A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
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.
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.
Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.
To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.
You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!” “You’re impossible!” “Love you too!
Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.
Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised.
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
