Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Kenneth Frazier

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

Dan Senor

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Piero Fassino

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

Gladys Bettis

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

Bill Daly

The fact that only one of the six proposals actually contemplated a salary cap exposes the union for its true motivation - to do everything necessary to precipitate a fight in an attempt to preserve the status quo.

John Williams

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

David Strow

We want to see an offering that attracts the sophisticated customers.

Jeremy Robinson

What the podcast novelists do isn't all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Mario DeRose

Whenever you can get a muni-bond at or over 6 percent, that's a very attractive rate.

Dawn Fernald

We want public input on how do we change the beach in order to promote development . . . and attract more people.

John Brill

We want people to learn about the lessons. A free clinic is a good way to attract people.

Jeff Carter

We want it to be a place where tourists can stop but is useable to people in the valley. We want to make sure that what attracts people here doesn't disappear.

Peter Franck

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.

Dick Cook

The creative legacy of Pirates of the Caribbean has come full circle with the attraction initially inspiring our highly successful film franchise and now the films inspiring exciting additions to the attraction itself.

Spencer Boldman

There are a lot of girls I've found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that's really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift!

Loyola Sullivan

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

Bobby Scott

When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.

Charles Caleb Colton

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Robert Shireman

We've seen a sea change, a real shift over the past generation from a system where less than half of students left with debt and now two-thirds leave with debt. Now, it's become the norm to leave with debt -- and often with a lot of debt.

Jeffrey Sachs

There is no doubt that Malawi needs 100 percent debt cancellation as soon as possible, and I will do everything possible to speed that up.

Ted Cruz

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

David Graeber

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

David Graeber

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Lowell Kalapa

We have programs that are designed to help people recover from their disaster losses. The tax system is not an efficient means of handing out that money, nor is it a way to ensure that money is being used wisely.

Steve Wozniak

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

L'Wren Scott

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

Thomas E. Mann

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Tim Berners-Lee

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Eric Maskin

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

E. F. Benson

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Manish Gupta

We have planned a multi-million dollar investment in this market to set up our distribution hub as well as investment in R&D.

Boris Schlossberg

The fact that it's actually shrinking gives the dollar a short-term boost.

Michael Schultz

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Tom Tryon

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

Todd Nance

We used to play for a dollar a night at the Uptown Lounge in Athens,

David Kyambadde

We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.

Suzy Menkes

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

David Powell

These are the first hints that the end of the hikes may be coming.

Andre Bakhos

Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.

Tom Connor

There's a lot of optimism that the interest rate hikes have slowed the economy.

Alan Skrainka

If you read the speech, he seems to imply that those hikes aren't enough.

Roberto Galvan

The markets are seeing that opposition to tax hikes is very strong. Practically all sectors of society are opposed to the budget.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Michael Blythe

Policymaker's toleration for inflation risks must be lower when the inflation rate is bumping around 3% per annum,

Alice Rivlin

No one's really worried about inflation right now.

Irene Cheung

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

Michael Moskow

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

Joseph Tan

One to two percent inflation is still very tolerable.

Gordon Brown

We have met our inflation target this year every year since 1997.

Mark Zandi

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

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Bob Wheeler

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Ben Horowitz

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.