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Ultimately the buck stops with the president. If people are upset about the economy and want to blame someone, that someone is probably going to be the president,

Until Canada ends its unfair practices, the U.S. lumber industry will never stop insisting that action be taken under U.S. trade laws to fully offset the subsidies and dumping.

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

The one thing you realize when you play with Sean is how good a hockey player he is when he's not doing all the other stuff. Sean can score, he's got skill and he has unbelievable speed. And when he uses those tools, he's tough to stop out there.

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.

The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.

We still lag behind foreign rivals in terms of per-share earnings, and we would like to expand our earnings to join the global top five.

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.