Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

Regarding this joint venture, we have reached a basic agreement. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia.

Tom Daschle

reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Phil Fontaine

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

David Spooner

Our overall goal, as we've said all along, is to reach a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade. The US has been using its right under China's WTO accession agreement to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption, and we will continue to do so as appropriate.

Ross Anderson

Parliament could revisit the Unfair Contracts Act . Consumers are finding that they can't get digital content without signing an end user agreement whose terms and conditions are ridiculous.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Keith Kesler

Part of the agreement with any and all Homeland Security equipment is if they need it, they get it.

Graham Watson

Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards for data protection of EU citizens.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Debbie Wing

Our office of general council will work with the judge to determine how FEMA will respond to the ruling.

Susan Thomas

Our primary objective is to provide the police department with the information they need to enforce the ordinance fairly. The administration and council must provide the department with tools, definitions and intent so they know how to enforce the ordinance.

Mike Jackson

We need an election, not a walk-on. If you only have one person running, people don't know who she is until she's on the council dais.

Kofi Annan

I will leave it to the council to determine what message it wants to send.

Kim Campbell

I think the tribal council should make it the highest priority. That would mean the election results would be a true representation of what tribal members want. As it stands, the election process is tainted.

Steve Shulman

I think the town council couldn't have reacted better.

Kofi Annan

It is a serious matter. And we shouldn't forget that the council as a whole got the resolution only last Monday, ... For them to take time and discuss this issue seriously is something we should be grateful for.

Fred Eckhart

I think there's a lot of room in the mandate as it is for robust action, ... But it's a matter for the council to decide whether they want to make it even more robust.

Silvio Berlusconi

The accession of one of these countries to the UN Security Council runs the risk of embarrassing three or four other countries,

Robin Li

Our strategy has proven to be a winning strategy. We will be able to maintain and expand our position.

Anne Hendricks

It is a pilot program, and we'll be looking at how they do. We're always looking for ways to expand our services.

Charles Prince

Jim is really going to be helping us expand the footprint. We don't need a peacemaker internally.

John Barker

It gives you the opportunity to update your motel. You can expand your motel if the rooms become available.

Robert Brown

I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

Jerry Colangelo

I think he's done a great job of positioning himself in terms of his persona and conduct. In representing his country, he can expand on that.

Stephen Phillips

I'd like to see it expand to include more artists,

Michael Jordan

I am hooked. Next year, I am looking to expand the team, looking to compete. I want to win.

John Trudell

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

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.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Andre Patterson

Starting just helps me get into a rhythm faster. But anything this team needs, I'll sacrifice and do.

Gina Mitchell

Our substitute players have meant so much to this team. You know they are going to play well when you put them in, and it really helps this team out.

Zygi Wilf

Retail helps the stadium. The stadium helps the retail.

Cara Hendry

Playing a team for the first time just helps us get a feel for them.

Kevin Donovan

Pick up the phone and make the call, ... You may have the one piece of information that helps us solve this case.

Chet Faker

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

Kurt Rouhselang

That's a wonderful program that helps kids who are in need. They get it done. I'd like to think this will be a long standing relationship.

Chone Figgins

Listen, I would love to play every day at one position but it's just not happening. Being able to play all these different positions makes it fun. It helps the team and it helps me stay in the lineup.

Alan Mak

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Victor Koo

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Charles Schumer

While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.

Jason Baker

In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,

Hariadi Wibisono

The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.

Alan Greenspan

For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.

Ming Pao

Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.

Christine Johnson

Our students need to see role models. We feel very strongly about that.

Hans Blix

Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Andrew Cohen

I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

William Daley

I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

Dan Jiron

State wild and scenic designation was not considered.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Mary Parker

Our secretaries really know practically everyone who would need to be buzzed in, and if they didn't know them, they could communicate with them through this system, ... It's really state of the art.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Brian Clodi

I want to win the state championship. That's the ultimate goal.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Clint Burgess

I think we can get another state championship. I think that's reachable. That's our goal. The are a lot of obstacles, but I think we can do it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.