Banned Quotes

We will hold a hearing in Vienna once the Olympics are over. It doesn't matter what the IOC findings are, if we find they've done the wrong thing, they'll be banned officially. - Peter Schroecksnadel

We offered all supporters, via our website, the opportunity to submit their views against four options and overwhelmingly they wanted smoking to be banned in the outdoor sections of the stadium. - Phil Anderton

We notified him on Oct. 11, 2004, that he was banned from all Baltimore County Public Libraries until such time as the matter of the missing books was resolved. - Bob Hughes

We have not banned the word 'refugee,' ... We have used it along with 'evacuee,' 'survivor,' 'displaced' and various other terms that fit what our reporters are seeing on the ground. Webster's defines a refugee as a person fleeing 'home or country' in search of refuge, and it certainly does justice to the suffering legions driven from their homes by Katrina. - Catherine Mathis

We have not banned it (soda) because we have not seen any hard data. If people are calling this a public health crisis then we should require that only 18-year-olds can buy soda. - Pam McCoy

We have major concerns about stocking animals for hunting. This practice should be banned. - Heidi Prescott

We have 96 banned species in Connecticut. - Donna Ellis

We don't do it to catch people, [but] we do it to deter the use of banned substances. - Frank Uryasz

We can't accept that athletes are being banned due to slightly higher blood cell counts, using the excuse of health concerns. - Ernst Jakob