It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

- Andy Stern

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

- Bonnie Hunt

We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

- Ban Ki-moon

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

- Asa Hutchinson

Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.

- Aja Naomi King

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

- Alex Morrison

I think that the line between television and features started to blur a couple years ago. The standards started to become the same, which is that the idea had to be very loud. The show didn't have to be loud; the idea had to be loud. It had to cut through the clutter.

- Alex Kurtzman

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

- Anthony Carmona

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

- Aleksander Kwasniewski

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

- Andy Summers

There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

- Abby Wambach

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

- Amy Klobuchar

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

- Amber Heard

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

- Alan Ball

I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.

- Alain Ducasse

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

- Aisha Tyler

The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

- Aaron Levie

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

- Alan Greenspan