Famous Quotes & Sayings

When they pressure management to defend itself, it creates greater accountability. It forces management to explain its reasoning. The other shareholders can make up their minds whether they agree or disagree. Let the shareholders decide.

Under Saddam, if you agreed to forego your basic right to freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK. But now, no. Here, you have a primitive, chaotic situation where anybody can do anything they want to anyone.

Under Irish law, the Company is required to obtain the approval of its shareholders to buy back its own shares. The Board, believing it to be in the best interests of the shareholders and the Company, agreed that the Company should request this approval to provide the Company with the flexibility to buy back shares if it determines that the benefits associated with such a program can be realized.

We met in our continuing meetings with Poe, it was a productive meeting and company officials have agreed to work out the claims that they still have and about which we have received calls.

We may not agree on the details of every single bill that comes out. But overall, the direction we see is very positive. It's time to put education first.

We make our own independent agreement with our workers.

Paul Gillmor

We must instead agree as a nation to reassess our long-term goals and fund only those priorities which remain crucial to our people.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

We must find an agreement to make up with the Albanians, though not with all Albanians,

We have to be intelligent with our pitchers and not get too aggressive. We wouldn't want to use somebody we want available for the weekend, too. Both coaching staffs would agree on that.

We look forward to starting fresh with this new agreement, ... I am very positive it will work out well for both sides.

We look forward to knowing the results of that investigation. The United States has every intention of living up to the letter of our recent agreement in regard to beef imports into Japan and we will work closely with the appropriate authorities here in Japan and in the United States to ensure there is no repetition of this mistake.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

We maintain our long-standing position that while the textile industry wants a comprehensive agreement, any agreement must be in the industry's best interest. No deal is better than a bad deal.

We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

We made some progress and agreed to arrive at a conclusion quickly. We could set a direction to our discussion and share a common ground.

We made progress during talks this week. While the company and the union still have differences to address, UPS remains committed to continue negotiations until an agreement can be reached.

Keith Stanfield

That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.

Ken Buck

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

HSBC has an agreement that when the regulation allows, half of the cards business can be bought on an agreed formula, and it can become a proper joint venture.

Ken Goldberg

Human taste is complex, and I'm not sure it can be accounted for. This is one of the biggest challenges we face because preference engines are based on the idea that if we agree on three movies, we will agree on the fourth. But it often doesn't work that way.

Tom Hall

I about did 50 cartwheels when he agreed to come. He's on a hot streak with documentaries in the last few years. We got lucky.

I also agree now that there is a sense of a bad message this would send to anyone considering a development in Grandview.

Dennis Hastert

I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.

Michael Huff

I agree (with Young). It was a lack of leadership. Things started to go downhill and nobody stepped up.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I agree with what the prime minister said. We want selective immigration,

Bill Belichick

I agree with Tom, sure. I'm not really losing too much sleep over it. It doesn't really matter what anybody else thinks about our team.

John W. Snow

I agree with the Treasury's interpretation that dividends to shareholders and share buybacks are not permissible uses of repatriated funds, ... I am also of the view that the statutory language makes it clear that the repatriated monies are to be used for domestic job growth, not for laying off employees or settling lawsuits.

Bob Hill

I agree with the suspension. I think the thing the league is looking at, which I appreciate, is this one spilled into the stands. Everybody knows if it spills into the stands it's going to get ugly.

Mike Gordon

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

I agree with the President that we're going to have to spend billions to rebuild New Orleans, but I do not agree that that money should come from savage cuts in health care, education or economic development, ... Instead, we should stand up to powerful special interests and eliminate hundreds of billions in corporate welfare.

I agree with the other City Council people that I was disappointed in what the mayor said because I thought it was understood what we were going to do, and he didn't say anything about it during the meeting. So he blasted us in the paper.

Janet Napolitano

I agree with them. What the heck is going on with gas?