Quotes of: Chief-executive Keyword

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

William Henry Ashley

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

Charlton Heston

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Fidel Castro

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

Fetty Wap

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Hippocrates

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Jack Adams

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

John Cusack

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Joe Torre

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

Geoff Hoon

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Patrick Stewart

[Staring at Alex's penis] Chief Guard Barnes: Are you now, or have you ever been a homosexual?

A Clockwork Orange

Chief Gillespie: I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead.

In the Heat of the Night

[last lines] Chief Gillespie: You take care, y'hear? Virgil Tibbs: Yeah.

In the Heat of the Night

Crown Prince Leopold: How do I look? Chief Inspector Uhl: Ordinary, sir. Very ordinary.

The Illusionist

Gideon: Careful, Chief. Dig up the past, all you get is dirty.

Minority Report

McMurphy: Goddamn it Chief, you about as big as a damn mountain!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Police Chief: Why did you shoot those puppies, John?

Rebel Without a Cause