out and played strong, too. They asserted their size.

They've never before explicitly asserted that they need the authority to treat prisoners inhumanely. We can't think of any country in the world that has.

For example, they show... that the president didn't know about the Watergate break-in, as he always asserted (and) that throughout the second half of 1972 he repeatedly urged his aides not to cover up Watergate, as he always asserted.

It's true that a settlement was reached with the taxation office and the settlement was not, as asserted in the report, for 150 million,

It's a reality. It's going to be used in the office. ... I don't believe it will be a large enterprise solution, and I don't believe that Microsoft has asserted that they know how to get there.

The Privacy Report is devoid of any consideration of the costs of legislation in comparison to the asserted benefits of enhancing consumer confidence and allowing electronic commerce to reach its full potential,