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.

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.

Gary Walker

Patients will be notified with additional information (soon).

Chris Brathwaite

Part of this process is looking at staffing needs going forward. We believe the changes will allow stores additional flexibility ... to serve our customers.

Tom Kloza

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Kit Spring

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

Neil Macmillan

Patty's athleticism will really be an asset to our team. I feel that she has a lot of potential. I think she'll develop her hockey skills to a high level of play.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Christopher Cagan

Our nation is a $10 trillion-per-year economy currently possessing $19 trillion in household asset value and $11 trillion in homeowners' equity. Losses of $110 billion - spread over several years - would come to only about one percent of the total national homeowners' equity.

Jeff Smith

Steve said he ran out of running rail where the gap appeared, otherwise it would have been easier and, in my view, that was a good performance beating horses like Asset and Close To You.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Nate Rien

Our passing was awful. It's so undervalued in today's game. We make a lot of careless decisions at times.

Don MacAdam

Our passing was abysmal. Passing is a caring skill. If you care to put the pass on the guy's tape, you can make it. I haven't played a game in 30 years and I know I can do it. I do it in practice every day.

Michael Howe

Our partnership with CVS has been crucial, ... They are visionaries, and their involvement in support of retail-based health care has been huge.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Bret Taylor

Our long-term goal is to have our product give directions that are as good as the taxi driver. Certainly it's not there yet.

Stacey Phillips

Our No. 1 goal is to make the Big Ten Tournament. We haven't been to the tournament since 1997, and that's way too long -- it's unacceptable... We have the talent and we certainly have the pitching.

Robert Edwards

Our new Sprinters are still 'bedding in' so it is too early to talk about their efficiency and fuel economy. But we have certainly been satisfied so far with their overall performance and versatility.

Tony George

Optimistic? It's certainly possible, but it's a long way from there. Everyone would like to see it happen sooner than later... but it's not something you can hurry along.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Praveen Khandelwal

Our movement shows what people, united for a common cause, can do even without the support of political parties.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

William Teague

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Michelle Thomas

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Jaipal Reddy

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Arthur Doyle

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Ron Logan

Right now the competition is such that zero fee in the first year is the most common thing you'll see.

Jerome Bonnafont

President Chirac expressed his hope that the international community would show solidarity with Lebanon on the economic and financial levels.

John Burness

President Brodhead has had a positive influence on town-gown relations. Duke's relations with the Durham community actually have been far stronger than one might have guessed from recent media reports. I suspect that's why despite all the tensions the media describe, the community has not splintered but, in fact, has come together during the current crisis.

Albert Carlson

Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.

Joy Redding

Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month using headlines and pictures from community archives.

Beth Martin

Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and other community social events.

Jennifer Wagner

Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets together to remember who we are and why we are here.

Charlie King

Part of what Mediacom is trying to do is become part of the economic development plans of our communities,

Adrienne Worthy

Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised our profile in the legal community in terms of the work we do and how we are a big part of the justice system.

Jeff Jenkins

Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is healthy.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Paul Kim

Overall pricing increases in broadcasting will be in the mid-to-high single digits, but total dollars are going to be flat,

John Williamson

Ottawa has had a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and surplus dollars should be returned to taxpayers.

David Stern

Maybe if you earn less than eight million dollars you'll get a scholarship from the commissioner,

Neil Anderson

Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to prudently manage the company, putting jobs at risk.

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.

Shane Battier

Pau played a man's game tonight. That's what a franchise player does.

Jack Kelly

I think the (brand) franchise is very much intact. However, I think they have to start performing.

Steve Kelley

He saved this franchise really. I think this franchise would be in L.A now if it weren't for him.

Derrick Brooks

For whatever reason, as a team, we haven't been able to get it done, ... It's one of the things we talked about in training camp, doing things that this franchise has never done before.

Sage Rosenfels

Hopefully this will turn things around and get this franchise back to its winning ways.

Gary Sullivan

He understands because he played for this franchise and knows what it takes to win in this league.

Gary Green

One-third young guys, one-third in the middle and one-third experienced. It's how you keep a franchise consistently good.

Stan Chesley

No outsider has ever seen the profit and loss statement of a franchise or of the league itself.

Jeffrey Lurie

The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.

Stephen Gallagher

Retailers have no pricing power themselves, as evidenced by all the discounts they had to offer to generate holiday sales. In terms of volume, they succeeded, but not at the level of profitability they would have liked.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Ellen Embrey

I think it'll help hopefully generate some response and interest. If that's what it takes, then, obviously it's a good thing.

Darrell Davis

I think it's just a way to generate revenue.

Greg Hirsch

I thought we did everything possible to generate offense.

Koyie Hill

More than anything I want to be on a team that I can help win. You want to feel like you're a part of something and feel like you generate some of that team's success by what you do.

Sam Altman

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

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.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Ruth King

We think it's real important to make a welcoming home.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.