Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bass

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

Bill Cheney

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Jeff Morris

Refineries lost a lot of money. In fact they lost money for most of the 1990s. People chose not to spend on refineries. So what's affecting us now is that we're behind the investment curve and it will take us five to 10 years to catch up.

Jack Smith

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We're particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Wade Henderson

President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

Chris Winans

Our own court filings on this matter speak for themselves.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Steven Cron

Paula is eager to have her day in court and we are ready to get started.

O. Henry

Our motto is keep kids on the court and out of court.

Sean Williamson

Springdale is just so big and strong that there's no way that we could win a half court game with them. It had to be full court, and we were able to dictate the tempo with some full-court pressure.

David Vitter

Our goal is to have a full and fair debate vote in September, ... If Judge Roberts is to be confirmed, we'd like to have him on the court by the time it goes back into session Oct. 3.

Taurean Green

Our front court guys have been playing great as of late, but teams are going to start to key on them. When they get doubled, the guards are going to have to knock down some shots.

Dmitry Rogozin

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

Stan Carpenter

Our ultimate goal, like most teams, is to make it to the state championship. We think we have a shot. We also have a lot to work on, too. We can't just walk out on the court and expect to win.

Stanley McClover

Our reputation to the Big 10 is that we're just fast and soft. We take offense to that. We've got to go out and set the tone on Wisconsin real early.

Kerry Collins

Sure, wer'd like to have a fast start, ... We'd like to be 16-0. But it's a long season. Hopefully, we get better as it goes along.

Kerry Collins

Sure, we'd like to have a fast start. We'd like to be 16-0. But it's a long season. Hopefully, we get better as it goes along.

Michael Redd

Starting out fast was key. That was big. We really didn't let them have a run throughout the game. Tonight felt really good. It showed what can happen when we start out fast.

O. Henry

Some kid is going to take him out really fast one of these times, and he'll be all right. He'll stick with him and run a 44.5 or something.

Evan Harrison

Our stripped series has taken off even faster than we had originally anticipated.

Raymond Gilmartin

Our goal is not to be just one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, but also to be one of the fastest growing,

Chris Richard

Our four big guys can run with guards. And we all know it, so when we go on a fast break, it's like a track meet with us running side by side down court.

Tom Brady

Playing this team as many times as we have in the last few years, ... we realize how physical they are, and they're fast and they're disciplined. They're very well coached. It is going to be quite a challenge.

Sirio Maccioni

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

Stephen Kinzer

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

John Linder

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

Stephen Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong

Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

Hilary Clinton

I will be working with Senator Menendez to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments.

Minoru Morita

Koizumi's victory means Japan will now, more than ever, take orders from the United States in its foreign policy -- including keeping troops on in Iraq.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Jeff Gundy

Like most American or foreign players, he understands about half of what I say.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Alec Burnside

Part of the plan is to move from processing and notification ... and have people go out and look for cartels.

Richard Cizik

Our movement is trying to talk about (environmental issues) in real ways and not in negative terms. Disengagement is not an option.

Dee Brown

People move on and you've got to realize you have to work with what you've got.

Chris Klein

People move forward, people move on, it's what we do.

Kunihiro Hatae

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

Steve Helton

Survival. Whether it's one point or 10 points, in a tournament like this you just want to survive and move on to the next round.

John Tortorella

Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.

Bill Foster

Our system is not broken. It works. And it moves a lot of people.

Mamoru Ashimoto

Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.

Mark Leyner

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

Thomas O'Brien

He has a young outlook on life. He's just a wonderful, wonderful role model. He's just young at heart.

Alan Greenspan

More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation,

Anna Mouglalis

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.

Aubrey Plaza

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Christian Maher

The outlook is worse than we had hoped.

Stuart Murray

The outlook for the remainder of the year is positive.

Tom Tang

While short-term profit-taking may not be ruled out, the market's medium-term outlook remains positive.

George Benson

The outlook for Georgia, I'm pleased to say, is good.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Sara Brown

For those of us who support the Kittery Police, an investigation is even more important,

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Nicolas Sarkozy

If someone shoots at the police, he is not a 'youth,' he is a thug,

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Dwight Mitchell

We haven't ruled out anything at this stage.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

Gary Owens

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.