Top 87 Gonzales Quotes
#1. On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.
Jay Leno
#2. Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
Barbara Mikulski
#3. I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
Daniel Inouye
#4. It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
Jon Kyl
#5. Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Mel Martinez
#6. Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
Daniel Inouye
#7. April 18, 2007: RBG launches her era of furious dissent with the abortion case Gonzales v. Carhart.
Irin Carmon
#8. That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
Joshua Micah Marshall
#9. This is what really happens when fairy tales exist. There is nothing magical or enchanting about it, my dear.
R.J. Gonzales
#10. In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.
Alberto Gonzales
#11. But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
Alberto Gonzales
#12. Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
Laurence Gonzales
#13. This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.
Alberto Gonzales
#14. We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
Alberto Gonzales
#15. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
Mark Gonzales
#16. We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.
Alberto Gonzales
#17. With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.
Laurence Gonzales
#19. A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.
R.J. Gonzales
#21. At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?
Alberto Gonzales
#22. To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.
Laurence Gonzales
#23. I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
Alberto Gonzales
#24. He listened to a fire fighter tell of a woman he had found strapped into her seat, screaming. When he cut the seat belt, she fell apart. She was being held together by the seat belt. She died at his feet.
Laurence Gonzales
#25. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
Alberto Gonzales
#27. I have a lot of time to smoke a cigar and sit around and do nothing and enjoy life-and wonder and ponder. I need time to think about how to conquer things. I am faced with the challenge of what I will do next and how will I do it.
Mark Gonzales
#28. I didn't know who the young cashier was, but I still felt like a little part of me died as I watched him go under the hood. Even more so when I felt the bump beneath my seat in the back.
R.J. Gonzales
#29. The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
Laurence Gonzales
#30. You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.
Mark Gonzales
#31. I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.
Alberto Gonzales
#32. Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
Laurence Gonzales
#33. I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
Alberto Gonzales
#34. I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.
Alberto Gonzales
#35. If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.
Mark Gonzales
#36. Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.
Alberto Gonzales
#37. May I collect you, Rini? - " he said, softly pulling our lips apart. "As mine?
R.J. Gonzales
#38. The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.
Alberto Gonzales
#39. To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.
Laurence Gonzales
#40. I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders ... It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)
Laurence Gonzales
#42. It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.
Chilly Gonzales
#43. To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.
Laurence Gonzales
#45. We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.
Alberto Gonzales
#46. You broke her heart in person - you fix it in person!
R.J. Gonzales
#48. It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.
Mark Gonzales
#49. Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.
Laurence Gonzales
#50. Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.
Alberto Gonzales
#51. I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.
Mark Gonzales
#52. There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
Alberto Gonzales
#53. The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
#54. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.
Laurence Gonzales
#56. I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.
Mark Gonzales
#57. The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.
Laurence Gonzales
#58. Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets.
Randy Gonzales
#59. Dammit. I think I'm in like with the naked man I met today.
R.J. Gonzales
#60. Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.
Alberto Gonzales
#61. There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
Alberto Gonzales
#62. The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
Pancho Gonzales
#63. I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
Alberto Gonzales
#64. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.
R.J. Gonzales
#66. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.
Laurence Gonzales
#67. I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
Pancho Gonzales
#68. To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.
Laurence Gonzales
#69. As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. "He tried to sit up," Martz said. "I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him.
Laurence Gonzales
#70. If you can be not afraid to be laughed at, you could do so many things.
Mark Gonzales
#72. I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
Alberto Gonzales
#73. Great. My life has suddenly become a young-adult novel.
R.J. Gonzales
#74. Eventually, I'll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl - who even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.
R.J. Gonzales
#75. I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.
Alberto Gonzales
#76. We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.
Laurence Gonzales
#77. What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to embrace. It was a hug. A hug good-bye.
Laurence Gonzales
#79. In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
Alberto Gonzales
#80. Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.
Mark Gonzales
#81. Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
Alberto Gonzales
#82. I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.
Laurence Gonzales
#83. We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
Laurence Gonzales
#84. Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.
Alberto Gonzales
#85. Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. You're going to die when you're supposed to die.
Laurence Gonzales
#86. I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
Alberto Gonzales
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