Famous Quotes & Sayings

We'd like to see if we can get to an agreement, and we're not there yet. No one is quite ready to say we can't get there.

Tom Shields

We would hope that the final for m of any legislation would take into consideration the compacts we have already negotiated, settlement agreement we have reached, and all the work that has gone into this project by tribes, the city and the state.

Mohammed Dahlan

We want to continue implementing the agreement over borders and movement between Gaza and the West Bank, and we hope these measures will be completed by the date on which we agreed, December 15.

We were able to reach an agreement that upholds the legal scope and the spirit of the sanctions.

We were able to reach a fair and equitable agreement that met the needs of our pilots and supported the financial goals for our company. We look forward to obtaining ratification of the agreement and working with the entire World Airways team to continue the growth and success of the airline.

We were able to make progress, particularly with product coverage and quota levels, but we did not reach an agreement with the Chinese.

We do feel it's a good agreement. It allows us to make significant improvements to Long Island Sound and to Jamaica Bay, and it allocated time for us to study what the best options are to do it.

We worked with (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and agreed to do the recall to get this behind us.

We believe an agreement can be reached. A strike by the pilots would be fatal to Delta.

We are naturally disappointed at the prospect of losing Justin and we have reluctantly agreed to make him available but only on terms which suit the club. We will now await further developments.

Xerox has an agreement in principle with the SEC that effectively resolves Xerox's outstanding issues with the SEC.

Mike Enzi

Wyoming ranchers are suffering because the Japanese government is not holding up its end of the bargain. A year ago this month, Japan agreed to let our beef back in, but instead of opening the border they are dragging their feet.

Linda McMahon

WWF has been a rival organization to the WCW for quite some time, ... With the new infusion of stars and the cross-branded story lines, this does nothing but raise the specter potential for us. We're very pleased to have come to agreement to purchase that brand.

Siri Hustvedt

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Rudy Giuliani

My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can disagree on that, because I think the issues that we face about terrorism, about our economy, about the growth of our economy are so important that we have to have the biggest outreach possible.

Rand Paul

We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

The defense attorneys filed a request with the court to waive the appearance and the court agreed to do so. The investigation continues.

The decision was made after I had a very professional meeting with Louis on Tuesday, when we brought him in to review the season. Following the meeting, we decided not to offer him an extension, that the program had issues we needed to deal with as we move forward in the new Big East Conference. After the meeting, I got a sense of where we stood and there were things we couldn't agree on.

The decision is a mutual agreement between myself, my family, the doctors and the University of Washington.

Gerry Adams

The demand that has been made on me is that the IRA has to decommission its weapons before the agreement carries on, and that is a demand I cannot deliver on,

Jean Giraudoux

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Jim Bunning

We plan to find out if these major league sports are going to do anything. If they give us the excuse that they're tied in to collective bargaining agreements and they can't do anything, ... then it's up to Congress to change it and make it the law of the land.

We presumed after such a long time in New England and two franchise designations that they'd reach a long-term agreement and he'd go finish his career there. I don't think very many people around the league had heard anything to suggest the contrary.

(We presented the) $600 million plan for the benefit of our rate payers. We thought we had an agreement. The credit agencies, the rating agencies, those are key to us. The more damaging effects to us, the more costly it is to borrow money.

We preferred to see them both winners on the podium ... because they formed an agreement during the last kilometers. But (race officials) told us it was not possible.

Sela Ward

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

Sevyn Streeter

I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.

Vladimir Putin

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Tagg Romney

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

Vicente Fox

Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

Tom Daschle

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Akhmad Kadyrov

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.