At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. – Adam Schiff
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process. – Blanche Lincoln
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. – Booker T. Washington
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the ‘Times’ obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance. – Billy Collins
To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks. – Alex Gibney
Leaders at the top of al Qaeda’s hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins – botulinum and salmonella – and the chemical poison cyanide. – Barton Gellman
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war. – Ann Coulter
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren’t top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. – Bill Sienkiewicz
Even though they won’t finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. – Alan Hansen
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. – Bill Rodgers
I’ve never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head. – Autre Ne Veut
Of all the places I’ve been, India is the one that’s on the top of my list to return to. – Brandon Stanton
I don’t write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. – Andrew Bird
I watch people from the top of buses who don’t know they’re being watched. It’s quite fascinating. – Celia Imrie
Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top. – Nile Rodgers
I think about what I say. I don’t give stock answers. I’m not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do. – David Duval