Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Comey

Was he dragged into criminal activity to which he was not predisposed, by a government overbearing his will?

Warm weather and a post-December rebound in new activity will likely boost construction payrolls. Retail employment should also enjoy a post-holiday boost.

We are anticipating between $5 to 7 million for the cost and originally estimated it costing about $4.8 million. We also think that with all the constructing activity with (Hurricane) Katrina that we are anticipating higher prices, just not sure how high they might be. We might have to shift money from other projects if the reconstruction costs more than our expected expense.

We are very much aware of the potential for gang activity here. So far we haven't seen any evidence of gang participation in the juvenile system.

We are very encouraged by the amount of new business bid activity currently in the pipeline, now that we are no longer fighting the headwinds of labor uncertainty, ... Consumer confidence will be key to the success of this year's fourth quarter.

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

We had some activity in March, and based on that we took it off the deferred list and were working on getting it programmed for repair. We were getting ready to do some remedial design work, and it was scheduled to be built in the spring.

We wanted a lot of activity and a lot of life on the outside of the building. We thought that this is a project that will expand the downtown down Market Street. This was the next big jump.

We listen closely to our customers and understand how important transparency is to them. That's why we're putting nutrition information right into their hands. Our ongoing efforts to provide menu choice and variety and be an advocate for physical activity are further demonstrated here today.

We're going to try to return the city as much as possible to normal activity tomorrow, ... I don't think we can call it normal activity, but kind of approach it as much as possible.

We saw that in the MPLS competitive-bid activity that we went through.

We're very excited to have Mark Gracy move his company to Jefferson County. It's a positive sign for our county that maybe we're making that turn, starting to see increased activity in the business and manufacturing sector, ... Mike had a lot to do with this. If he wouldn't have gotten the grant from the state to help with the buildout cost on the building, this wouldn't be happening now. He pulled this deal together.

Julie Gerberding

We're very early in the flu season this year. We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and one state with local activity, but it's way at the very early stages. So it's difficult to predict how severe the season will be, when it will take off, and when it will peak, and what ultimately the spectrum of impact will be,

We see a cold, hard, brittle outer layer, but a lot of activity underneath. Does it represent an ocean under there, or warm ice moving around?

U.S. Corporate Profits: Outlook And Credit Implications. Up until now, this has been subdued by strong corporate liquidity positions, but with manufacturing activity expected to rev up (as hinted by the fairly strong ISM manufacturing numbers and orders growth) and margins of slack in the economy set to diminish, strong growth in capital expenditures will be needed. In turn, this should raise external borrowing needs.

Martin Feldstein

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

This oil-induced crisis from Katrina is going to be good for housing. Mortgage rates are headed lower, and that's going to support the housing market. It will help with refinancing activity and construction.

This oil-induced crisis from Katrina is going to be good for housing, ... Mortgage rates are headed lower, and that's going to support the housing market. It will help with refinancing activity and construction.

This type of illegal activity is a real concern and keeps our investigative units busy. It is a problem on the regional and national level.

What parents should do, ... is change the types of food they keep in the house and give (children) more opportunities for physical activity so children can eat as much as they want and play how they want.

What is new is that this has become a formalized and organized activity such that the use of the information to force improvements is now a requirement that must be documented.

What I would conclude is that we are backing away from the robust levels of housing activity we saw in the spring and summer of last year, but there is by no means a swoon going on in housing activity just yet.

Jalal Talabani

We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven't enough government forces.

Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However, compared to historical activity levels, the amount of space completed this year has been somewhat modest, but we expect the pace to quicken during the second half of this year.

to include some physical activity (e.g. all cashiers do some cart gathering.)

Fred Thompson

You have a lot of troubling questions ... You have some significant policy matters being determined in the midst of some very questionable activity involving a foreign government -- involving the very government that he is planning on visiting. So I don't think it's bad to stop and reassess that at this point,

With inflation pressures continuing to build and the magnitude of the moderation in economic activity continuing to be questioned, we suspect the Reserve Bank's patience has run out.

With imports now more than one third higher than exports, it will take a sharp reversal in these growth rates for the trade shortfall to narrow on a sustained basis. Although the U.S. economy is slowing and international economic activity is accelerating, it is unlikely that the trade deficit will narrow anytime soon.

Paul Meyer

We wanted to be close to our campus since the majority of activity in the business office is generated here.

Cary Sherman

We've had the impression that there has been a decrease in the amount of illegal activity on many campuses but not all, ... That's a reflection of the fact that a legitimate alternative is not sufficient in and of itself.

We'll have very solid overall job gains that will punctuate the start of more normal activity in terms of employment,

To some extent, it also 'phones home' to Sony over the Internet and uploads some of this information about your activity to them, ... potentially even identifying information such as your name, e-mail address and location on the Internet.

We already have a latchkey program for the younger kids. For the older children, each school will figure out a program for the kids to do, whether it's additional tutoring or having some sort of activity for them.