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I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal
government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.


People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I
came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

Charlie Norwood


I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real
thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will
haunt me for days.

Anita Shreve


We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had
belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

Thomas Goodwin


My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all
pressure.

Ricardo Lagos


Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes
to our retirement benefit system.

Sue Kelly


When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we
cannot say nor find that we are at home in this life.

Jakob Bohme


You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what
I wish for!

Marcus Valerius Martial


I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the
bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Shane Carruth


When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Karl Malone


I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more
to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No.
1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

Olly Murs


People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think
it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies
from now to the end of time.

Alan Arkin


I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents.
Everybody has to make their own choices.

Steve Earle


For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our
promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

David Blunkett


We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to
our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

Iain Duncan Smith


The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology
wasn't ready.

Matt Mullenweg


I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that
promise.

George McGovern


I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really
depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!

Alanis Morissette


I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that.

Shaquille O'Neal


Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise
an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas


It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer


And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect
Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Thomas Goodwin


I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue
to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare'
every time I walk into or out of a room.

Jon Scieszka


The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that
seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

Rand Paul


If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously
having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

Alan Mollohan


We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take
the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

Thomas Goodwin


In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the
12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise,
batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.

Jane Leavy


Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Joan Halifax


We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the
promise of democracy.

James E. Rogers


The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's
what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to
their district that the prison system and its related industries promise.

Eugene Jarecki


We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

Mike Rogers


My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on
'Letterman?'' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

Maggie Q


New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of
other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

Daniel Akaka


It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat
of a woman.

Alexandre Dumas


Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly
be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his
current abandonment of all hope.

David Limbaugh


It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a
relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Bella Thorne


 

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy
and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

Marian Wright Edelman


Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn


Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em
go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Peter Lynch


The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Cindy Sherman


We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the
seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

Simon Schama


I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says
a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality
and opportunity for all.

Conor Oberst


One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no
fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Max Lucado


Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes
of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in
countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.

Stephen Harper


Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error.
God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Pope Francis


Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Nikita Khrushchev


I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Spiro T. Agnew


 

 I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their
dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Tyne Daly


As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side.
Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Julian Bond


Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Karl Popper


What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to
have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the
plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wade Davis


I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all
of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to
our best intentions.

Barack Obama


We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to
Wall Street.

Barack Obama


If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

Merv Griffin


An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Red Auerbach


Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but
they'll thank you later in life.

Laura Marano


I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked.
The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

Gretchen Rubin


Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your
ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Lane Allen


I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal
education but a high-quality equal education.

Jonathan Kozol


We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get
enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

Sharon Salzberg


When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Gary Hamel


If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we
think of this as a system of female privilege?

Warren Farrell


Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or
enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to
transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

Dean Ornish


Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

Bernie Sanders


How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first
promise that America made?

Dan Savage


If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a
call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

Jay S. Walker


It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil
Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

Thomas Perez


Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite
correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

Michael Hayden


Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Walter Lang


As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't
have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them
deliverables, and go hit at it.

Sanjay Kumar


Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of
Promise.

Herbert Croly


We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to
do with how far you can come.

Wendy Davis


This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope,
the truth and the promise of America.

Cory Booker


I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost.

Jonathan Silverman


If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know?

Nolan Gerard Funk


I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.

Michael Schiavo


I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, please stop filling your head with filth. People say it's just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you, you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch on television.

Angus T. Jones


I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Mikheil Saakashvili


Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

Craig Kilborn


We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

Yoshihiko Noda


If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me anywhere near the red carpet. But, please promise not to tell them. I'm harmless, I swear.


It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.

Thomas PerezRoss Mathews


There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of America for the next generation. And that's why we must stand up and make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.

Susana Martinez


I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father.

Heber J. Grant


The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

Simon Schama


A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Ryan Holmes


The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

Timothy Noah


We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Paul Ryan


I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Josh Gad


Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.

Douglas Wilder


I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.

Blake Jenner


My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise!

Seamus Dever


The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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