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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Newt Gingrich

We're talking with the administration, ... It seems to me possible that there could be an administration agreement to get to a balanced budget deal in the next couple of weeks.

We need to shine more sunlight on the corruption in how radio stations choose songs. An agreement behind closed doors between the FCC and the big radio companies is exactly the opposite of that.

Anthony Albanese

The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

The government flat-out failed to comply with their agreement.

Bernie Sanders

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

Bob McNair

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

Yes, they've reached an agreement, but it remains to be seen whether the grand coalition can work and whether it actually delivers the reforms.

While we are pleased that we were able to reach a tentative pilot contract, the financial implications of the agreement, coupled with the higher price of jet fuel, will further impact our results. Therefore, we expect to post a loss in the third quarter and probably in the fourth quarter as well.

While there is no reason for optimism at this point, we will be there, ready to negotiate a reasonable agreement that provides the good jobs that American families need,

David Trimble

You cannot say that there is a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth ready for action.

Ariel Sharon

Snap elections would prevent a political freeze, ... We must ensure that 2006 will not turn into a lost year with regard to the political process and to the effort to reach an agreement with the Palestinians.

At the outset, Netanyahu planted land mines in the agreement, that they would explode down the road and will destroy the agreement, because generally he doesn't want it.

Matt Bonner

That's crazy to cancel a whole season. It's a real shame because nobody wins - the owners, the players, the fans. It's a lose-lose-lose situation and obviously, with our collective bargaining agreement expiring July 1 for the NBA, we need to work hard to make sure that doesn't happen to us.

Every time you break an agreement you lose self-esteem, self-respect and self-confidence, and you lose other people's trust in you. Every time you keep an agreement you increase these same valuable assets accordingly. It is just the way things are.

Around the country, nobody knows what the juniors are going to do with this collective bargaining agreement. There could be a wave of kids leaving. We'll just have to wait and see.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Jim Doyle

The lakes represent a fresh water ecosystem that's unique on our planet, supporting thousands of species, including human beings. These agreements will protect our Great Lakes from the threats of diversions outside this basin.

The joint venture and the licensing agreements bring together the strength of two industry leaders to deliver new technologies to the market more quickly. We are excited about making the results of our research investments in both genetics and traits available to more farmers, sooner.

George Fisher

The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.