Standards Quotes

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.