James Sullivan Quotations

There are certainly going to be inflows, the question is at what price? As time goes on, it will become a little more difficult to attract foreign funds. That's another way of saying the dollar will fall.

There is certainly nothing from the core inflation numbers to egg the Fed on to keep tightening.

We're looking mainly at renovating Webster and Main streets while taking advantage of the historic architecture.

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Frankly, the risk of a major pickup seems to have faded lately. We haven't gotten more action from energy prices.

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Greenspan gave no hint of an end to tightening.

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time -- that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

We do not believe the apparent weakness in the fourth quarter represents a clear change in the trend.

Those factors caution against extrapolating the third-quarter surge.

You look at this floor and you see a striking polarity. It's the market--people who say they want fuel economy and others who say they want power. We try to give them both.

We expect the net result will be a report that looks neither especially strong nor weak.

The bottom line is housing is not plunging and it's not soaring, ... There are signs that housing is peaking, but there is no evidence that housing is weakening sharply.

At best, it's going to eat into their own sales. People are going out later, and you don't tend to drink Guinness late at night. It's hard to imagine something so similar to Guinness changing that.

It was fun seeing different people and their reactions.

It's not 100 percent clear where housing really is, ... But the weight of the evidence is that it's not as strong as this number on new home sales implies.

The numbers are continuing to signal strength in manufacturing. Inventories are lean, and so if anything, that's going to add to growth for the next several months.

It's certainly consistent with the idea that the upturn has ended, ... These numbers are so volatile that its hard to get caught up with one month too much.

It's certainly consistent with the idea that the upturn has ended.

I don't think either of them tell the real story.

The underlying trend in employment growth is pretty good. With the unemployment rate down to 5 percent and inflation expectations up over the last couple of months, we do see more acceleration in wages. For now the Fed will keep moving on its stated path.

The housing sector in particular appears to be cooling.