Forceful Quotations

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.

The only thing that is going to be said here is we feel we did something we had to do as a football team, and we're going to put this behind us and move forward. We don't like to do disciplinary actions. But sometimes that's what the world is all about. If you are going to have rules ... you have to be forceful in terms of how you apply them.

I would not say necessarily as forceful as Senator Levin just put it,

Funds believe that if they fail to mount a forceful response to News Corp, their credibility in other contests will be shot,

From passing the city's first earned income tax credit to launching the structural unemployment initiative, Gifford has been a forceful advocate in getting results for the most vulnerable New Yorkers,

He was a forceful advocate for causes he believed in, ... Sometimes he regarded himself as the conscience of the University.

He's already told us that he's going to be forceful and preemptive in rate hikes. And so this is basically an exclamation point . . . all it simply does is reaffirm what he has already said: higher rates.

He's being as forceful as he can be, given the circumstances.

Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... He's been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.

We're very proud of the work she's done for this party and the work she's done for the DNC. We think she's a very forceful advocate for Latinos and her district. We had a place in the program for her to speak, but we respect her decision to decline. She may still change her mind, though it doesn't seem likely, and we're moving along with our program.

We need to redouble our effort, additional resources must be mobilized and more forceful measures taken.

We hope protests are carried out in a peaceful way, but if they are not, we are prepared to give wrongdoers a forceful response.

We've said from the beginning we'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be,

The rate argument is coming back in a very forceful manner.

We still have a serious problem of piracy. We need to study more forceful and effective measures to curb it.

We disagreed more than we agreed on the issues, ... But it was always a collegial, colorful and forceful debate.

There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected.

We'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be, ... They have a right to protest, we respect their right to protest, we have every intention of allowing them to do that, as long as it doesn't interfere with the parade itself or the events that are associated with it.

Be very forceful in communicating whether you want to be notified if there is a change of condition and they'll be transporting your relative somewhere, whether it's day or night. Advance directives are always helpful, but I've seen patients with these and sometimes the dots don't get connected.

The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer,

We should all oppose acts of encroachment on other countries' sovereignty, forceful interference in a country's internal affairs, and willful use or threat of military force,

We've had some forceful statements from within OPEC. The possibility of OPEC releasing further oil in October under the price band mechanism prompted a degree of profit taking this morning.

People don't see what an incredible will he has. There's a lot of leaders that are good who are not able to kind of get the message across, bend people to his will. I think that Baron has an amazing and infectious gift that he can come into a locker room and really make people believe and really make people better. I think people have seen him have fun with the game, but they haven't seen the kind of forceful personality he has.

They were less forceful in their rhetoric and that shows a little light at the end of the tunnel, ... Clearly they're at a point where what they say is more important than what they do and that's playing itself out in the equity markets.

This is an exciting time for the Rockets. He will become one of the great players in NBA history. He's got the size, intelligence, youth, and quickness to be a phenomenal, forceful player in the league.

This is an exciting time for the Rockets. Yao is going to be a part of the Rockets for a long time. I feel he'll become one of the great players in NBA history. He's got the size, intelligence, youth, and quickness to be a phenomenal, forceful player in the league.

In August, he was alert and forceful and argumentative, as always, ... needed a lot of help to get up to greet me. I'm not sure he could recognize me.

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

It's unclear whether he would be as committed (as Hashimoto) and as forceful on fiscal consolidation. Hashimoto has a past record to go on. So for Koizumi, there's a question mark there as well.

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.

The message was certainly delivered in forceful terms that this was certainly not a useful thing.

In the past, I proved my ability to conduct forceful negotiations with the Palestinians. I laid down a principle which is known to you all -- the principle of reciprocity. They give, they get. If they don't give, they won't get.

He's the best salesperson for this approach to immigration, because he's such a forceful person, because he's a border state Republican who clearly understands these issues.

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.

It is time for the United States, as the sole recognized intermediary, to consider more forceful action for peace. The rest of the world will welcome this leadership.

I can assure you that the demonstrators had a number of agent provocateurs who were anything but peaceful and that our security personnel acted with great restraint, acting forceful only when forced to do so by the mob,

I don't think that we could be any more forceful in asserting that the election did not meet international standards.