Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

The United States government is not going to make any arrangement with any other country that would in any way undermine our security agreement with Japan,

The United States believes that it is imperative to move rapidly on an agreement to implement the goals outlined in the joint statement.

The United States and Turkey are in total agreement.

Ellen Tauscher

The United States and the other original nuclear weapons states have all agreed to a voluntary moratorium on fissile material production.

is the Justice Department not willing to agree to an immediate and speedy trial?

I still believe we have an agreement, ... We had a joint meeting and we reached an agreement before we left the room. We sent an MOU that reflects all that. Our plan is to take it to our board for approval.

Adnan Pachachi

I spoke to the heads of all the political blocs and I sensed a true intent from all to push the political process forward. From now until the 17th of this month, we believe there will be an agreement on some of the problems.

I spoke to Freddie about it, and he agreed immediately to put his name on it. He thought it was a brilliant idea, and he will play a part in being the young sportsperson's mentor.

Ismail Haniyeh

I spoke on the phone with President Abbas last night. We have agreed to meet tomorrow evening in Gaza to present him the final government list.

I shouldn't go into them because they should remain confidential, but they remain barriers to an agreement. I don't believe they're insuperable.

I should also tell you that India has agreed that in the future, all of its civilian power reactors, thermal reactors and breeder reactors, will be placed under international safeguards.

I've been the one who's been at the table. We don't have a tentative agreement.

I've been pretty frustrated with the reaction of (city) staff and the planning commission. Before I agree to build something, I think I ought to know what I'm going to build.

George Cole

We were pleased with the opportunity to co-promote XIFAXAN, ... We are confident that XIFAXAN should serve as a major contributor to Salix's ongoing success. ALTANA has made the strategic decision to realign its efforts in the respiratory therapeutic area. Therefore, in order to focus our efforts, ALTANA and Salix have agreed to end their co-promotion activities.

What the governor has done is make it OK to talk about investing for our future. Whether you agree with the details, there's now a bipartisan discussion about our future needs - that's huge.

We look forward to working with the three levels of government as we prepare for construction of the stadium in early 2006 and while we finalize our franchise agreement with Major League Soccer,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We had the agreement, everything was there, then he said he had to go and ask the bosses and they said no, ... We sat down and sat down and in the end he said he had to go to the union bosses to get permission. Can you imagine? Permission!

We will not have what we wanted to have here which is an agreement

We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet, ... Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.

We will not agree to the UN taking over the management of the internet,

We will not agree to the United Nations taking over management of the internet.

John Lynch

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

The public owns these records. It's our right to have them. They don't get to withhold them just because they don't agree with us.

The public in this community, this state and this nation doesn't agree with the prosecutor that Cody is a threat to them.

We signed an agreement with China's national social security fund yesterday.

We signed an agreement to set up two joint ventures on a parity basis. One of them will be involved in oil refining and retail sales of oil products in China, and the other will produce oil in Russia.

Patrick Young

We signed an agreement on July 18 that implied that the charges would be forgiven. This puts everything in a whole new perspective.

We understand and agree that performance audits are a good thing, but this goes beyond what is needed or prudent right at this moment. The initiative doesn't provide enough money and creates more state bureaucracy. If the auditor quadrupled staff to do all these audits, it could cost $90 million a biennium.

We do not know how many will apply and receive credits, but under the agreement, the total amount of credits, plus attorneys fees, will not exceed $90 million.

We felt comfortable. We didn't have to agree on everything. But we would work together. This is a non-adversarial partnership. They came in not criticizing the Rocky , but working with the Rocky .

We felt we were very close to an agreement. We were surprised to receive the termination letter.

We felt we had to be resolute after all this time where we had cooperated and agreed not to impose sanctions or even discuss them,

Paul Douglas

We felt very strongly that if we agreed to a regular NLRB election that it was for sure the company was going to stall and it would give them the opportunity to really work the people inside the plant,