Forceful Quotes

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. - Robert Teeter

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer. - Susan Rice

When the most senior officials in the Bush administration had already forcefully and repeatedly stated their conclusions publicly. - Jay Rockefeller

We've said from the beginning we'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be. - Charles Ramsey

We've had some forceful statements from within OPEC. The possibility of OPEC releasing further oil in October under the price band mechanism prompted a degree of profit taking this morning. - Matthew Warburton

We've got to hope that he will take steps to end the stress on the forces, because this force is under huge stress... He's seen firsthand that mistakes have been made. He could forcefully decide that he's going to speak out and speak up. - Carl Levin

We're very proud of the work she's done for this party and the work she's done for the DNC. We think she's a very forceful advocate for Latinos and her district. We had a place in the program for her to speak, but we respect her decision to decline. She may still change her mind, though it doesn't seem likely, and we're moving along with our program. - Jenny Backus

We would also urge people who are criticizing these cartoons to speak out forcefully against all forms of hate speech, including cartoons and articles throughout parts of the Arab world, which frequently espouse anti-Semitic and anti-Christian views. - Scott McClellan

We think they succeeded in two key objectives. One, setting a very positive tone that almost immediately reversed the negative post-fourth-quarter sentiment. Second, quite forcefully correcting and dispelling concerns over George Reyes' comments on growth and monetization from earlier in the week. - Ben Schachter