In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

- Alex Berenson

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

- Andrew Lansley

Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.

- Allison Tolman

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

- Alicia Machado

Know yourself to improve yourself.

- Auguste Comte

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

- Ashwin Sanghi

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

- Antoine Lavoisier

So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

- Anne Hathaway

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

- Abraham Lincoln

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

- Ayrton Senna

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.

- Ashton Kutcher

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

- Ashton Kutcher

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

- Arthur Ashe

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

- Arnold Palmer

I've spoken several times with Prime Minister Erdogan about relations between Turkey and Israel. I'm pleased that, following President Obama's visit to Israel, talks between Israel and Turkey are again taking place and hope that relations between them will further improve in the interest of both countries.

- Angela Merkel

Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.

- Andrea Bocelli

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

- Abraham Lincoln