Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caspar Weinberger

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Carl Icahn

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

Lawton Chiles

With today's agreement, we have pounded another nail in the tobacco industry's coffin,

With today's agreement, we can now move forward with rebuilding the World Trade Center.

With this agreement, we will continue expanding the quality of our entertainment offerings and meet the constantly rising expectations of consumers when it comes to movies and video games.

Eliot Spitzer

With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed,

Would I be out of line if I said amen to that? I agree with them wholeheartedly.

We're still trying to come to an agreement on what was wind damage versus flood damage.

We're still hopeful he'll agree to testify, ... If he declines, we have a very important hearing next week and we'll go ahead without him. Ford has been very cooperative in providing information. They've offered two very high-ranking officials (to testify). We'll see what they have to say. One way or another we'll get to the bottom of this.

Oliver Luck

We're still going to pay the money we agreed to pay.

We're still a long way from agreeing on a government.

We're not helped by the regulations that we the counties have all agreed that we cannot replace someone once registered if they have an injury.

We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals.

We're going to first and foremost start working with customers to commercialize the technology, that's the first priority, and to the extent that we can find companies in complementary markets, who don't compete with us head to head, we may look at licensing agreements with them.

When we announced we had signed the agreement with the Orange Bowl to extend the contract for eight to 12 years, we said Dolphins Stadium was going to be the premier site for major sporting events in the U.S.. We're doing everything we can to basically make it a brand-new stadium.

When we announced the merger agreement on Aug. 8, this was not the case.

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

When we heard about all this, we were like really disgusted. We wanted to show the school board that we didn't agree with their decision. And we just wanted to let the teachers who were let go know that we cared about them.

Keith Richard

When we got the news about Charlie, we sat there, looking at each other and thinking, 'OK, what now? We realized we may not totally agree on everything, but there are too many plusses to our relationship.

When we first pitched our idea to consultants, they thought it was out there, that there was no way people going to lunch in groups would all agree to have a salad. But we have offerings for die-hard vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.

Ian Wilmut

We would welcome any rules for an international agreement of any kind to prohibit this work. I think you shouldn't underestimate the difficulties of this research,

What has happened over the past seven years of peace process is that ... the unionist community has walked further and further away and presented the agreement as a betrayal of their rights and freedoms.

Stuart Pearce

What has happened is disappointing but I still feel as though something will be sorted out in terms of agreeing a contract with Joey.

.We got to the point of identifying the value of the debt in 2003/2004, entered into four-way discussions - Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Justice, the university and the law school - to agree on the debt. The Ministry of Finance then proposed a payment plan to clear the debt and that's the plan we are working with.

We brought him back for the summer racing and we have stepped him up quickly in distance, we've kept him fresh and it has agreed with him.

We brought everybody to the table and found the one thing we all agreed on is land conservation in the Hill Country. So that's what we're doing together.

Mitch Kupchak

We both agreed to work with each other and give each other some time to make these decisions.

Hu Jintao

We both agreed to upgrade the relationship into a strategic partnership, ... Never has our relationship been more important than today.

We both agreed to do it as testament to the men and women of the area.

We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.

Jim Larranaga

We both agreed that this was something that doesn't represent George Mason University or our basketball program. That we needed to take immediate steps to send that message not only to Tony, but to the rest of our team and to the rest of the athletes who represent George Mason.

We see this morning's agreement as a win-win situation,

We see this exclusive agreement with Hooters Magazine as the beginning of a long and rewarding partnership, ... Sportsbook.com is the largest online gaming site on the planet and Hooters Restaurants are the best places to watch sports in North America. We both work with some of the same talent, like model and entertainer Brooke Burke.