Council Quotes

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Good council has no price.

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

Don't take too much council from your fears.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.