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Kofi Annan

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THOMAS DAWSON We don't have any information on that. We've got some allegations but no concrete evidence.
ADAM DAY It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN We have no reason to believe anyone else is involved in this matter. We have evidence that only one ...
ALLENSTOWN CAPT. SHAUN MULHOLLAND Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER We have to go by the evidence, and there was no evidence of human intrusion.
CHERYL AVERY We have found no evidence of additional cases of PML.
EUGENE MAJOR Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO He is entitled to his opinion. We can only say that we have no concrete evidence that an attack is p...
CHRISTIAN SACHS We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR We have no reason to believe any of that ... These are rumors, we cannot comment on something that d...
FLORENCE HARTMANN There is no evidence to prove the involvement of hostile fire in helicopter crash. We have no eviden...
JAMES YONTS We do not have any credible or specific evidence indicating a possible attack of the kind seen in Lo...
BRIAN ROEHRKASSE We are working very hard at collecting any kind of evidence and looking at places that we probably n...
BETTY SCHWAB The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have no direct evidence linking the two fires.
JOSH FRIEDMAN We have found no evidence of a national conspiracy to fix gasoline prices.
RICHARD TAYLOR Death is the only evidence of life. If there were no death, there would have been only an existence.
EPHDAN I tell you no such evidence exists. They have recycled a bunch of old rumors ... There is no pattern...
BOB BENNETT Most of the time, the only thing we have to go on is latent fingerprint evidence, and since this per...
DETECTIVE DAVID BOWEN I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
BARTON GELLMAN Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
JERRY SEINFELD I'm against offshore drilling. There's no convincing evidence that there's any oil reserves out ther...
VERN BUCHANAN A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.
JERRY SEINFELD Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men h...
LYSANDER SPOONER Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Right now we have no evidence that the rise in gas prices is not the result of ordinary market force...
EMILY LUCIER We have not had any charge laid formally against the accused, nor have we had any evidence as to wha...
ABDEL HAQ ALANI We have asked the United States to provide us with that evidence, and we have not seen any forthcomi...
JAVAD ZARIF We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact o...
ERIK AUTOR The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE If the government illegally seizes evidence, not only that evidence can be suppressed but any eviden...
MARK RUSH I figure we have sufficient evidence to convict him . . . there's no one else but him.
HENRY WADE There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.
JOHN SHERMAN COOPER We have heard a lot of rumors, but no one has told us anything. I only know what people are saying, ...
MARIA MARTINEZ We view this as not a major incident at all. There is no evidence of any security breach whatsoever....
TODD ANDREWS we have no indications that the allegations of civilian casualties is accurate.
BRYAN WHITMAN Anybody can make an allegation, ... They've made allegations for years, but they have not backed the...
LARRY POZNER no evidence that these very low levels pose any harm.
ELIZABETH WHELAN I have found no evidence to date in the rather voluminous material, floor to ceiling, that we have 1...
PAT ROBERTS Securities companies and insurers are suspected of fixing commission fees or insurance premiums, but...
HUR SEON We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for milita...
JAMES RUBIN The only disability that I have, is that I'm human.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've heard those theories, but we have no concrete evidence one way or another. Nothing has been dis...
BOB FRIEND There is no DNA evidence that shows she was touched by any of these boys.
JOE CHESHIRE There have always been questions about reliability (of) other types of evidence -- eyewitness testim...
CHRIS PLOURD And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very s...
THOMAS REID For two decades, policy-makers have mistakenly assumed that these statutes shield children from drug...
JUDITH GREENE We have evidence of the fact that it can work.
KAJ PEDERSEN From a policing perspective, our job is to gather evidence, analyze evidence and present evidence. W...
WAYNE OAKES We look at the entire situation and all of the evidence we have.
BRIAN HEMPHILL No charges should be brought; the investigation should be closed. . . . There's no scientific eviden...
PETE ANDERSON We don't have any witnesses that saw anybody run from the house. We don't have any DNA. There's real...
JOE WARD Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU We've seen evidence that they've sealed themselves off. We have no reason to doubt they are anything...
MARSHALL HAMILTON At this point, we have no evidence suggesting it was someone at school, but it was something one of ...
DOUG TOBIN You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore...
STEVEN MAGEE Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the...
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT We have no problems, only challenges
LEON VAN DE PAS We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't t...
BOB STOTT The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I thin...
MARK POTOK And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG It's not really definitive evidence. But on the other hand, what do we do while we wait for definiti...
DALLAS ANDERSON Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?
RUSH LIMBAUGH The initial evidence we have gathered from the site of blast suggested that it was a suicide attack ...
JEHANGIR MIRZA We found no evidence to support that hypothesis.
DEBORAH BARNES We have been in direct contact with the Department of Management Services and have been assured that...
KYLE CAVANAUGH I don't have any evidence of this accident.
KONRAD FREYTAG We are not going to comment on any of these rumors.
DAVID BECK They have no facts or evidence to support the claim of repressed memory.
CHARLES F. GAY JR We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outco...
JOHN EDWARD GRAY We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outco...
JOHN E. GRAY We have the evidence, we have the proof . . . this was a carefully planned rebellion,
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO We have not foreclosed charging other crimes against this individual should other evidence be develo...
JOHN ASHCROFT We have not done anything wrong. There isn't a shred of evidence to back up any allegation that's be...
GARY BARNETT Leung did talk to the FBI as a complainant. The FBI found no evidence to corroborate the allegations...
LARAE QUY We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
ROSARIO CASTELLANOS This is inconsistent with virtually every shred of scientific evidence we have.
JACOB SMITH We have issues on jury selection and evidence.
DON SAMUEL The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN They haven't provided any evidence at all. We have been telling them they should provide evidence to...
ANWAR MAHMOOD We have no evidence at this time of anything else being done, feces thrown around or as a weapon, or...
ANDRES DURBAK We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Any service of this kind is only as good as the content it offers, which is why we have signed these...
DAN MARKS We don't have a lot of physical evidence that you would have in a stabbing, shooting, that sort of c...
ED PARKINSON We absolutely do not have any of what I consider scientifically sound evidence that chelators are go...
WENDY ROBERTS We want to make it clear to the U.N. Secretary-General ( Kofi Annan ) himself that those sites are w...
NIZAR HAMDOON Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY The investigation did not find any conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by the athlete. We acknowledged...
CHARLIE PILE Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when...
JOHN LUBBOCK Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
JOHN LUBBOCK We have such evidence that this raid was necessary.
ARNE LJUNGQVIST There had been previous reports about the Koran being defiled, but they always seemed to be rumors o...
MARK WHITAKER On a gut level? Guilty. On evidence? Not guilty. (But) we have to go with evidence. This is a court ...
JOSEPH WATSON We read about these things only in the media, but we have not received anything official from the co...
ISSAM GHAZAWI We have strong evidence against them. We don't just file cases that will not stand in court.
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