William Lacy Clay, Jr. quote: "I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level."

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-Ame...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice sy...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactic...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is to...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local poli...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR.

There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and here...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has star...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaw...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. Th...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the cons...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physi...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildr...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 20...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doin...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits w...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality i...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of t...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they a...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base,...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I have no patience for wasting time.
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going t...
WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR.

We're acquiring a great brand, [and] introducing it into our stores will attract new shoppers...who ...
ALAN LACY

Clearly business is slowing down. Everybody is cutting back a bit, but our focus has been to structu...
ALAN LACY

We probably are going to become a little bit less of a department store, with less emphasis on appar...
ALAN LACY

Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY

On a stand-alone basis, Sears Canada's retail business faces an increasingly competitive retail envi...
ALAN LACY

further refine its core business strategy.
ALAN LACY

If people can't pay the credit in 180 days, and these are people who would pay in the 240 days they ...
ALAN LACY

We are pleased that sales in core businesses such as lawn and garden, tools and apparel have shown s...
ALAN LACY

Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His ...
ALAN LACY

We knew that this would be our toughest quarter as we reached the height of our reposition efforts, ...
ALAN LACY

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Sax...
STEVE LACY

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants o...
JAKE LACY

As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveil...
SARAH LACY

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist ...
STEVE LACY

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. I...
STEVE LACY

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't wher...
SARAH LACY

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the f...
SARAH LACY

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
SARAH LACY

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violi...
STEVE LACY

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
STEVE LACY

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do i...
SARAH LACY

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the ...
SARAH LACY

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans...
SARAH LACY

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
JAKE LACY

It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We'...
SARAH LACY

I am the future generation. I believe peace, justice and brotherhood can be accomplished.
LACY HOWARD

Most of the rescue operations have been completed and they're moving into recovery mode,
BILL LACY

I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.
JAKE LACY

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for g...
SARAH LACY

Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere e...
SARAH LACY

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public gl...
SARAH LACY

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperc...
LACY HUNT

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wan...
STEVE LACY

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the worl...
SARAH LACY

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivo...
SARAH LACY

While revenues are lower, we continue to be pleased with the progress we are making on our repositio...
ALAN LACY

That's one fight that I'm looking forward to happening. I've always told you I'm not going to duck S...
JEFF LACY

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even somethin...
SARAH LACY

Second, it's important to bring Richard back to actually speak in the Dole Institute, which he was s...
BILL LACY

Not knowing where or how I decide,I know now that I should never hide,Not knowing now or how I begin...
OLIVIA LACY

We believe that most Sears Canada shareholders will agree that $16.86 is a fair price and will tende...
ALAN LACY

She just adores him. She sits in his hand and stares at him, and he just loves it.
LAURA LACY

I don't buy that injury for a minute. He's just ducking me to get out of the fight,
JEFF LACY

The stock market has given off false signals in terms of anticipating recessions, but it has never g...
LACY HUNT

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spiri...
STEVE LACY

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned o...
SARAH LACY

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, an...
STEVE LACY

If your heart is made of steel,sure enough,it's never going to get bruised,or broken,but it will alw...
OLIVIA LACY

Love is overrated, and has always backstabbed me, I have never been the one to trust it, it causes t...
OLIVIA LACY

They should start very slowly and build up. They probably should have a physical examination, especi...
ALAN LACY

‎"I'm all alone,cold,and chilled to the bone,When I call,You never answer the phone,Now I know how...
OLIVIA LACY

(Pearl River County) had significant damage in the southern part of the county,
BILL LACY

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to t...
SARAH LACY

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I...
SARAH LACY

Love doesn't fix things for you; it destroys what is left in your heart.
OLIVIA LACY

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot ...
STEVE LACY

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
STEVE LACY

The industry isn't dying. The industry is adjusting. What that means is, there's not a need for as m...
STEPHEN LACY

We are concerned that speculation reported in the press may be misleading the market regarding our i...
ALAN LACY

We do a dangerous job but we don't want to ever minimize the value of our personnel,
BILL LACY

Along with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa is responsible for the end of the Cold W...
BILL LACY

They needed incident managers and I was fortunate enough to be available at the time. Several of us ...
BILL LACY

We are delighted to have two outstanding guests to talk about this topic.
BILL LACY

We are delighted and honored that Richard will be coming back. First, he is working on a book that m...
BILL LACY

Dan is uniquely qualified to discuss this issue given his current role and very significant politica...
BILL LACY

Crying,feels like the answer,but deep down,all it does is make your heart die,and everything turns t...
OLIVIA LACY

Although we are very far apart,I'll always give you love from the depths of my aching heart. I love ...
OLIVIA LACY

You hold my heart in your hand, do whatever you please with it, you will just do as much damage as y...
OLIVIA LACY

He's not a fighter I can overlook at all. He was able to knock out Omar Sheika, a guy who I couldn't...
JEFF LACY

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right rea...
SARAH LACY

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
STEVE LACY

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
STEVE LACY

I think that if you look at these bills, it's not going to be that easy to qualify. It's not somethi...
ELAINE LACY

We're looking at a group that is making a valuable contribution to society. It would be ludicrous to...
ELAINE LACY

The thinking behind that is that if you teach them in their own language first, by the time they lea...
ELAINE LACY

In many cases the family needs income so the student will drop out. Literature on this issue also sh...
ELAINE LACY

We found that a huge percentage of the Latinos living in Louisiana and Mississippi are still homeles...
ELAINE LACY

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a par...
STEVE LACY

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was fu...
STEVE LACY

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So ...
STEVE LACY

Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There a...
SARAH LACY

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
STEVE LACY

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
STEVE LACY

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
STEVE LACY

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
STEVE LACY

A lot of Americans desperately want to believe that China is full of poor people who can't innov...
SARAH LACY

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to g...
SARAH LACY

The net effect was to induce a tightening mode in the markets, in bank lending and in total bank res...
LACY HUNT

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.
SARAH LACY

We feel very humble the hospitals have held this reception for us. We don't want the hospitals to be...
LACY HARBER

We play better at home, but this is a chance for us to get away and focus. This is better for us.
LACY MINGEE

And the hype got to us a little bit last time.
LACY MINGEE

There's a physical aspect to these two teams, so we go back-and-forth a lot. We're very similar.
LACY MINGEE

Council needs to keep looking and keep encouraging as developers come forth. There's not an awful lo...
LACY KING

We've got somewhere around 2,500 housing starts in this community - which is phenomenal. This is gro...
LACY KING

It's going to be a busy four years.
LACY KING

We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,
LACY HUNT

The risk to the economy is that we lose the consumer -- and I think we are losing the consumer.
LACY HUNT

The economy's not doing well, so it's appropriate to do what you can. But the notion that deficit sp...
LACY HUNT

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 199...
LACY HUNT

The country is entering a period of debt deflation, where households and businesses are forced to mo...
LACY HUNT

In the past two years, we've seen the budget go from surplus to deficit, adding about $400 billion o...
LACY HUNT

I don't think any benefit of the dividend tax elimination is worth the increase in the deficit.
LACY HUNT

This economy is too fragile to sustain this type of severe rate rise; the consumer sector is leverag...
LACY HUNT

It's always good to have all aspects of the game come together and mold together. When we get all co...
LACY HOWARD

I feel like all nine players on the lineup can produce; we can't depend on one person to [score runs...
LACY HOWARD

I am very happy with the way we're playing. We've all come together. We all know our role. That's th...
LACY HILL

We have to move on. It's a great game, we won. We'll celebrate, but (today) we have to go back to pr...
LACY HILL

It was a very big game to us, probably pride-wise more than anything. We went down to their house an...
LACY HILL

Scottish Rite Hospital for Children took me in. I wore a brace for seven years.
LACY HARBER

We are leaving each hospital $5 million in a trust, but this could be increased each year. We will k...
LACY HARBER

These are girls just starting to figure out who they are as individuals. who they are as people. The...
LACY ASBILL

It?s an unfortunate fact that most kids don?t get the level of support they need at this time in the...
LACY ASBILL

We're seeing loss of interest in school at a younger and younger age.
LACY ASBILL

We will still fight on November 5th. Everyone had
been telling me all along to have a backup p...
JEFF LACY

I can't get up for training unless I'm in a big fight, and this is going to be a fight fans want to ...
JEFF LACY

I suspected all along that Calzaghe didn't want any of this. I kinda prepared myself for it but it i...
JEFF LACY

Jim has never taken a dime from either one us, ... In fact, he's given us more money than we could e...
JEFF LACY

It's like driving. You either get in an accident or you don't.
JEFF LACY

It is an honor for me to fight in the (Tampa) bay area, ... It's something I always dreamed of doing...
JEFF LACY

I think my performance I put on tonight spoke for itself [on what he would like to say to Joe Calzag...
JEFF LACY

I took his best shots and he couldn't take mine. That was the difference of the fight. I get stronge...
JEFF LACY

I was thrilled. I'd gotten to a point in my life where I wanted to make a difference and give back i...
LAURA LACY

Jim Busch has more personality in his little paw than I would hope for in a lifetime.
LAURA LACY

All their defenses are down. There's no more big, tough driver. You see the hearts of these guys. It...
LAURA LACY

It's a community unlike anything I've ever seen.
LAURA LACY

You wouldn't believe how many of these drivers have animals and how important it is for them to have...
LAURA LACY

Karen has this amazing ability to capture certain things, certain emotions, even in animals, that ar...
LAURA LACY

An economy that was clearly bad has gone to worse after those (Sept. 11) tragedies took place,
ALAN LACY

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

You know, I was gonna get sick or I was gonna get injured or something. The only choice I had, the o...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecess...
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each ev...
WILLIAM BROYLES JR

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than th...
WILLIAM TOBY JR.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Vigorous writing is concise.
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.

Omit needless words.
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will a...
WILLIAM STRUNK JR.

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i...
CLAY SHIRKY

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to hav...
CLAY SHIRKY

With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire...
CLAY CLARK

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; fro...
HENRY CLAY

Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each ...
CLAY CLARK

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
HENRY CLAY

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
HENRY CLAY

I'd rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
HENRY CLAY

There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, ...
HENRY CLAY

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not th...
CLAY SHIRKY

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.
CLAY GUIDA

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp...
CLAY AIKEN

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no We...
HENRY CLAY

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of characte...
HENRY CLAY

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but ...
HENRY CLAY

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global ...
CLAY AIKEN

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and ...
CLAY SHIRKY

rock 'n' roll of comedy.
ANDREW CLAY

We celebrated holidays together, ... He came over to my house all the time.
ANDREW CLAY

Eleanor and I were fighting about her not knowing how to cook, and Freddy was sitting there watching...
ANDREW CLAY

There was a coolness about him, ... He used to wear these sunglasses and these shirts that had pictu...
ANDREW CLAY

I don't drink to get happy or to forget the pain. I drink to stop the voices in my head. Do you know...
ANDREW CLAY

If you are a company of the size where you can bang a drum and get politicians interested over here ...
ANDREW CLAY

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...
CLAY AIKEN

I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.

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William Lacy Clay, Jr.

I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.

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