Restraint Quotations

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

Only such a householder who practices restraint in taking care of his family shall acquire family happiness and achieve higher social status.

I would encourage those who are affected by this to go to the Supreme Court and question this absolute prohibition, in effect, of 'no permit-no rally' because this goes beyond reasonable restraint for common good,

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

Showing restraint does not mean being soft or selling out the country,

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.

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

handled the incident with calmness and restraint and in accordance with international law and the provisions of relevant laws in China.

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

Frequently child passenger safety restraints are installed incorrectly or the child is placed in a child passenger restraint that is not appropriate for their age and size.

I believe that restraint in developing possible nuclear weapon delivery systems is in the long-term interest of India and the region,

China is deeply concerned about the confrontation. We hope that both sides will exercise restraint and not exacerbate the situation.

What is being done here on the basis of what we think is a very over-broad prior restraint is to forbid, in a way that no appellate court has ever upheld before, a distribution of intellectual information, intellectual knowledge, owned by the person who is distributing it.

If something does happen, there are some restraint moves they are taught.

If such an oil shock occurred, the risk of a hard landing would increase. Fed officials would be faced with conflicting objectives -- on one hand offsetting the restraint exerted by higher oil prices on economic activity, and on the other hand keeping inflationary expectations in check.

I'm amazed at the restraint (Davis) had. I'd like to put Stu Jackson or (NBA commissioner) David Stern in that situation and see how they'd react. He'd have been in a lot more trouble if he went home that night and hadn't done anything.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities -patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

The people have given us the duty to fend them and that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men, ... In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

Lloyd has no creative restraint whatsoever. He is almost creatively reckless.

Spending restraint was a major priority in the budget process, and the proof is in the pudding.

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

It is deeply regrettable that the Pakistani government has shown absolute disregard for the many direct appeals to exercise restraint and has willfully turned its back on the sincere efforts of the international community to encourage reason to prevail.

Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restraint, but what does it mean? If it means not acting as a check against majoritarian excesses or upholding constitutional rights against improper government action, then restraint is not something admirable.

Reports of a troop build up are a complete fabrication. We reject such statements in their totality and restraint should be exercised by the spokesman on the Pakistan side.

Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Pakistan has already made a proposal of strategic restraint regime in South Asia. These things can be discussed in the context of our proposal.

Our feeling is that because you have a new central banker, they are going to want to err on the side of restraint against inflation.

I think he's just wrong. Fortunately, our police showed, I think, very good restraint and discipline.

The president has been pleased with the restraint shown.

Unfortunately, restraint measures are sometimes necessary for certain students. While I'm not at liberty to discuss the details, I can say the level of force used was at the very low end of the force continuum.

To have an antitrust violation, you have to have a contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade." ()

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

We have urged both sides to exercise restraint and to avoid inflammatory actions that would heighten tensions and fuel a missile arms race. Missile tests would not be helpful to efforts to reduce tensions and build confidence through dialogue in South Asia.

That will require restraint and responsibility on all sides of this equation.

We hope that the alliance will observe its political and legal commitments in terms of military restraint when deciding on the deployment of the bases, and in particular the commitment not to deploy considerable combat forces in new member states.

We hope the relevant parties can exercise restraint and not take measures that will escalate the situation.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

The process is working, but we still have to judiciously select our new markets and the ones where we expand. It's a matter of timing and restraint to let the major competition get out of the marketplace.

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

restraint equals indulgence

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of (Iraq's) cultural heritage.

We oppose the demolition of homes of innocent Palestinians. We have registered our deep concern. We have made it clear that restraint is critical. And we've made it clear that innocent life has to be respected on both sides.

We ask all the parties to exercise restraint and we hope that they will do nothing that is detrimental to the resumption of the six-party talks.

We can't allow to pay ... with the blood of our people and the blood of our citizens for some illusion of stability or restraint in the Middle East,

This report confirms the dramatic improvement in the 2005 deficit picture that the administration reported last month, ... The president is committed to the combination of strong economic growth and spending restraint that will keep us on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009.

There has been this continual debate as to whether higher oil prices are inflationary or a restraint on growth. This year, the bond market has signaled that it is inflationary.

We understand their pain, but Muslims should channel their anger not by burning and pillaging, but by following the example of Prophet Muhammad himself, who urged restraint and calmness in the wake of provocation.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Too many youth have been injured in incidents with these techniques. While these holds may be appropriate for an adult population, experience has shown us that it is too easy to injure a young person when applying these holds. Physical restraint should be applied only to prevent a youth from hurting himself or others.

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Unions are asking for more, but we are still a long way from excessive demands. The wage restraint continues.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

Continued capacity restraint by the industry is resulting in a more stable price environment.

At the beginning of the year, there's a lot of talk about spending restraint and reducing the deficit. At the end of the year, that's all kind of forgotten.

As I see it, heightened job insecurity ... explains a significant part of the restraint on (wages), and the consequent muted price inflation, ... Surveys of workers have highlighted this extraordinary state of affairs.

I urge both police and demonstrators to remain calm and use restraint over the coming days,

To pursue or not to pursue is the discretion of the officer, ... The officer used restraint and good decision-making because he wasn't continuing the pursuit, and had he been going faster, it could have been a disaster. He terminated the pursuit when he came upon the horses.

As the talks are entering a sensitive phase, I appeal to all parties concerned to exercise utmost restraint on the ground.

The Secretary-General strongly urges the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to put an immediate halt to any actions that may be misinterpreted by the other side or jeopardize the security arrangements which they agreed to in the Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities of June 18, 2000.

The situation is not simple, ... You have to see the whole picture. That responsibility is on my shoulders. I want to tell you restraint is an element of strength.

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

We think such a position conveys on him certain responsibilities -- to exercise restraint where he has influence to prevent any further escalatory violence,

to show common sense and restraint and not to allow further escalation of the conflict.

U.N. forces are exercising maximum restraint in dealing with these attacks.

The government is concerned about the possibility of violence directed at Australians and we continue to urge restraint of all parties,

The president's insistence on spending restraint resulted in both the highway and energy bills coming in far less than originally proposed by Congress.

degree of restraint ... unmatched in the country

A typical economic recovery will see job growth north of 220,000 new jobs a month. And we've had very few months above that level. So, this job market looks stable, but not robust, and that is what will put restraint on the Fed in 2006.

Ambassador Holbrooke will convey to the authorities in Belgrade the necessity for full compliance with all of their commitments to the international community and for maximum restraint in the period leading up to the March 15 conference in France,

Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S. labor market and does not appear likely to be an important restraint to further recovery in employment,

People think of head restraints as headrests, but they're not. They're important safety devices. You're more likely to need the protection of a good head restraint in a collision than the other safety devices in your vehicle because rear-end collisions are so common.

There's no fiscal restraint right now. Nobody is even thinking about it.

There's no question in my mind that the police officers showed great restraint in this case.

We at the Federal Reserve, recognizing the powerful forces of productivity growth and global restraint on inflation, have not perceived to date the need to tighten policy,

This can be attributed to the slowdown and restraint ahead of the euro.