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I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

Warren Buffett

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Oliver North

It appears as if the Taurus violated the right of way of the bus.

Scott Wilder

He violated immigration laws and he is on the Singaporean police's wanted list, and therefore we helped to hand him over to them.

Anton Bahrul Alam

The No No Committee is concerned and will be reviewing whether the commissioners have violated Texas law.

Bob Randall

Guilt and innocence were not really at issue here. It's clear that he violated the statute.

Jon Bruning

Many students felt violated by what happened. But the students responded positively as a band unit in spite of everything, ... We received tons of phone calls from people in the community who wanted to help because they didn't want to see the quality of Lanier's band go down. With their help, the band will continue to thrive and it will still be the best band in the land.

Sidney Lanier

I couldn't believe that the federal law, which is so simple and straightforward, and which is a law that's been in effect since 1998, should be so blatantly violated.

Michael Brady

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated.

Mukhtar Mai

They violated their own policy. This was nothing about enforcement or the control of contraband.

Craig Bradford

Under normal circumstances, those talks could have violated antitrust provisions. Those kinds of discussions can occur under the supervision of the commission.

David Sandman

For every security provision we put in place, there's a civil right done away with, ... There's a limit to how much security people want. Many people feel violated after they've been through check-in at the airport.

Clay Shaw

The Labor Department increased the fines in this case because Target had previously violated the child labor hazardous occupations order at other store locations.

Corlis Sellers

I am so sad to have to do something like this to the city. I will not have my name tarnished or my rights violated. I have spoken to the mayor and advised him that this action is coming. I will not let this action come between me and my duties to the city of Patton Village.

Joe Schultea Jr

Given the apparent state of the law, the department cannot reasonably be held to have knowingly violated the organizers' civil rights.

Robert Aaronson

The water had violated three of the 18 compartments. I think the captain decided that the safest thing to do was to land that ship on sand.

Lynn Martenstein

After careful review and consultation with the FBI, we did not find the agent violated any FBI policy.

Glenn Fine

The civil rights of European Americans are being violated by affirmative action, forced integration and anti-European immigration policies... . We face cultural discrimination in the media and education... . An example is the media hate crime hysteria that highlights and publicizes any white crime against minorities.

David Duke

I can't openly say that human rights are violated in Cuba. I don't have either the moral authority or the knowledge that would allow me to say so.

Nestor Kirchner

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

Peter King

The Court failed to identify a provision of the (Constitution) that the Connecticut law violated. Instead it spoke vaguely of the 'penumbras' and 'emanations' of the Bill of Rights, in language that continues to turn the stomach of fundamentalists (and many others), ... Radicals in Robes.

Cass R. Sunstein

If one business' rights are violated, it opens the door for the mayor and police to shut down other businesses without due process, like nightclubs.

Joseph Robinson

Has let us down. ... The trust, I believe, in our good city has been violated.

Shannon Sullivan

What we expect to get out of this is the declaration that the coup was wrong and that the rights of the petitioners were violated. No matter what happens on Tuesday, the election is going to be an empty exercise, unless the international community respects the Haitian voters' decision.

Brian Concannon

The evidence in this case has established that Dr. Reddy violated numerous state and federal laws, ... The heart of this case is the violation of public policy and wrongful termination.

Vincent Nolan

We felt that Mr. Turner was unjustly killed at the hands of the police department and somebody needed to step up and say something about it. Now that we're formed, we will follow up on pertinent issues of concern in our community to assure that policies, state, and federal laws, are not violated against any citizen of Pitt County.

Al Alston

The sanctuaries, the assets and the wealth of the (Islamic) nation have been violated and spoiled by the heinous infidels and their agents in the apostate governments.

Al qaeda

This is a fundamental change in policy and it fundamentally violated the Clean Air Act. Anything less than (IGCC) is going to lead to higher levels of air pollution.

Anne Hedges

There is sufficient evidence to prove Saddam violated international treaties.

Jamal Karimirad

The decision before the committee was whether the conduct in the case violated NCAA bylaws. And to that, the committee obviously has a great deal to say.

Josephine Potuto

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

Shirin Ebadi

For the first time, normal citizens focused on this issue, weighed the evidence and found their public trust was violated.

Jay Heck

The LAPD criminally, intentionally and brutally violated the rights of tens of thousands of people who were attempting to exercise their right to engage in peaceful political protest.

James Lafferty

He turned their lives upside down, ... He told the world these people were pornographers. While [human resources] ruled they violated the policy, they weren't pornographers. I have seen some of the evidence and it isn't porn. ... What I'd like to know is: who holds Nathan accountable?

Nancy Wagner

They never had a prayer of winning. They violated the law.

Deborah Collins

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Felix Adler

We believe Ms. Rodriguez violated the terms of her probation. She now potentially faces up to 18 months in county jail.

Frank Mateljan

It became apparent Mr. Wu had violated firm policies in sending his early morning e-mail and that his employment was in jeopardy as a result.

Mark Sutton

We can, when laws have been violated, hold people accountable to the laws that have been violated.

Don Degabrielle

Violated the spirit of the rule itself.

John Darby

The U.S. has violated certain standards in its fight against terror. We need to draw a clear line between us and the U.S., even though the U.S. is an ally.

Gregor Gysi

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Victor Hugo

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

Mark Herron

Being able to protect yourself is an emotional issue. Rape and murder and kidnapping are emotional issues. And your right to have a firearm to protect yourself from those crimes is a preeminent right that is well guarded by the Constitution, well established in Florida law, and something needs to be done to stop these rights from being violated.

Marion Hammer

They are asking that our laws be totally violated to protect illegal aliens, people who break the law and come into this country.

Rosanna Pulido

During the Balkan conflict, at least 20,000 Muslim girls and women were also raped, with teenage girls particularly targeted. In Myanmar, in Uganda, in East Timor, the bodies of women and girls were and are being violated as part of battle. This kind of violence is not collateral damage. It's a war crime.

Rima Salah

We had no doubts that we made the right decision. They violated one of the standard rules that we have. Every team knows that you can't do that.

Tony Mosa

These gentlemen's rights were violated in that the company failed to follow the appropriate process throughout this entire inquiry.

Stephen Best

Afraid that he would be violated on his probation if he refused, McCowen reluctantly agreed.

Robert George

We are quite disappointed at the unprofessional and dangerous acts of the ships. The company is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ships' operators because they not only brought danger to Odyssey, but to their own ships. The company will file a lawsuit against the crew members too since they violated a lot of maritime affairs rules.

Greg Stemm

Mr. Coen?s rights were violated.

Jesse Barton

We're a very small firm and have a very trusting environment. We feel violated.

Robert Franklin

We don't believe that we violated the law. However, it was, we feel, a prudent decision to resolve the matter and move on.

John Graves

I want to make it clear to those immigrants who are here illegally, we're not going to go around to factories (or elsewhere) … asking for your cards. … I don't want an immigrant here illegally violated by a (criminal) act of someone else, afraid to call the local law enforcement agencies for help. We will not deport you. We will go after the person who did the crime.

Andy Lee

It believes that it has not violated its EU competition laws.

Michael Carter

The mayor showed his commitment to ensuring the immigrant community access to city services without fear by signing E.O. 41 two years ago. Since that time, city agencies have taken care to comply with the order, and there is not a single documented case of it being violated.

Robert Lawson

We have to remember that as long as our territory is violated, we have the right to respond from time to time.

Dan Halutz

He violated team rules. We got to Troy and bought him a one-way bus ticket back to Murfreesboro.

Kermit Davis

A warrant was issued for Robert Durst today after witnesses saw the offender in Galveston on Dec. 16. By being there, Durst violated the terms of his supervision that restrict his schedule and travel.

Mike Viesca

If you look at hunting accidents, there's always one or more rules violated.

Thomas Baumeister

We have never in any instance violated any reporting requirement.

Craig Nesbit

My decision, upheld by the athletic board, is Reuben had violated a student-athlete code of conduct by being charged with the felony and in so doing he should not be able to play.

Dave Braine

It violated everything I personally believed in and everything I had been taught about war. It was more of a moral call than anything.

Joseph Darby

The law is violated every day.

Barbara Petersen

The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights and our advertisers' rights.

James Rogers

We have seen periodic exceeding. Standards are being violated occasionally.

Kevin Chambers

Currently we're investigating to determine if any law was violated.

Frank Scafidi

They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.

Marvin Miller

Our preliminary findings indicate that certain conduct at UAP circumvented generally accepted accounting practices and violated ConAgra Foods' corporate policy, ... Those actions will not be tolerated.

Bruce Rohde

It's really a cleaning fee. Once you smoke in there, you've violated that entire environment and we have to clean it all over again.

Sue Brush

We did not do anything that violated the law. We did not do anything that other cities hadn't done, it was part of the process. We didn't do things that should embarrass this community.

Tom Welch

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Roger Williams

So you have no personal knowledge that any rules were being violated.

Frank Spinner

It is clearly improper for a campaign manager to negotiate with a government entity, and to be in touch with state commissioners acting as a go-between. If the special legislative investigation finds that laws have been violated, then the issue has to be referred to the proper investigative authorities for further action, and possibly a grand jury.

Dannel Malloy

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

Joseph Howe

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them.

Jesse Helms

We are pleased that the court has ordered that, if the 5,186,000 shares acquired by Gold Fields are material to tomorrow's vote, the transaction may not proceed until the court has considered whether Gold Fields violated the take-over bid rules.

Michael Burry

When you participate as a party in an NTSB investigation, the rules are that only the NTSB releases any information. (The union) violated those rules.

Lauren Peduzzi

There may be issues that need to be looked into, but they will need to be done on a local level. The guidelines we follow have not been violated.

Keith Roehr

The available scientific evidence proves that wild Atlantic salmon in the United States are on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service disregarded the scientific evidence and violated their statutory mandate under the ESA when they accepted Maine's voluntary plan instead of federal listing.

Michael Senatore

For a century now artists have been accustomed to pushing outward the boundaries of what's called art, delighting in the squeals of people whose expectations are violated. But the old fun is gone. the conservatives, by and large, have given up the game.

John Hart

They violated one of the basic principals of the Olympic Games. That politics play no part whatsoever in them.

Avery Brundage

He violated the trust of a priest and the decency of any person by molesting numerous children. For that, there is no excuse, there is no explanation and there is no defense. And none will be offered.

Leonard Levine

This kind of thing can just bring out all the resentment and anger from one party to another because they feel one of their own people has been violated. It has not been easy for him.

Chuck Sherwood

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Ye Xiaowen

The fact that public servants who have seriously violated their duties to the public would be rewarded by a lifetime pension seems grossly unfair to average citizens.

Chellie Pingree

The Department found no reasonable cause to believe that any of the provisions of Title VIII of the Fair Housing Act were violated by the respondent.

Barbara Knox

That cannot be tolerated, ... He violated our rules of procedures. I consider it the most serious violation of rule and order to place a prisoner in your custody and not inform the dispatcher. You put that person in a vulnerable position.

John Gallagher

HUD expects us to carry out our responsibilities to the federal government. If the leases are violated, we have to take action. This is our way of, I guess, putting out the message that a lease violation is very serious.

Stephanie Aveiro

He violated the Michigan gambling law that which regulates the use of gaming and casinos in the state. Essentially, by being on his computer placing a bet and gambling while in the state of Michigan, he went against Michigan statute, which regulates and controls gambling.

Nate Bailey

I want bad actors who have violated the public trust to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, ... What I will not do is cave into political pressure and start this process until I have a complete picture of what the problem is.

Bill Harris

The president has no right to talk about freedom and democracy in a country where human rights have been violated on a large scale.

David Gamkrelidze

The defense attorneys have a well founded fear, especially considering how the government has handled this up until now, that Wen Ho Lee is going to go home, they're going to debrief him, then the government is going to run into court and say 'We don't think he's been truthful, he's violated the plea agreement' and throw him back in jail.

Dr. Jeffrey Harris

Some people feel extremely violated.

Jay Foley

Way back in 1972, I read that they were using living cells from aborted babies to make the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. That violated my conscious. I guess I am a little bit angry about it, about the Iowa law (that makes people get vaccines).

Donna Holman

For a woman, once her body is violated, it's very hard to feel alive again. I think of my body as something dirty, and that's how I think of myself.

Yong Soo Lee

Technically he hasn't violated any laws by purchasing a tag, ... He was under the belief that he would be done and that he would be able to hunt this bison.

Chris Cavanaugh

Right now, there are no charges if the story is true. He says he lost control of his vehicle, and right now, there is not criminal intent. We are still investigating to find out if any laws were violated.

Joey Giordano

My bottom line is I don't think Larry violated any criminal statutes. I just wanted to get this behind him so he can get on with his life.

Michael Pancer

We are ... disappointed that they have decided to temporarily suspend implementation, ... The U.S. will continue to pursue and press for the extradition of all those who have violated U.S. laws and harmed U.S. interests.

William Wood

I wasn't really scared. I was more angry. I felt violated.

Lori Kennedy

He should have never been out in the first place. That's crazy. If he had been violated those girls would still be living. ... Even though he didn't kill them, he should be charged as an accessory to murder.

Bobby Williams

They violated really a whole myriad of rules, really.

Joe Roseto

That's not to say we will not become more involved in the future. There are potential federal criminal statutes that were violated.

Michael Drewniak

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release.

Chris Stanton

I was angry, I felt violated . I was angry for quite a while about it, and now I would just like to have it back. It's kind of like one of the kids been gone a long time and needs to come home now .

Jerry Kramer

We have high expectations for our staff. When they are violated, we take the necessary steps.

Rick Kaufman

When a brokerage firm permits a hedge fund or any other market participant to trade deceptively and gain an unfair advantage over other investors, it has violated the trust that forms the foundation of our capital markets.

Richard Ketchum

I unintentionally and unknowingly violated Massachusetts General Law.

Michael Brady

[When the magazine hit the stands,] The first picture I saw was Kim wearing my son's mink coat, holding his chain and wearing his hat. I was in shock, ... I felt violated.

Christopher Wallace

I feel violated. Like there is no safety around, no guarantees that anything you do ethically or honestly has meaning because there are con artists who can do anything they want.

Ignacio Ramirez

Certain information that was provided to us gave indications and are giving indications that some of the (treaty) principles ... have been violated.

Oliver Drewes

It's obvious that the design was done incorrectly, ... Then there are code issues that have been violated with the way it was constructed.

Todd Duncan

They all violated ethics rules.

Melanie Sloan

There?s no question here that the public?s trust has been violated in this situation.

Gene Meyer

Home invasion is a very serious crime where the victims often feel violated because their personal, private space has been entered. We have committed the full resources of the department to reducing home invasions in our community through public awareness, crime prevention information, increased subdivision patrols and by committing the full efforts of the SONIC team.

William Dwyer

I am troubled that a rule was admittedly violated and it took us five years to find out about it.

Andy Geiger

They did make me feel like a criminal and I felt violated. I'm not a criminal and everybody knows it.

David Wheeler

According to a letter from the GAO to the Department of Education. ''This violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition.

Armstrong Williams

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Michael Mcdermott

We are here because our rights have been violated and we need to protect them.

Kapil Shrestha

The protest was cancelled because, in my opinion, the agreement we had with [GJP] was violated when they sent out a media alert describing an elaborate theatrical event being held, ... We never would have approved an elaborate theatrical event where the Career Fair is going on.

Robert Sherwood

[Intel argued that it hasn't violated any law or committed any wrongdoing. Intel said the AMD lawsuit is full of contradictions, including the claim that Intel's competitive actions could render it] nonviable. ... is in the strongest position we've ever been in.

Hector Ruiz

We are deeply disappointed by the verdict. Throughout this case we have seen no evidence that Mr. Pope violated any Russian laws. We remain very concerned that his (Pope's) health has deteriorated in recent days. We have been making clear to the Russian government that they should move to release Mr. Pope on humanitarian grounds.

Pj Crowley

I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowing public participation.

Adria Harper

This is a major issue because no one has determined an accurate way to measure the audience. Keep in mind that this is a self-regulatory rule adopted to head off legislation. It is not a law and if violated does not constitute an illegal act. So the penalty for violating it is non-existent. The point is for companies to use their best efforts.

Doug Wood

This cowardly act ... attempts to divert attention from bringing justice to those who violated the law and disrespected human lives.

Leith Kubba

We believe that, behind the death, there were regrettable acts by Chinese intelligence personnel that violated duties (of treaties to safeguard diplomats).

Yoshinori Katori

I am very frustrated. I am upset about it, and it's not right. It's like they violated my rights as a parent.

Berthena Dorinvil

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy.

David Horowitz

We have the rules because police have historically violated civil rights. We wouldn't need the constitution to protect our freedoms if we had a government we always agreed with and we would let the legislature make whatever laws they wanted and we would follow them.

Stephan Seeger

It is an unfortunate and surprising incident. We were surprised to be told to go back when we had not violated any immigration laws. We did not jump the border.

Nelson Chamisa

There is a high level of upset among voters who feel their franchise was violated, ... One voter said she got a sample ballot in the mail, filled out all the little circles, then took it to the polls. It wasn't until she saw the discussion later in the news that she realized she had picked the wrong circle.

Deborah Phillips

I repeat once again, Playboy Indonesia has not violated any Indonesian laws.

Erwin Arnada

Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated federal law. He's a product of illegal drugs.

Elden Auker

These executives have irreparably violated the public trust.

Ed Fallon