Mona Williams Quotations

Tom was just ready to retire. And Kevin was one of the outstanding talents that we felt was ready to move into a new role.

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

We are heartsick that this happened and are currently doing everything possible to correct the problem.

Like any company, we want to make sure our associates, customers and local communities feel good about us. This research provided a benchmark to help us understand what we are doing well and where we need to improve.

To further illustrate the bizarre nature of this technical issue, the site is also mapping movies such as 'Home Alone' and 'Power Puff Girls' to African-American-themed DVDs.

Three company officers were terminated and four other associates who were not officers were terminated.

We are disappointed the court did not rule on Wal-Mart's fraud claims against Mr. Coughlin but instead upheld the release agreements on a technicality. We will file an amended complaint with additional evidence of fraud and fraudulent inducement.

We are satisfied that this is being settled as a civil matter. Despite a long, thorough and high-profile investigation, the government has not charged anyone at Wal-Mart with wrongdoing.

We think the report in fact shows that the subsidies are a great thing for us. Do the math and you will see that every dollar invested with Wal-Mart has returned more than $30 for the community. We expect to see lots of other local governments will be asking for that $30 deal.

This whole episode has been embarrassing and painful to us as a company and as individuals.

You can immediately see what's in the top of that closet and pull it down the next season.

We help give struggling families a sense of pride, because our prices enable their children to start school with fresh supplies and new basketball sneakers, so they are no different from other kids. Wal-Mart is good for America, because we are the great equalizer for the people of this country, and no one else has stepped up to that role.

We are trying to make our plans more relevant, accessible and affordable.

Someone we expected to operate with the highest integrity let us down in a very public way. Wal-Mart has high ethical standards and the way we handled this matter makes it clear that every associate will be held to these standards with no exception.

This is a way to offer medical care ... that is accessible and affordable.

This isn't simply a public relations strategy to pretty up an image. Rather, it is an energetic attempt to tell our story and also become a better company in the process.

This isn't really anything new. The unions have tried to organize Wal-Mart associates through the Internet for more than five years . . . with no success. . . . We might be concerned if this group was offering solutions to some of the issues working people face each day, but that is not the case.

This decision makes clear that he was fired for repeatedly making threats of violence against his co-workers and supervisors.

As more and more Americans go to the Internet to get information from varied, credible, trusted sources, Wal-Mart is committed to participating in that online conversation.