Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Putnam

Reductions in reimbursement can cause momentary disruption in the revenue and income generation for some companies. But by and large, they have learned to offset these pressures.

Michael Osterholm

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Phil Dow

Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast will be a major focus following the destruction caused by hurricanes in the region. This is yet another demonstration of how resilient the economy has been since Sept. 11, 2001.

Pankaj Mishra

Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

James Wolfensohn

Our objectives are one and the same, ... If the protesters took a moment to understand what we do then they might view our cause a little differently.

Bill Clinton

Our objectives are clear. Our forces are strong, and our cause is right.

Gregg Thompson

Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the minimum wage and we feel ... that it will cause job losses in the state.

Larry Craig

Our letter has caused movement, but I'm not sure where that movement will lead.

Judy Daly

Our message is clear: One of the most effective tools in preventing the spread of infection is literally at our fingertips. Just 20 seconds of water, soap and rubbing can really cause an extremely wonderful intervention.

Yang Jiechi

President Bush's visit has greatly increased mutual understanding, deepened mutual trust and strengthened co-operation between China and the United States ,

Jim Collins

Part of the path higher has been helped by the news from China that they don't plan to lighten their load of Treasuries.

Patrick McGovern

Our operations in China are indistinguishable from any of the 84 countries where we operate, ... We've never had any problems with the Chinese government restricting what we were doing or any incidents where proprietary information was lost.

David Li

Supply-chain management with China as the focus has remade the face of world trade.

Fu Mengzi

Such frequent high-level contacts between China and the United States are really rare in the history of their relations,

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Patricia Russo

Some of our recent wins in China demonstrate our services capabilities,

Richard Boucher

Our goal in sponsoring this resolution is to encourage China to take positive, concrete steps to meet its international obligations, to protect human rights, and fundamental freedoms of the Chinese people.

Theresa Mellott

Our goal in life has been to see the world. As a kid you said you wanted to dig to China. Well, I wanted to see what China looked like, so that was one of the first places we went. We raised our children, got them through college, then we climbed the Great Wall, did the whole thing. And we gutted the house.

Fred Upton

Prices are averaging $3.19. It's as high as $3.58 from $2.61 on Tuesday, ... My sense is the supply and demand equation does not fit a 60-cent (a gallon) increase in the last 36 hours.

Robert Greenwald

O'Reilly has simply lost his mind, ... I demand that O'Reilly apologize.

Ashok Kumar

Our lowered expectations imputes a meaningful pickup in demand over the next three weeks.

David Steiner

Supply is not meeting the demand of the industry. We have to wait for material. As we wait, our lead time goes out.

Jim McCann

Supply can never keep pace with demand at this particular weekend,

David Parks

Supply and demand is what drove up the prices. Demand was growing, and supply was staying relatively flat.

John Carson

Suppliers here in Tucson can not keep up with the demand they are only able to produce so much. They can't keep up with the demand.

Simon Derrick

Sterling has been remarkably robust in an environment where it could easily have lost ground, that encourages me that there has been some real underlying support and demand for the currency.

Bob Costello

Our peak demand seasons, when we see the highest diesel prices, are fall and winter. It makes me very nervous to see the prices we are seeing at this time of year, and I'm telling everyone I see no relief in sight.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

Maurice Cheeks

Our turnovers obviously were a big factor in losing the game. We had 14 turnovers at halftime, but our offense went astray.

Junya Tanase

Rising tension (between Iran and the West) could have an impact on oil prices and that is a negative factor for the dollar.

Eric Nicoli

Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.

Pat Buchanan

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Gregg Popovich

Malik can play inside and out. He?s versatile. Not having him for Game 1 was a huge factor for us.

Dave Tippett

We needed for him to be good. We knew that fatigue was going to be a factor on our team and we needed him to give us a chance.

Alec Burnside

Part of the plan is to move from processing and notification ... and have people go out and look for cartels.

Richard Cizik

Our movement is trying to talk about (environmental issues) in real ways and not in negative terms. Disengagement is not an option.

Dee Brown

People move on and you've got to realize you have to work with what you've got.

Chris Klein

People move forward, people move on, it's what we do.

Kunihiro Hatae

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

Steve Helton

Survival. Whether it's one point or 10 points, in a tournament like this you just want to survive and move on to the next round.

John Tortorella

Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.

Bill Foster

Our system is not broken. It works. And it moves a lot of people.

Mamoru Ashimoto

Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Tim Ghriskey

It is a stock that has the potential to disappoint.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Wendy Hall

KBR remains a potential subcontractor for this important work,

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Azim Premji

Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

Mitch Dorger

You can do the math. Supply and demand.

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.