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To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. -- Christine Todd Whitman
Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades. -- Tom Wigley
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I am not accustomed to protocol. -- Evo Morales
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol. -- Enric Sala
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. -- Judith Martin
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. -- Robert A. Heinlein
...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance... -- Jacques Chirac
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process. -- Laurent Fabius
Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol. -- Stephen Harper
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. -- William Nordhaus
Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol. -- Kofi Annan
We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol. -- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. -- Elsa Maxwell
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. -- Andrey Illarionov
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. -- Al Gore
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. -- Goran Persson
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law. -- Ban Ki-moon
It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere. -- Eileen Claussen
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. -- John Charles Polanyi
I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world. -- Kelli White
The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements. -- Andrey Illarionov
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet. -- Jon Postel
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace. -- Jacques Chirac
In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world. -- Jennifer Morgan
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch. -- Michel Patini
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. -- Hans Blix
When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist. -- Nancy Pelosi
In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences. -- Chris Avellone
I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action. -- Barry Sternlicht
Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem. -- Mario J. Molina
Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions. -- William Nordhaus
With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach. -- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. -- Lou Gerstner
The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. -- Ellen Gallagher
Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness. -- Darren McFadden
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. -- Joel Salatin
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age. -- Carl Sagan
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology. -- Michael K. Powell
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. -- Paul Nurse
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. -- Sally Quinn
To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard. -- Russell Brand
[ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.... -- Claude Levi-Strauss
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century. -- Henry Sylvester Jacoby
The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement. -- Ronald Reagan
I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed. -- William Thompson
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow. -- Robin Wright
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. -- Joel Salatin
I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them. -- Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
I'm not the one to always follow professional protocol - but I do know what it is, even at 24 years old. -- Kevin Love
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops. -- Douglas Brinkley
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. -- Tim Bray
Social media is an information channel; it's like radio or TV... In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol. -- Sandra Lerner
It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol. -- Kathryn Lasky
I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense. -- Kamala Harris
The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day. -- David Rose
I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol. -- Andie MacDowell
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. -- Bill Gates
People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. -- Eric Stoltz
I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary. -- Simon Sinek
Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure. -- Irwin Corey
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients protocol, Geritol and alcohol -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do. -- Joe Teti
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. -- Jose Saramago
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey. -- Patricia Briggs
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement. -- Groucho Marx
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Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. -- Neal Stephenson
I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition. -- Quindon Tarver
This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I'm pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby. -- Mira Grant
Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules. -- Bob Blumer

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