Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Mark DiCamillo

People have pretty much adjusted to the risk factor of earthquakes and go about their daily lives.

Mike Flaherty

Stagg is a well coached team. We went to a trap and they adjusted and then we went to man-to-man and they adjusted again. I had hoped we could get a cushion because you knew they would come back. Williams did it when Rush wasn't shooting well lately, but they were on him and didn't give him many good looks. But when he started to score, it opened up things for the others.

Ethan Harris

Rising rates could have a tremendous impact on slowing consumer spending. Consumer spending has been about 6 percent, when adjusted for inflation. Rising rates could bring it down to 2 or 3 percent.

Russell Sheldon

Retail hiring between October and December was by far the smallest in years. We wonder if those 'not hired' for Christmas will 'not be let go,' as traditionally would happen, in January. If so, that will look like a gain in the seasonally adjusted numbers.

Jim Schwartz

Players have already adjusted to the rules changes from 2004. They've developed alternate techniques that can be effective but less likely to draw an illegal-contact flag.

Linda Smith

We never subbed, but they adjusted on the field to a position they felt they were better at.

Meg Casper

I went to Texas schools and came to Louisiana and I adjusted just fine. There was not culture shock.

Stephen Stanley

January auto sales were clearly much better than expected. We are on a pace to see a month-to-month increase in the seasonally adjusted sales pace, perhaps to around 17.7 million units or so.

Chris Collins

That was definitely the biggest exchange of the game. That was a six-point play and it finally gave us some breathing room. Give N.C. State a lot of credit as they came in here with a great game plan and adjusted to everything we tried.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

John Malone

Our contract has been placed in jeopardy as a result of Delta's petition for bankruptcy protection, ... The fight that has just begun will be intense and difficult.

Ken Heebner

Most of these companies are losing money, ... The ones that don't go bankrupt will be selling for $5 or $10 a share a year from now.

Tara Gruber

I think they are morally bankrupt to do this to their customers and to their passengers.

Jeff Lungren

It is a push by bankruptcy opponents to try and delay the implementation, more so than a good-faith effort to help Katrina victims.

Luc Despins

I think there's a violation of the bankruptcy code. This court should direct those funds be returned to RCM immediately. This seems like a no-brainer.

Michael Cox

It goes to show that proper planning, being able to weather the inevitable ups and downs of the business, is vital. Those that do survive bankruptcy addressed their costs and strategic issues in a comprehensive manner. That's how Continental approached its restructuring.

Chris Lozier

I think this certainly has to make management think a lot harder about bankruptcy. I think it's definitely better than a 50-50 chance that they'll go bankrupt before the end of this year.

Yang Jiechi

President Bush's visit has greatly increased mutual understanding, deepened mutual trust and strengthened co-operation between China and the United States ,

Jim Collins

Part of the path higher has been helped by the news from China that they don't plan to lighten their load of Treasuries.

Patrick McGovern

Our operations in China are indistinguishable from any of the 84 countries where we operate, ... We've never had any problems with the Chinese government restricting what we were doing or any incidents where proprietary information was lost.

David Li

Supply-chain management with China as the focus has remade the face of world trade.

Fu Mengzi

Such frequent high-level contacts between China and the United States are really rare in the history of their relations,

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Patricia Russo

Some of our recent wins in China demonstrate our services capabilities,

Richard Boucher

Our goal in sponsoring this resolution is to encourage China to take positive, concrete steps to meet its international obligations, to protect human rights, and fundamental freedoms of the Chinese people.

Theresa Mellott

Our goal in life has been to see the world. As a kid you said you wanted to dig to China. Well, I wanted to see what China looked like, so that was one of the first places we went. We raised our children, got them through college, then we climbed the Great Wall, did the whole thing. And we gutted the house.

Kevin Beary

Our No. 1 priority throughout this crisis was to secure the release of all parties involved,

Mao Qun'an

Our news release mechanism has improved a lot since the SARS crisis and the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. We will try to do better in the future.

Jane Leavy

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

Carlos Ghosn

Renault is not in crisis, but Renault is fragile.

Abdul Jalil

Resignation of the government is the only way to solve the present crisis.

Michael Chertoff

We now know people need gas during emergencies and they have a responsibility - those people who run stations and ultimately those people who provide the fuel - have responsibility to hold up their end when a crisis comes.

Kuniko Inoguchi

I think there is a sense of crisis.

Roger Altman

The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

John Zogby

It isn't important until there's a crisis on the radar screen. Otherwise, it's really like an orphan.

Carmelo Anthony

Regardless of who it was, I was going to the hole. They weren't going to stop me that time. I was either going to get a foul or a dunk.

Jamie Dixon

Records on the road usually aren't as good as records at home. We want to be undefeated on the road well but we had all five games down to the last minute. They could have gone either way.

Marty Barnes

Really you don't want to reflect too much on either the wins or the losses after they happen. At the next practice you have to start getting ready for the next opponent.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

Parliament will reconvene either on Wednesday or Thursday when possibly a new government will be formed.

F. Schumacher

Park Rapids runs an unbalanced line formation trying to outnumber you on either side of the line. We have to be disciplined on defense.

Amy Taylor

Part of that patience is we're looking at the post more. And our posts are either finishing or getting the foul.

Carla Sullivan

People haven't been complaining. Either they don't care, or they know it is right for the students.

Michael Chertoff

People have got to take some responsibility for preparing themselves, ... That means you get yourself three days' worth of food, three days' worth of water; you get yourself flashlights, batteries, either a hand-crank radio or a battery-powered radio, a first-aid kit precisely because you know it's going to take 48 to 72 hours to be able to fully service everyone.

Victoria Chan

People have to either lose weight, or we have to use longer needles.

Sharon Bolton

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Darrell Smith

People may lie to you over the phone, but they may not lie to you looking at you face to face.

Paul Nocito

St. Anthony's was one of the better shooting teams we have faced this year.

Dick Todd

Stan Jonathan was one of the toughest guys I've ever seen, but after a fight his face would look like it had gone through a Mixmaster. Tie never got a scratch on him.

Ivette Mendez

Some of the faces that remain are those that Jon felt could do that job best. He wasn't going to replace people just to replace people.

Bob Coolen

Our players are ready to face somebody else.

Jason Bay

Roger wasn't as sharp as the other times we've faced him,

Ned Yost

Rodriguez was really good today. The last time we faced him he was just OK.

Richard Tischler

Playing a quality team like Marietta really boosted our guys up. We had four tough games that started (Tuesday) with Marietta, and Marietta was a measuring stick for us and the toughest team we faced so far.

Joseph Balestrino

It is a realization that there are inflation headwinds out there.

Hans Olsen

It all leads to the idea that inflation isn't so bad. That supplies some push for the market.

Michael Moskow

If inflation expectations did become unhinged, this might require a stronger response,

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Philip Shaw

Last month's inflation report ... (was) about as strong an endorsement of steady rates as one is likely to see.

Mark Cliffe

His reputation as an arch-dove on inflation is rather misleading.

Joseph Tan

One to two percent inflation is still very tolerable.

Alice Rivlin

No one's really worried about inflation right now.

Mark Zandi

The overall CPI does not reflect the inflation most seniors face.

Brian Owens

Pillow Girl. It's a statement on sexuality and femininity, the oppression of women. It lets you read so many things into it.

Craig Schmugar

It does not do a whole lot right now, but we will see a different type of virus down the road because of this. This is forward-looking, but it lets people know there will be attacks.

Larry Hackett

He lets people (in the prison) know what he is called.

Dave Duncan

He lets me do my thing. If there's something he sees that he wants done, then he lets me know that he wants it done and I try and get it done. I'm open-minded to what he has to say.

Larry Ellison

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

Bobby Abreu

He makes the players feel relaxed and lets them play the game. He doesn't put pressure on the players. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, a manager will push you. He just talks to you about it like nothing happened.

Crystal Smith

We're proud that the team has the name Seminole because it represents us and lets the world know about the Seminole people. I think it's great. There is nothing offensive about it. Most of my friends and relatives are FSU fans, but we do have some UM fans, too.

Joni Pitkanen

Oh, yeah. He lets you know when you make mistakes. It was tough for me, but I didn't know what he was saying because I didn't know English.

Jim Proce

She lets me know if there are any problems.

David Dreman

Stay in the stock market, in the oil sector.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Cleave

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

There is no friendship in trade.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Marissa Mayer

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.