Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

Vince Sollitto

Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.

Hector Flores

Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.

James Williams

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Ram Kolluri

SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Pope Benedict

No pope ever left us as many texts as he did; no pope in the past was able to visit all the world like he did and to speak directly to men of all continents. But in the end, he was struck by the path of suffering and silence.

Robert Patrick

For something like 15 years, all I did was films or, you know, movies that I thought were going to be films that ended up going directly to video. It was sort of a real narrow opportunity. And now, working on The X-Files has broadened it and I'm looking for whatever is good, good dialogue.

Ronald Kessler

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Stephanie Nelson

If they can get you to go directly to their Web site that's pretty strong marketing. And, it's inexpensive for them.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Woody Smith

Last year we had one senior, and this year we have six. Last year, we learned a lot from the Southeast game (final season loss) and the players want redemption. Our goal is to win districts and put something together in the playoffs.

Peter Erben

Last year, there were a number of districts where the vote did not take place. This year we hope we can do it in all of them,

Kelly Avants

We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.

Lisa Jackson

She gave me all the names of the school districts and told me to apply.

Wayne Jones

If we can get the 16 other districts to do it, we've accomplished something.

David Valadao

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

Russell Schweiss

This would essentially make the drawing of districts a judicial function. The Governor does not feel that this should be a judicial function.

David Goodman

(The penalty) was a misunderstanding on the second hole. I was pleased with the way I played. I didn't shoot lights out but I'm happy to be going to districts again. It's nice a teammate (Karsten Reis) made it too so I won't be going alone. Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

Jack Foster

We still have some work to do to be ready for districts this week, but we will be ready.

Dennis Miller

My interest is that there has to be some funding source in perpetuity that could maintain the land in Town Center.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Dave Coleman

I hate to see the funding cut, but it will probably be.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Seth Shostak

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

Don Smithburg

We need funding to partially restore New Orleans.

Rachel Bronson

We know wealthy Saudis are funding terror. With higher oil prices, they just have more money to do so.

Dennis Schain

We know there's more need than funding available.

Patricia Hewitt

We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Yajur Veda

May all the radiance unify and increase in magnitude.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Masao Nakamura

Next year is going to be the peak year in many different ways. We're seeing a steep increase in 3G users now, so we have to keep the momentum going next year.

William Roth

let Americans keep more of what they earn, and use their money as they see fit.

James Hong

Sentiment is weak right now and we're seeing a lot of short-term retail money selling.

Adrienne Worthy

One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.

Kevin Krewell

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

Bob Hall

Obviously, you've got to have some money for a state-wide race, but the point is to have it not be an auction.

Mike Blum

No one really makes money on shorts. Probably one in 10,000, at the most.

Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Cindy Hall

One time we saved up enough money for a saw.

Michael Arcuri

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kim Brown

The only request is they make it healthy.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Debbie Breen

We've had so many requests for groceries. The groceries take up one-third of the store.

Tony Ierulli

Seven interceptions has got to be a school record.

Chuck Eddy

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

David Walliams

When I was at school I was watching The Young Ones,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Chris Cuomo

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

Chris Crutcher

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Charles Spurgeon

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Charles Morgan

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.