David Butler Quotations

We started out good so we wouldn't get trampled,

New pandemic outbreaks will occur in the future. What we don't know is when or its severity or how soon it might occur,

Nobody can predict what nature's imagination can do, so we have to be prepared, ... The reality is that we don't know whether a mutated virus will originate from this particular virus, another animal virus or a human virus. This doesn't change the need for our advance planning and preparation in order to minimize the impact.

If the safety inspection isn't perfect, if the weather isn't perfect, that tanker waits,

But the growth in satellite radio has shown that people will pay for it if we give them more choices and better technology.

His was a very matter-of-fact approach, where he used very deadpan images, but they pack a lot of punch. He was very good at catching a low moment. It's almost a photojournalism approach, but his work really falls into fine art photography.

People are leaving for the same reasons they always have: they want more space and freedom.

To me this millipede is more the kind of thing that Tom is famous for. It is a little weird, it's cute, and it's a little threatening, this giant bug that could eat you -- but it's also wearing little shoes and a bowler hat. It's whimsical and frightening at the same time.

XM has always had an enormous push during the holiday season, but this holiday campaign is our biggest holiday marketing push yet. This is a marketing campaign aimed directly at holiday shoppers.

Who's going to be taking the haircuts? It's going to be the pensioners.

We knew it would translate well to radio, but what we didn't expect was the personal and emotional reaction we got from listeners - people telling us they feel like kids again listening to the ballgames on the radio. We hear that especially from displaced fans - a Dodgers fan who lives in Dallas or a Red Sox fan who lives in Los Angeles.

While we consider AOL's announcement a step in the right direction, it is still hard to trust AOL's motives to do what's best for competition as opposed to what's in their best interest. They are not interested in a legal obligation.

(Bird flu) is a smaller challenge at one level in the sense that we are better prepared, we have better knowledge, we are -- at least in our part of the world -- healthier than people were in 1918,

They are an extremely safety conscious company, ... They have funded our department with a lot of training and equipment. If I need it, they get it.

The second stage will be to set targets within each jurisdiction that reflect its own needs and priorities with scope for collaborative efforts.

Originally, XM was simply a service that delivered music, sports and talk radio to cars and eventually the home.

This further distinguishes XM Radio from the competition. It gives audiophiles one more reason to get XM.

They need to sell a lot of stuff to get down to the shrink-wrapped size they need to be to make a return to stockholders,

That form was very much generated by his interactions with the site. I would never start out by saying, 'We want it to look like this.' You have to let an artist do what they are good at.

It's a new idea of supplying non-drinking water in an urban environment.

It's time to have fun, to dive into the mud. you wear all of your old stuff,

The U.S. has emerged as a huge import market for thermal coal, providing very attractive regional growth potential.

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Skeptics said nobody would pay for TV when they could get it for free,

In many cases the investment banks are actually helping those that leave so that they can get something out of it by way of prime brokerage fees.

Before the season even starts, we plan everything.