Famous Quotes & Sayings

They have no reason to reach an agreement. They're only there to stop other people from achieving one, or to express their ideological views. Some groups have had legislators in them; they don't have an interest in the outcome, but they feel strongly about how things need to happen.

Asset price fluctuations have important implications for promoting more efficient resource allocations and achieving sustained growth in the long run.

As world leaders gather in New York, we are still decades away from meeting the modest Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty. A critical tool for achieving these goals is debt cancellation. A recent study by U.K. charities found that at least 62 low-income nations would require full debt cancellation -- in addition to more aid and trade justice -- as a first step towards achieving the goals.

As women, we're generally faced with the challenges of living, including having a family, a career and pressing issues that sometimes keeps us from moving forward and achieving our dreams.

The most effective means of achieving this goal is continued reliance on market mechanisms, not price regulation.

Although, it's under tragic circumstances I'm here, I just hope this will be able to motivate Tykala to keep working hard in achieving her goals,

The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't require her to be there. It is her decision, and we have not discussed it yet. Obviously there is a great deal of money involved in this case, but the principle is more important than the money. Ms. Nicole Smith believes that her husband intended to support her for the rest of her life, and his son is trying to stop him from achieving that.

The Web is achieving critical mass from a consumer standpoint. And the advertisers are following the eyeballs.

The way the bill was gutted in committee today means achieving significant savings is far less likely. With the changes in this bill, it does a lot more to protect the interests of personal injury lawyers and a lot less to protect the interest of small businesses and injured workers.

This award re-affirms our execution strategy of achieving significant success in a highly competitive Indian telecom market and then taking our packet-aware optical transport products to international markets,

Yevgeny Primakov

I told them point blank: We are categorically against impeachment, ... Impeachment doesn't go into the channel of achieving ... stability.

Ginni Rometty

For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models, process, culture and management.

Sam Allardyce

You don't want to waste knocking the cup holders out, certainly not in the next round. We put so much effort into achieving that feat and want to go as far as we possibly can in the competition.

Kofi Annan

Your proposal to broaden the scale of debt swaps would help provide debt relief and release additional funds for financing sustainable activities that are key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,

YOUR devotion to God is best expressed by achieving the control of the senses. For the senses rush towards the temporary and the tawdry; and they foul the heart.

Rodrigo Rato

This is an historic moment which will allow these countries to increase spending in priority areas to reduce poverty, promote growth, and to make progress towards achieving the (UN) Millennium Development Goals.

This is an exciting time for Nevada football and Wolf Pack athletics. I am committed to achieving at the highest levels and embracing all of the responsibilities associated with being the head football coach and a member of this athletics staff.

Erie customers report faster repair times and a higher probability of their vehicle being repaired correctly the first time. They also cite continuous contact from the provider throughout the claims process, which is critical in achieving overall satisfaction.

The resources being released today bring us closer to achieving the great promise that health information technology has to improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of health care. The Connecting for Health Common Framework provides a foundation that everyone can build on. Soon we will see doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, software companies, consumer groups, and others adding to and improving the framework. It is a very significant contribution to the development of private and secure exchange of health information nationwide to improve care for each patient.

Craig Fugate

As it is currently designed, the program is not achieving the outcome it should. We've asked FEMA several times if this program can be scaled back, and be run more upon need.

Conserving sacred sites and their biological richness can play a major role in achieving the 2010 target and perhaps act as beacons from where good and sustainable management practices can be exported to nearby areas and beyond.

Disney has supported the deployment of HDMI since the first version of the specification was issued in 2002. The widespread adoption of HDMI in conjunction with HDCP has played an important role in enabling the transition to digital TV. We congratulate the HDMI community on achieving the important milestone of 300 adopters worldwide.

Cost-reduction targets sound good on paper but achieving many of them will require UAW cooperation.

Today's settlement is positive proof of the continued progress we are achieving in the grain industry, through the co-operative enforcement efforts of federal, state and local agencies.

Howard Schultz

We are as passionate about our commitment to our communities as we are about achieving financial success.

We are very pleased to report that we are well on our way to achieving the investment objectives we set forth in our May 2005 initial public offering.

We are very pleased to report that we are achieving the investment objectives we pioneered upon our IPO in February 2004. Last year our total return, based on market value, was 13.06 percent.

Fred Hassan

We have delivered on our promise of achieving a turnaround in 1998 and double-digit earnings growth for the full year,

broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit growth.

James Harrison

We think it's generation of cash at the expense of employees. We don't think employees are standing in the way of this company achieving the goals it needs to reach.

Yahya Jammeh

together we will work towards achieving this noble mission with a strong, reformed and revitalized United Nations at the centre.

UPS is such a large (shipping) player that it made sense to us, if we're trying to bring the shipping industry in line with state and federal laws, if you have UPS on your side, you are closer to achieving that goal.

The Origami project is really our first step toward achieving a big vision.