Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

I think we'll have some major points of agreement.

Jalal Talabani

I think, we will be able at the end of this month to replace many units from the allied forces, but we must have a common agreement between your government and our government for the timetable of the removal forces.

I think we're still far from agreement on several others.

Dennis Ross

I think we've seen over the course of the last year is that Chairman Arafat may well be committed to wanting to live in peace with Israel, but his own capacity at this stage to reach a permanent agreement is at least something that has to be questioned.

I think what we did was basically say there's not anything new here. If there's nothing new, the only thing that's going to come out of it is we're going to deny it or you guys can come down and try to reach an agreement between the parties.

I think that any discussion between AOL and Hughes is about implementation of their marketing agreement.

I think a very important thing happened. There was agreement that we shouldn't be negotiating only on agriculture.

David Trimble

There are parts of this agreement that we are not happy with. But we have judged that we have enough here to build on.

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

Eliot Spitzer

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

We sent in proposals since 2004 to the CPO to sit and negotiate for the new collective agreement, and it is going into 2006 now and no agreement has been met.

We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.

We still have to put together a revised site plan and have agreement with the residents. Really, what we want to demonstrate is that we want to work it out with the neighbors.

We still have negotiations to do. Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

This never went to a court and it was just an agreement between both parties. They claimed to have a vested interest in the club, the operation of the club. They had used it as their home for many, many years.

Bertie Ahern

was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.

We actually had purchase power agreements signed by a wind developer and a municipal solid waste developer, but the developers had trouble finding a site and it was right about the time we were switching over to a co-op and the funding fell through.

To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong

We are looking for a comprehensive agreement. We don't want to renegotiate the issues that will be agreed.

We are looking for a comprehensive agreement, ... We don't want to renegotiate the issues that will be agreed.

We are looking at areas where we may be able to work with Qantas in the future. However, no agreements have been reached on any co-operation on the Tasman.

We are just seeking more time to come to an agreement regarding the reduction in Delta's costs in Cincinnati.

David Siegel

We recognize the impact the sacrifices they are making will have on them and their families, ... In exchange for their participation, we have committed that this will be a labor-friendly Chapter 11 reorganization, in which we will honor new agreements that have been ratified, and provide labor a voice in the company's governance.

We're engaged not in a single event, but in a complex and critical process. But we think there is enough common ground to reach an agreement on some of these issues.

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.