Bill Nelson quote: "[Nelson said it's a complex issue to understand.] Senator Kerry understands foreign relations inside and out, ... And when you're dealing with these governments, it's often the subtle hint, the nuance, the cock of the head, all the kind of messages that you send...."

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and...
BILL NELSON

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
BILL NELSON

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a ...
BILL NELSON

that will ensure that the Congress and the people get an honest budget request.
BILL NELSON

There has been an ignoring and a starving of NASA for funds by the administration, and this isn't a ...
BILL NELSON

Remember, we had three very rude visitors this year:ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â Katrina, Rita and Wilma, ... T...
BILL NELSON

We proposed this when I was insurance commissioner, but you couldn't get the Alabama Legislature and...
BILL NELSON

The first year after [President John] Kennedy announced the Apollo program, the NASA budget was doub...
BILL NELSON

I think the deciding factor is going to be the savings to the American taxpayer,
BILL NELSON

It's going to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars savings to the American taxpayers,
BILL NELSON

I think NASA is now going to accelerate the replacement vehicle so that it's ready by 2010,
BILL NELSON

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
BILL NELSON

we were not prepared for the occupation.
BILL NELSON

that I can't filibuster.
BILL NELSON

The fundamental issue appears that the Defense Department believes it is not only legal but accepted...
BILL NELSON

They intend to come after me with a vengeance.
BILL NELSON

It will pass. But it won't pass with my vote.
BILL NELSON

Congress took an important first step last year by passing an anti-spam law, but we need to toughen ...
BILL NELSON

make sure the administration comes forth with specific goals and benchmarks and timetables as to wha...
BILL NELSON

more than a leader in preservation in Northeast Florida. She is a recognized leader in preserving la...
BILL NELSON

[Lawmakers in both houses of Congress describe Griffin in glowing terms, and his popularity smoothed...
BILL NELSON

It's a long time before the election, and I don't take any numbers seriously this early, ... It's go...
BILL NELSON

It's becoming clearer and clearer that the president and members of his administration have misinfor...
BILL NELSON

I am convinced that the nation requires more than one Atlantic coast naval station capable of home-p...
BILL NELSON

It was almost 17 years to the day that we have this additional tragedy. America will come back and w...
BILL NELSON

That means that a physician could determine that a woman could be paralyzed for life and it would no...
BILL NELSON

What we can conclude is more work needs to be done.
BILL NELSON

I wouldn't anticipate any decisions about that for a long time.
BILL NELSON

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body i...
BILL NELSON

What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
BILL NELSON

It takes the will of the American people to say there is going to be a different way.
BILL NELSON

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
BILL NELSON

Our nation recommitted itself to making manned space flight as safe as possible after the Challenger...
BILL NELSON

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.
BILL NELSON

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. Retiring an aircraft ...
BILL NELSON

We had to do our own thing because Florida happened to be hit with Andrew, ... Well, maybe they'll t...
BILL NELSON

Almost all of the Gulf of Mexico off of the state of Florida is restricted airspace; it's where we t...
BILL NELSON

Remember, we had three very rude visitors this year: Katrina, Rita and Wilma, ... That has disrupte...
BILL NELSON

My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.
BILL NELSON

Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez.
BILL NELSON

There was a negative, visceral reaction against the overzealousness -- the mean-spiritedness -- that...
BILL NELSON

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to p...
BILL NELSON

She has an extremist's position,
BILL NELSON

They do this double game because they've got this constituency that is so inflammable and can rise u...
BILL NELSON

The ESOP was the way to go because it had distinct tax advantages, and it allowed a smooth and predi...
BILL NELSON

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
BILL NELSON

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wish...
BILL NELSON

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and t...
BILL NELSON

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now hav...
BILL NELSON

The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a privat...
BILL NELSON

Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a respons...
BILL NELSON

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.
BILL NELSON

I got into the best shape of my life at age 44. I was on top of everything and quick mentally.
BILL NELSON

Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.
BILL NELSON

The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.
BILL NELSON

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.
BILL NELSON

I'm for the constitutional right to bear arms. I'm a hunter, and so is my son.
BILL NELSON

The Senate has a constitutional responsibility to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court, and I take th...
BILL NELSON

I'm going to make up my own mind as to what I think is in the best interest of our country and F...
BILL NELSON

Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against...
BILL NELSON

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and...
BILL NELSON

The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.
BILL NELSON

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
BILL NELSON

Exercise is just part of my life.
BILL NELSON

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
NELSON DEMILLE

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
WILLIE NELSON

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
WILLIE NELSON

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
WILLIE NELSON

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning ...
WILLIE NELSON

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes...
WILLIE NELSON

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.
WILLIE NELSON

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.
WILLIE NELSON

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you...
WILLIE NELSON

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
WILLIE NELSON

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
WILLIE NELSON

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
WILLIE NELSON

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who...
WILLIE NELSON

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to ...
WILLIE NELSON

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met...
WILLIE NELSON

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb an...
WILLIE NELSON

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybod...
WILLIE NELSON

England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...
TED NELSON

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowe...
TED NELSON

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -...
TED NELSON

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
TED NELSON

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I...
TED NELSON

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted i...
TED NELSON

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th...
TED NELSON

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ide...
TED NELSON

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
TED NELSON

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the stru...
TED NELSON

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
TED NELSON

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...
NELSON MANDELA

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organizati...
NELSON MANDELA

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
NELSON MANDELA

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
NELSON MANDELA

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will...
NELSON MANDELA

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had un...
NELSON MANDELA

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
NELSON MANDELA

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...
NELSON MANDELA

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhun...
NELSON MANDELA

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a ...
NELSON MANDELA

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
NELSON MANDELA

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
NELSON MANDELA

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
NELSON MANDELA

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not k...
NELSON MANDELA

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of cou...
NELSON MANDELA

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who...
NELSON MANDELA

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitte...
NELSON MANDELA

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppressi...
NELSON MANDELA

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of ...
NELSON MANDELA

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happi...
NELSON MANDELA

We can't afford to be killing one another.
NELSON MANDELA

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we...
NELSON MANDELA

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the ta...
NELSON MANDELA

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including ...
NELSON MANDELA

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freed...
NELSON MANDELA

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so ...
NELSON MANDELA

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyer...
NELSON MANDELA

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...
NELSON MANDELA

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example...
NELSON MANDELA

You know, you can only lead them from behind.
NELSON MANDELA

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will re...
NELSON MANDELA

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the...
NELSON MANDELA

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
NELSON MANDELA

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the mom...
NELSON MANDELA

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan...
NELSON MANDELA

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
NELSON MANDELA

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
NELSON MANDELA

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ...
NELSON MANDELA

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
NELSON MANDELA

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
NELSON MANDELA

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
NELSON MANDELA

There is no such thing as part freedom.
NELSON MANDELA

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
NELSON MANDELA

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challen...
NELSON MANDELA

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
NELSON MANDELA

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
NELSON MANDELA

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's ve...
NELSON MANDELA

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United State...
NELSON MANDELA

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
NELSON DEMILLE

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.
WILLIE NELSON

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Tw...
NELSON MANDELA

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident...
NELSON MANDELA

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
NELSON MANDELA

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
NELSON BOSWELL

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that...
NELSON ALGREN

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. Bu...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs ...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benef...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced t...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER

They just wrestled up to their potential.
AL NELSON

It's the best thing we ever did. We are really proud of what we do. We feel we are part of a team wi...
AL NELSON

It's as important to know what not to say to them.
AL NELSON

It meant a lot to us to have friends with us at a time like that.
AL NELSON

It could be an hour or it could be seven hours. Every situation is different.
AL NELSON

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
BYRON NELSON

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON

It's pretty much the same as spray paint. I think a lot of the student groups think it's the same as...
ALAN NELSON

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelm...
ALAN NELSON

Disparities in the health care delivered to racial and ethnic minorities are real and are associated...
ALAN NELSON

It is a neat deal so people don't drive their car. We will have three drivers on New Year's Eve, and...
ALAN NELSON

I felt some balls were dropped. We wanted ... to make people know it was largely their fault.
ALAN NELSON

There was definitely a flaw in leadership.
ALAN NELSON

We intend to vigorously defend the charges and we deny all of the allegations.
ALAN NELSON

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mis...
KNUTE NELSON

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still tradition...
PAULA NELSON

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...
HORATIO NELSON

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can lov...
NELSON ALGREN

I'm not sure what he was doing.
AARON NELSON

We're not relating it to compensation or anything in particular. It's definitely resolving. He looks...
AARON NELSON

Aaron had a tough match, but he came back in the consolation rounds.
AARON NELSON

Usually, it won't get worse, but it nags him. We're hoping we'll get it better and better before the...
AARON NELSON

Kevin's always been very concerned about what happened, and he's always been very remorseful about w...
AARON NELSON

It just depends how he responds to it for when we progress. We're heading in the right direction.
AARON NELSON

We're heading in the right direction.
AARON NELSON

He's getting leaner and stronger. His physique is unbelievable.
AARON NELSON

He's doing very well. He was in a pretty good mood. I asked if he had much pain and as of last night...
AARON NELSON

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is...
JUDD NELSON

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
JANDY NELSON

I've been knocking on the door for the past five years and finally doing it in this one moment means...
ADAM NELSON

I ride it pretty much everywhere in Macon - unless I have to go to north Macon.
ADAM NELSON

When the competition was over, ... five years of frustrations and just being so close, knocking on t...
ADAM NELSON

I've been knocking on the door for a long time, ... I've had so many close calls.
ADAM NELSON

After Rutger Smith threw his last throw, emotions got the better of me. I've worked really hard for ...
ADAM NELSON

[Nelson said it's a complex issue to understand.] Senator Kerry understands foreign relations inside and out, ... And when you're dealing with these governments, it's often the subtle hint, the nuance, the cock of the head, all the kind of messages that you send....

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[Nelson said it's a complex issue to understand.] Senator Kerry understands foreign relations inside and out, ... And when you're dealing with these governments, it's often the subtle hint, the nuance, the cock of the head, all the kind of messages that you send....

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