Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

There has to be total agreement between the prime minister and me.

Faced with this management onslaught our only choice is self defense. We must defend the concept of the pilot working agreement itself. All legal means will be considered.

Both sides will still have to take the agreement back to their respective councils. I am reasonably certain we have put it to bed, but I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch.

The governor's been fairly consistent since day one. He welcomes the Legislature's involvement and input and understands there are other ideas that need to be considered in the art of reaching agreement and is optimistic that can be accomplished.

The governor did what she does best, bring all parties together in good faith to the negotiating table, and hammer out an agreement that's good for the people of Washington.

Ariel Sharon

The government which I head will not conduct negotiations on a peace agreement under fire, or under terror,

Giuliano Amato

The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,

There are a number of differing views and there is no agreement at all at the moment to report.

Mahmoud Abbas

There are lands in eastern and northern Gaza still under occupation, ... There are differences and agreements over borders.

When you look at his enormous existing fan base, all we need is for Howard to bring in a small fraction of his weekly audience for this agreement to pay for itself.

Gerry Adams

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

While I am hopeful that an agreement can be obtained, a decision by the neutral panel on the question of contract rejection is still a real possibility. Our position on a rejected contract has not changed. We will not work willingly without a contract.

Janet Reno

With the agreement of the Department of Justice, the White House has retained separate counsel to represent any governmental interests on behalf of the White House, including any questions of privilege,

Abdullah Abdullah

We will come out of there with an agreement, we shouldn't let this chance to fail once again, and from the other side what we expect from the international community is to also understand the problems that you are dealing with and the problems which we are faced with,

Celso Amorim

We welcome the fact that it was made, we think that it's a positive step, but there's also an agreement that it's an insufficient step,

We welcome the determination by the Maytag board of directors that ours is a superior proposal and look forward to the signing of a definitive agreement with Maytag,

We welcome Sports Capital Partners' interest and we look forward to working out the details of an agreement that we hope will benefit all involved, including the team and the city of St. Louis.

We welcome in particular the fact that the court confirmed that discriminatory pricing agreements for domestic sales and exports to the detriment of consumers in other member states are an illegal, restrictive business practice.

Dick Smith

We came into agreement that although not all of our reasoning was accepted, they did agree on part of it and said something needed to be done to fix it.

When language (in the agreement) requires local labor, we want to make sure our guys have the opportunity.

While not that material to the company, it is a step in the right direction. The bigger opportunity to Microsoft might be to encourage corporate customers in China to sign up for enterprise agreements to help better manage the implementation of new software such as Vista and Office 2007, although we see no reason to be encouraged at this stage.

Who will decide the quantity of our deterrence? The agreement limits the size of India's deterrence.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

We weren't able to establish an exact date and time when we will reach or sign the agreement, but certainly what was reiterated at the last monitoring committee meeting is that we are aiming to have an agreement on salaries and allowances by the 31st of March.

We've worked with the sheriff's department for 60 years. It's always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it's in writing.

We've worked very hard on our relationship with the players association. The economics of the sport are strong and the current agreement has worked very well. Those three things are good reason to be optimistic we can get a new agreement without a dispute.

We don't negotiate agreements through the media. But I will say our relationship with the Town of Johnston has been fantastic and our negotiations fruitful.

We are working past the deadline and through the night to reach new agreements with the USWA. We are encouraged by the substantial progress in negotiations but there are some remaining issues and the parties are continuing to work diligently to resolve these as soon as possible.

We are working on the details of the agreement, which may or may not be finalized in the next 24 hours.

We are working hard with the aim of reaching an agreement, and we are not thinking about failing, ... We are at the final stage of the negotiations and we are gradually getting close to turning the corner.

We can't restructure in bankruptcy without a pilot agreement. Lenders would never support a company without a resolved pilot contract.

We consider it (the proposal) quite workable. It can lead us to a comprehensive package of agreements that will provide a reliable solution to the Iranian nuclear problem.

Robert Zoellick

We consider Australia an extremely strong ally. Clearly there's a security basis ... But we also want to strengthen the economic relationship. That's what this free-trade agreement is about.