Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Ackerman

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

What has protected our community far before 9/11 from extremism and violent ideology is that balanced mainstream advocacy of Islamic principles.

What has been amazing to me is how this group has helped one another along the way, making suggestions, adding dialogue, and showing teamwork. They've taken ownership of this production.

Mike Sherman

What happens when adversity strikes? And it will, and we'll have to work through those issues. It won't always be the good times in the preseason when everyone's patting you on the back.

We found that most consumers classified themselves as 'novices' or 'apprentices' when it comes to vehicle financing and admit to feeling uninformed when it comes to that process. Our mission at AWARE is to reach out to and be a resource for all Americans who are thinking about buying another vehicle.

We found that if there was more advertising in a market there was more youth drinking.

We found that for every additional serving per day of soft drink consumed, the risk of becoming obese increased by about 50 percent.

We found that babies who received an additional two months of full breastfeeding were over four times less likely to contract pneumonia and half as likely to suffer recurrent ear infections.

We found that a lot of people were using advanced scripting, multiple files and other advanced tools but don't think of themselves as professional developers. So we repositioned the product and added more stuff for customization--more tool tips and custom menus.

Carol Bruce

We found some things that we feel confident there will be additional savings. And, we feel that we have raised the level of awareness about the fact that we need to be aware of cost in the future.

We found out that one address was the source of 200 police calls in one year. That property was public enemy No. 1. When the city went inside, they found an illegal auto repair shop, mattresses in a storage section of the building that had condoms and needles all over them. We got the building emptied out, the city used Community Development Block Grant money to buy it and now it's on the road to demolition. The end of the tunnel is near.

We found ourselves a little bit over the last two weeks. We also took advantage of having a week to prepare for them. Instead of trying to do a lot of things not so well, we tried to a few things real well.

We had 13 guys left on base. That doesn't help any matters. Our bullpen late in games has been doing a good job, too. They just got one pitch and took advantage of it. But guys are working hard.

We had 12 kids advance to the section finals last year. Our hope this year is to have at least 11 or 12 make it to the finals.

Brian McDermott

We guarded pretty well except for the last five minutes of the first half. (Eastern) really went after us inside (the lane) and got us into foul trouble. They took advantage of it, but, fortunately, we shot well for the first time in a while.

William Hazlitt

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.

We graduated a lot of kids, but we have a lot coming back. And the one thing we have this year is a lot of speed and we plan to use that to our advantage this season.

Rick Carlisle

We can do better in some areas and we will. I admit we all have to do better. I put myself in that category as well.

We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have willing workers and idle industrial capacity.

We find little in these results to indicate that the group is addressing the dearth of late-stage pipeline products right now and suspect that the risk of opting for quick fixes does not come risk-free.

We felt like we had to keep Brown from getting the ball and contain Cowan. They have a size advantage on us.

Mark Wilson

We felt like we had a chance to win that game but we helped them out a lot in the fourth quarter and good teams take advantage of things like that. You can't make mistakes against them because they don't usually beat themselves.

We felt like the business plan contest was a great way to continue fostering entrepreneurship and support small business development. Part of what we have viewed as our mission for economic development is fostering entrepreneurship. That's one of the things we are going to be addressing as we sell these pieces of property.

Frank Robinson

We felt like every time he took the ball he was going to go nine innings, no matter what. I really admire him for that.

We felt it was important as we recover from some tough financial times and we begin to add back from the $11 million cuts that we went through 3 years ago to reward some of the teachers, the custodians, the staff, the bus drivers, secretaries and so forth.

We boosted economic growth in one quarter, but that doesn't mean it's sustainable. We still have a long-range view that the economy is changing, and consumers will have to adjust to it.

George Bell

We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, ... All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away.

Web hosting was the first product in Affinity's portfolio, and it's still a very important part of our business; that's why we continue to strive to create solutions based on the most advanced hosting technology at an affordable price. However, we recognize the need to offer much more than just hosting to satisfy the needs of today's developer, which is why Gate.com also provides a full suite of advanced tools and web services.

We believe Yahoo! will remain volatile until it can prove that its online ad model can evolve in this new, more difficult environment.

We believe we will be able to make the necessary changes in advance of Election Day. It's an issue that can be resolved in time.

We believe we have the necessary depth to adequately cover for both Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee,

Daniel Briere

We believe we have good enough speed to take advantage of teams with the new rules,

Brad Smith

We believe today's statement of objections is unjustified. The Commission has issued this statement regarding technical documentation we submitted last week, even though by its own admission it ... has not even read or reviewed these new documents.