Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Miller

Send (your negotiator) back to the bargaining table with some direction, some ideas, some flexibility and some willingness to reach an agreement.

David Cole

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone. The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

David Cole

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

Rocco Calo

Negotiators were prepared to discuss that issue today, but Sikorsky would rather play games than engage in good-faith bargaining that would get people back to work.

Arleen Starr

If they ratify, we have a new collective bargaining agreement.

Marco Trbovich

If they had been part of our union, they might not be in the position they are in today. They did not have company-wide leverage in the discussions about their future. USW workers are protected because we have company-wide leverage. It's the breadth of our representation throughout the company that gives us more strategic bargaining leverage.

Lori White

I have faith in the bargaining committee, so I'm hoping it was a fair deal,

Nancy Elliott

I do not want to lead another strike. I do not want to have a knock-down, drag-out fight with you every time we come to the bargaining table.

Joe Stout

The proposal was the result of good faith negotiations between the company and the union bargaining committees.

Charles Kennedy

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

Rob Manfred

Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction. With respect to the larger issue of steroids, Mr. Wells is obviously unaware that commissioner Selig has proposed a tougher steroid policy for the industry and that such a policy can be imposed only through collective bargaining.

Sathya Baba

No other weapon has the power of forbearance.  It should not be used only as an individual instrument.  It has to be experienced collectively also.  That is the reason why the scripture has commended collective forbearance at the very outset of the spiritual quest.  What is its inner meaning? 

Stipe Mesic

Now, through the process of individualizing the guilt, we have removed that scar. Croats and Serbs are being made accountable. It will put a stop to collective guilt.

Giuseppe Pisanu

When I hear people talk about collective expulsions, deportations, laagers, as an Italian I am deeply offended,

Craig Venter

If anything, we've learned that we don't think this data's going to be as deterministic as was previously thought, ... There is even more need for this legislation until science catches up with our collective ignorance.

Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.

Barry Gebhart

I didn't order awards, because I didn't want tonight to be about awards. I wanted it to be about a collective group of guys that may be together for the last time.

Robert Downey

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Joe McGrath

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Schelley Olhava

The prices for PS3 they are presenting are not necessarily accurate, and there is no firm confirmation from Sony that the launch will be later than this spring.

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Akira Suzuki

Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction.

Brad Kullman

We haven't had anything to proceed on yet.

Li Yizhong

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Rick Jandreau

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

David Sykes

He has spoken about several opportunities and I am not sure what he will proceed with.

John Kyl

We recognize to proceed would ... result in a vote that would not be successful.

Steve Serbati

We're not tearing down the old bridge, so traffic will proceed as usual.

Peter Stuyvesant

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Hillary Clinton

We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them.