Council Quotes

Council Quote of the day

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

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 on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

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

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.