Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Bill Johnson

Relative to the overall statewide timber harvest, the net addition is relatively small. There is an effect, but it's a small one and it can be easily mitigated.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Walt Dabney

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

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

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

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

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

Mark Kalwinski

Our quality of life is taking a beating. We're going to lose people and lose businesses if we don't work on improving the area.

Miles White

Our market-leading products and businesses strong results, led by double-digit growth in medical products.

Paul Anderson

Our major businesses contributed to the improved results in 2005. I expect the company to continue on a positive trajectory with an equally strong performance in 2006.

Kevin McMahon

Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit.

Charles Gallagher

Succession, use of outside boards, managing communication -- all of those are related to family businesses as well as private businesses.

George O'Connor

Steve has a good reputation for turning businesses around and creating value for shareholders. His short tenure is surprising and cannot bode well for the share price in the short term.

John Mackey

Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

Ray White

Our target is businesses in Hampton Roads that are growing and expanding that are looking to enter a new market through satellite locations. Our campaign up there is geared to helping to identify those companies that would be interested in increasing market share.

Earl Allen

Our target donor pool is individuals, families, businesses and organizations in Woodford County. 4-H really touches more people than just the current members.

Ian Shepherdson

People have plenty of cash - and the inclination to spend it,

Wayne Fraser

Steel companies need cash to operate. Steel prices fluctuate and steel companies need cash to manage the ups and downs of the historically cyclical market. Raiding cash during good times is short sighted and counter to the long-term interest of the company.

Cai Rumohr

Spinning it off kind of just gives the problems to your shareholders, and a joint venture really doesn't do much for you. The optimal plan would be to sell it and use the cash to reduce debt.

Robert Lane

Our price realization and what our customers are willing to pay for has been very encouraging for us. That's why you see another very good profit year coming up and a lot of cash being generated.

David French

Our focus on these product lines is leading us to sustained profitability, strong gross margins and a solid cash position.

Gary DiCamillo

Our focus is to generate strong positive cash flow and invest in specific market opportunities, such as instant digital printing.

Benjamin Swinburne

Our conviction level has been buoyed by Sirius' fourth-quarter results and long-term free cash flow outlook.

Andy Brough

Overall, the reporting season has been pretty good. There's a lot of cash around at the moment.

Ethel Barrymore

Ring of Fire, The Johnny Cash Musical Show

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Wayne Norris

People live in their homes. People are still buying. Families are still growing.

Edie Ousley

Someone is going to subsidize the home ... and it is going to be the market-rate home buyer. Middle-income families are effectively squeezed out.

Bruce Butterfield

Our research tells us that some 5 million American families are using all-natural gardening methods.

Jamie Johnson

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Matt Murphy

Jennifer Deleon is not a victim in this case, ... Thomas and Jackie Hawks and John Jarvi and their families are the victims in this case.

John Cahill

Language is a barrier, especially in health care. We see a big problem in families relying on their 10 to 12-year-old son to translate.

Phyllis Moen

That works well when one person is a homemaker, ... That frees the other person to pursue their career, the prestige, the job security. And that worked for middle-class families in the middle of the 20th century. But today, there are very few families where there's a full-time homemaker.

Jerry Howard

I think it's very, very important for all families to maintain balance. We all work hard, we want to do well, we want to achieve, but when we lose balance, then it tends to lead to something else and i think that's what happened here.

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.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

William Cowper

Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them

John Challenger

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

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Davitt McAteer

Ordinarily, violations occur on a regular basis. On any inspection, you'll find some. This is not a very huge mine. As the numbers grow in volume, it's something management has to address.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Debbie Metz

People looked at us as if we had grown two heads.

Bill Cosby

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Bill Smith

I think sometimes we overly rely on (test scores), and we think it is the only indicator of a healthy school system, and it's not.

Pavel Kubina

That would be nice. That's a big milestone. You never know. You have to stay healthy and play well enough.

Deborah Moore

I was reading People Magazine, and they were talking about it and how stores can't keep it on the shelves. It's a healthy alternative to the sun, and I wanted to try it.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week. It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

Francis Gannon

I think it was a very healthy thing that we saw this week, ... It was a valuation correction, not a fundamental correction.

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Osama Hamdy

Our research shows that people may have a better outcome losing weight if they increase their intake of lean protein.

Ralf Berchtold

Our strategy is to have more and more people striking on the street each day to increase the pressure on the employers.

Sandra Gordon

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Nicholas Garganas

Risks that could strengthen inflationary pressures have increased after the interest-rate increase in December.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Kelvin Goertzen

We never really see an increase in the number of officers because of the recruitment issue.

Will Power

I think they're trying to strike the right balance. They're trying to increase market penetration and reduce churn by bundling (broadband) with traditional local voice and long distance.

Jean Chatzky

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Lowell Highby

We are looking for more special pictures - ones that would lend themselves to a whole page - of people and unique settings.

William Ward

The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement.

Ronald Jones

The Premier League, for the first time in three years, will have a title sponsor who will also lend support to the senior national team and the U nder-21 team.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Kurt Barnard

It will lend luster to the mall, ... This means Indianapolis has the demographics to support a Tiffany.

Hani Durzy

Some of our competitors have twisted our metrics in the local marketplace. We don't give those numbers out any more for competitive reasons.

Gerald Prolman

Our preference is local. But I can't find any local organic rose farms.

David Passey

Our typical role is to work with the state in support of local and state agencies.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

Xtine Hanson

(It gives) a look at how many Starbucks there are versus how many local stores there are.

Pat Kelly

It has been a problem at local institutions already,

Doug Peterson

It is important for us to support local organic growers and vendors.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Jamelah Leddy

I think there's a lot of value there.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

Sean Bersell

It has always been about value and convenience.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.