Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cox

I don't think it is a good thing to sign an agreement that is vague when we still have issues to deal with.

I don't think it spells doom on an agreement.

I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus. We're a regulatory agency, deciding on matters which are brought before us.

For us that has to mean the Government has to return to the Good Friday Agreement as the baseline document in any negotiations we have.

Lawrence Summers

For these three reasons -- national security, how China evolves, our commercial interests -- I believe that this agreement is very much in our national interest.

Max Baucus

For the United States, Malaysia represents a major commercial player - in the same league as France, Italy, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. In the past, we have spent too much time, effort, and resources negotiating agreements with small countries of little commercial significance.

Given the nature of the agreement and ongoing litigation, it will ultimately be up to our respective industries to decide if they want to embrace a solid market-based agreement.

If it is part of a collective bargaining agreement, the Legislature would likely look favorably on it.

If we were somehow able to sign one franchise agreement every week of the year, it's going to take us 30 years to complete this process.

Hopefully, we can move on to other things. I still think it was something much better handled by agreement than it would have been by legislation.

Hopefully, we can come to a happy agreement. We have a team meeting Monday. I have a contract. I'm going to go out there and play. Whatever happens after that is not in my hands. They're trying to work something out, and I want to stay here.

Michael Richards

Hopefully, we can come to agreement before we go to the Legislature.

Hopefully, they'll (the Nelsons) come to an agreement with the city in lieu of us going through the courts.

There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we'll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are able to win, if we win a peace agreement, if we succeed.

The Pac-10 is very pleased to reach an agreement to send a conference team to the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl. The game has come a long way in a short period of time and garnered a tremendous amount of community support.

The owners want a new collective bargaining agreement? ... Well, we need to take a hard look at situations like this.

There is an emerging opportunity for commerce on the web and this agreement allows Yahoo! flexibility in aggressively pursuing this opportunity while retaining 100 percent of the financial benefit of Yahoo! shareholders.

We make our own independent agreement with our workers.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

We must find an agreement to make up with the Albanians, though not with all Albanians,

We look forward to starting fresh with this new agreement, ... I am very positive it will work out well for both sides.

We look forward to knowing the results of that investigation. The United States has every intention of living up to the letter of our recent agreement in regard to beef imports into Japan and we will work closely with the appropriate authorities here in Japan and in the United States to ensure there is no repetition of this mistake.

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

We maintain our long-standing position that while the textile industry wants a comprehensive agreement, any agreement must be in the industry's best interest. No deal is better than a bad deal.

We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

We made progress during talks this week. While the company and the union still have differences to address, UPS remains committed to continue negotiations until an agreement can be reached.

Keith Stanfield

That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.

I would be probably naive to say that there was agreement on all these matters. There are, of course, profound differences in the approach of the two sides.

I would describe the agreement as progress. Clearly more remains to be done.

I would anticipate that in the event we don't reach an agreement within the next year, there's a strong possibility that we might be locked out again.

Andrew Card

If we don't find that happening, all of the progress expected under the trade agreement could disappear. So an excessively weak yen would jeopardize success under the auto agreement.

If we fail to reach an agreement here, everything will spill out to the streets.

Raul Lopez

If we hadn't signed this agreement, we could have been forced to sell some of our land but with (the financial help) we can open small business and strengthen the economy of our communities.