Council Quotes

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

Don't take too much council from your fears.

I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own." Yeah." Good. It's more familiar.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

Don't give up. Listen to others, but follow your own council.

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.

I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.

They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.