Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've taken the step of exposing the governments blocking the agreement so people around the world can call on them to change their minds.

Matt Higgins

We've said all along, until we reach an agreement for a permanent home for the Jets, we will continue to explore all of our options. That hasn't changed.

Al Gore

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

We have a revenue share agreement varying from artist to artist, so they will benefit from this deal,

Richard Boucher

We urge all parties to fully honor the agreements negotiated by NATO and the European Union,

We understand the sewer challenge. But the only way it (construction of a sanitary sewer system) will happen is if something triggers it. If it gets triggered, it will take a mutual agreement with IDEM, the town of Eaton, county council and hopefully Mr. Russell to sit down and come up with a solution.

Jack Straw

We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks, ... This might also be an opportunity to discuss what Iran's new government and its breaking of the Paris Agreement means for EU-Iran relations over the coming months.

Tony Blair

We shouldn't get any agreement other than a good one. There's no point in going through the night and get any old agreement and ... so it is, in my view, entirely sensible to take the time to get it right.

Ari Fleischer

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

Stephen F. Lynch

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

Hassan Nasrallah

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Gerhard Schroder

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

Clay Shirky

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Daniel Kahneman

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Don King

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

Dan Kildee

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Dan Kildee

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

Dan Kildee

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

Anna Lindh

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

Alija Izetbegovic

As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

The deal today is better and more fair for both sides than it was in February. This agreement is very, very different than what's ever been a part of this sport. It's revenue-driven. Everyone here is talking about how do we grow the product? History will be able to look back and say there was an inflection point and a launching pad for all aspects for the game.

The deal is virtually done and it's not going to be just revolutionary for the NHL, it will be a new chapter in collective bargaining agreements for all sports because it will most closely tie together the fortunes of the owners and the players.

The deal has all but been done. We have a verbal agreement from James and it's just a case of getting the paperwork processed next week.

The critical thing, I think, is that this is a reflection of an agreement with the City and County of Honolulu, the Senate president and the House speaker. We'd like that agreement to be honored.

The contracts at issue settled disputes with individual wholesale customers. Qwest does not believe that these agreements were required to be filed, but because this is a question that has not been previously clarified, we've asked the FCC to confirm our interpretation.

The fact that we reached an agreement and received payment from the Republic of Serbia reflects positively on both parties. Resolution of the matter is a tribute to the Serbian government, which has demonstrated to the international community that it can - and will - keep its word.

The facts will become clear when the band files its answer--and cross-claim. He was an absentee manager. He breached his agreement and his fiduciary duties.

We'll stop operating our buses and working on them, if we don't have an agreement by noon. Hopefully, we'll have an agreement, but if that doesn't happen, we'll just stop the service.

We'll still move toward that goal, regardless of whether we have an agreement with the (Montana Environmental Information Center).

What it requires is an agreement between ourselves and the province on the fiscal terms that are appropriate. When might that happen? It's not a month away, it's not six months away, it might not even be a year away.