Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Erwin

Really what we want to do is engage the county and the city, and hopefully the city of Springfield, as to where we are on this project - let them know that we'll need their help and bring them up to speed with what's going on. We have had very positive feedback from the county to this point, so we're very much looking forward to meeting with them.

Laura Campbell

Relieved is a strange thing to say - you really don't feel that. It kind of brings everything back. It's a different kind of grieving.

Vishal Wanchoo

Our relationship with MP4 demonstrates GE's continued commitment to personalized healthcare by providing transformational medical and information technologies to bring our customers closer to their patients.

Wade Henderson

Organizations like those who have set up these protection initiatives are trying to sound the alarm. We want the country prepared to bring these elections systems under heightened scrutiny.

Michael Laws

Patched gang members are criminals...that's what they are, that's what they do...they exist for no other purpose but to bring mayhem and disorder.

M. Wolfe

Pastor's School brings more than a million dollars in tourist money to Northwest Indiana.

Rob Portman

Pascal Lamy will bring a new aggressiveness to the job,

John Rogers

Pay By Touch is changing the way the world transacts. We are truly honored to showcase our innovative payment service at The Tech, because it brings this significant payment shift into perspective. More consumers will have an opportunity to experience a revolutionary technology that we expect will become common practice for everyone within the next few years.

Matt Kane

Paul has been a nice surprise. He grew up playing goalie and brings a lot of experience.

Anthony Hitt

Our new app increases the exposure of Engel & Volkers' premier services and properties to the growing number of iPad users who are researching their real estate markets, locally and globally.

William Cheney

People have been talking, talking, talking about real estate as a way of getting rich.

Sharon Stewart

People move to Riviera Estates for peace and quiet. And no kids.

Virginia Postrel

Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.

Mark Toigo

Some of the growers are taking big hits and they're tired of it, and now they're seeing real estate pressure.

Dorothy Ellington

Our role is to provide housing. It does not change. If it changes, then we go out of business. That was our pre-Carver Estates demolition goal, and that will be our post-Carver Estates demolition goal.

Walter Molony

Our survey doesn't explain why. It gets down to being as simple as women have a better understanding of housing as a long-term investment. Single guys are more interested in consumption. They don't get serious about real estate until they meet the right woman.

Bill Strauss

Most of the real estate they own is well-located real estate. There's room in this market for more than one grocery store chain.

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Ben Bernanke

Roger made invaluable contributions to the Federal Reserve and to the country.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

George H. W. Bush

I think the most important thing government can do is provide flexibility for federal monies.

Glenn Tilton

reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built.

Hilary Clinton

Passing this legislation today is an important step in making sure that these families, who have been through so much, receive the financial relief that they need.

Sunil Reddy

Oracle is essentially trying to get rid of a competitor. This is more of a financial transaction than a technology transaction.

Thomas McInerney

Some of this may be because financial planning is confusing,

Doreen Toben

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Trevor Fetter

Our financial results for the quarter were severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Toni Simonetti

Our financial performance is unacceptable, we know that and we've been working hard to turn around North American operations to improve our financial performance,

Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Sergei Kiriyenko

I think there remain no organizational, technical or financial problems on the joint venture establishment.

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.

Jose Dizon

Our generating units are running harder. They're getting older and they require more maintenance.

Alex Miller

I was having a hard time generating power between the shots that I was getting and the wind. I usually play more of a power game. I'm not really a consistency-type player.

Kevin Hall

From what I remember about Ronald Reagan, the last thing he would want is for 50 states to expend resources and time generating pretty proclamations that have no practical impact.

Kim Weston

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Joey Estrella

If we don't score it doesn't matter how much they score. We're not generating and putting any pressure on their defense. If we can't do that, we can't be successful.

Timothy Johnson

If they're able to sell these at a 10% premium, while also squeezing more units into the building, that's generating much more dollars.

Tom Tintor

We are not generating the number of shots we need to get. When you only take 50 shots we are not in good shape we need to take 70.

Scott Burns

The reason they went with Buckley was that now that they're a lean mean machine, it's time to start growing that top line and generating some returns.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon. We owe it to the people who need to make a long-term investment in mining in this country.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Harvey Pitt

We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups,

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Phil Ramon

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Silvan Shalom

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Daymond Langkow

Our little one doesn't really like to travel, so going to Mexico would be a little tough. It'll be nice to have some time off.

Michael Roberts

I find there's always something to do in Mexico City, at any hour.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Rob Allyn

We only read about problems on the border, drug smuggling, poverty and immigration, and we don't see that Mexico in many ways is a solution for the United States as much as it is a problem.

Stephen Kinzer

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Robert Brown

Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

Oscar Martinez

We must work with Mexico as a partner, be respectful to Mexico and not treat them as a subordinate.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Gennady Zyuganov

Our stance remains unchanged. (Chernomyrdin) doesn't even understand the program he has proposed.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Lou Holtz

I think that win really turned our program around,

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Ken Buck

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Shakira

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Dave Kaplan

I'm all for promoting Kodiak fish. I always have been.

David Blunkett

No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,

Simon Lock

We've been heavily promoting it around the region.

Derek Sivers

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Tom Lehrer

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

Charlize Theron

really related to that kind of strength in women.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Hans Trousil

We have been working to keep the tax levy down.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.