Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Charles de Secondat

Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
Payne Stewart

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
Judy Biggert

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
Jay Chiat

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.
Renny Harlin

So don't applaud. Just send me the check.
Broderick Crawford

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
Gavin DeGraw

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
Taylor Hanson

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.
Rick Wagoner

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
A. E. van Vogt

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.
Mickey Rivers

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
Jerry Rubin

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
Jock Sturges

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Amy Goodman

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Ken Kesey

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.
Michael D. Barnes

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers