Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

Clearly we know what the goal is here. The goal is to contain Milosevic. The goal is to stop the extraordinary violation of human rights. The goal is to undermine his military capability, ... We can achieve those goals.

Clearly, we didn't achieve to the level of our expectations coming to the Games, which were very high coming out of Salt Lake and were high because of the quality efforts of the athletes throughout this four-year period.

Cory Booker

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.

Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation,

Clinton's come here to add quality to the side and that's very important because it's a long season and we're going to need everybody working at their best so hopefully we'll all achieve the same goal and that's promotion at the end of the year.

Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.

Closing the achievement gap is one of the most persistent challenges in American education today. Given the complex nature and extreme difficulty in closing these gaps, Standard & Poor's believes it is important to pay tribute to those school districts that have made progress in this area.

Steve Spurrier

Being a bowl team is a wonderful achievement for so many teams, and if you look at the history of the University of South Carolina, a bowl game is pretty good.

Beijing is just testing its wings as a global player. This agreement is a major sign of China having achieved that stature.

Being Big Ten freshman of the year was a nice accomplishment. She adds a lot to the team other than good golf scores.

Being a coach, I think it's part of our job to get our kids on the market to have a chance to go to college, whether it's scholarship-wise or not. I think we have to work very hard to do that. It's gratifying to see three kids that have worked hard the two years I've been here to achieve that.

Being named by process control professionals in such overwhelming numbers in an unaided survey is a gratifying affirmation of our open, standards-based technologies, and our commitment to customer service. Our goal is to give our users an edge through combined technology and services, and the annual Reader's Choice results are an important scorecard of progress. This encourages us to make even more investments to help our users achieve better business results.

Being selected by Red Herring as a Private Company to Watch is a unique distinction that few companies are able to achieve and a special honor. We continue to gain industry recognition for our business and for developing technology that today protects sensitive data for some of the world's largest organizations and most demanding e-commerce applications.

Being part of a foundation that recognizes students and helps them go to college to achieve a higher education is a wonderful thing. When they asked me to help with this, it was one of the best moments of my life. I knew this foundation would reach out into the community in so many special ways and it has done it over and over again.

Lisa Kudrow

Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.

William Matthews

His biggest accomplishment was being a fabulous son to me. He gave the world's best hugs. Our focus is just that he was wonderful, that people loved him and that he will be sorely, sorely missed.

his legitimate efforts to achieve balance and objectivity in public broadcasting.

His goal is to make it to the state meet. He's logged some major miles, 40 and 50 a week, which are the kinds of miles it takes to achieve that.

Phyllis Schlafly

Children who are not taught phonics grow up to be adults who can never be hired for anything other than a minimum-wage job. They will never be assimilated into our economy and achieve the American dream.

By what I saw today, I don't think this can be achieved tomorrow.

can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.

Colin Montgomerie

Can he achieve the impossible? He's on his way.

But it hasn't. The debt market expects Greenspan will achieve a soft landing, which means corporate earnings aren't going to crash and the outlook for corporate borrowers remains positive. That's driven yields lower, which in turn has kept borrowing costs lower for companies.

Hu Jintao

I am satisfied with the achievement of the robust China-Canada co-operation, ... This move meets the needs and the times of our peoples.

Paula Radcliffe

I am really pleased that the IAAF has decided to recognize performances achieved on the roads as world records,

Andriy Shevchenko

I am really happy with this achievement and I must thank my team-mates who have made it possible.

Richard Branson

I am slightly biased, but I think it is an incredible achievement -- the last great aviation record left.

I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn.

Kofi Annan

I am quite confident that a cease-fire can be achieved and a summit can go ahead,

Ian is recognized as a leader in bringing together IT, finance and operations professionals to address critical Performance Management challenges including governance, process improvement and information technology. His proven sales leadership skills will help us achieve our revenue goals as we invest in the expansion of our research and services teams.

Carl was a vital part of any successes we achieved this season. He utilizes his resources better than anyone I've ever seen.

Carlos did really well in the Vuelta and he fully deserves his spot on the podium. He's an all round rider and it's great to see him prove it with a nice result such as this. It takes a lot to achieve a podium spot in the Vuelta, and I think he's been one of the prominent riders in this race - just as we as a team have been up front in nearly all stages. We took a brilliant stage victory, and with a little luck we could've taken a couple more. On the whole I'm very satisfied with the efforts delivered by everyone. Our aim was to get a good result overall and try for a stage win along the way, and we've achieved both. The team has worked perfectly and everyone down here in and around the team deserve big credit.

Certainly (arbitration) is the other avenue of pursuit open to us (but) I believe that through the current process we will achieve a satisfactory outcome,