Overreached Quotes

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world. - Bill Russell

This proposal is a move in the right direction, but it has just overreached in some areas. In some areas it will just add cost, and not necessarily produce better companies. - Jerry Carter

The state overreached. They wanted the other 5.7 acres and they coerced my client, Mr. Hering, into selling it to them by saying that he wasn't going to get a right-of-way to get to those acres. - Larry Klayman

The president's speech tonight used lofty, yet recycled, rhetoric to paint a picture of a country that has prospered and become stronger in this new century. Unfortunately, that's not the America his policies have created for too many families... A year ago, the president overreached by threatening to privatize and dismantle Social Security. This year, he reached for too little. - Harry Reid

The government got it completely wrong about whether he was a terrorist, and overreached for detention powers Congress never granted. - Ahilan Arulanantham

The European Commission overreached itself in the G.E.-Honeywell case. It pushed theories like the 'conglomerate effects' theory too far, and fitted the facts of the case to suit the theory. - Alec Burnside

Religious political groups and their congressional allies overreached. - Elizabeth Birch

I've got a district right now shaped like Indonesia... It makes no sense at all except from the political perspective. I really think the Democratic Party in Georgia knows they overreached on these maps. What occurred is just a corrective measure to put communities back together again. - Phil Gingrey

It really is breathtaking how over the top and how much they overreached with that legislation. Tom Tancredo and Jim Sensenbrenner really kicked over a beehive with the legislation. - Douglas Rivlin

I just think he has overreached a little bit. - Mark Pudlow