Fiscal Quotations | Page 8

Our broad concern remains that looking forward, it will be difficult on present policies, in our view, for the UK to meet its fiscal rules.

Our company has weathered one of the most difficult quarters in history, marked by recession and war. The remainder of the fiscal year should benefit from operating improvements currently under way, as well as favorable trends for some of our most important products and brands.

Otherwise a spend-prone fiscal policy teamed with a pro-growth monetary policy could be problematic for the U.S. economy and currency ahead.

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.

Local people have to make monetary and fiscal spending in order to attract outsiders to do the same thing. There is still plenty of land available.

Longer term, trends underlying the home improvement industry remain favorable for continued sales and market share growth at The Home Depot, ... We remain committed to our goal of 23 to 25 percent earnings per share growth for fiscal 2001.

Looking to the remainder of our fiscal year, we anticipate stronger fourth quarter sales, but expect a much weaker third quarter in light of continued delays in our customers' purchasing decisions. In response, we have cut back our production of potash and phosphates to limit increases in our inventories, especially because of current high raw material costs, and to better match supply with current purchasing activity. As a consequence, the industry may face acute logistical challenges when spring season begins if domestic shipments don't accelerate soon.

Log Cabin's accounting shell game will not cover up Grover's act of utter betrayal of the Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives.

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.