Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavier Becerra

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

Ban Ki-moon

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

We want this to create a more open, transparent, consistent and predictable environment. Industries like autos and pharmaceuticals have had challenges here with previous agreements not being honored. This will make improvements in those areas.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

There is little time left for further agreements but the time is there.

This study demonstrates that the pre-20th century atmosphere was essentially devoid of the long-lived gases currently depleting stratospheric ozone. It underscores the human contribution to these gases in the atmosphere and the need for compliance with current international agreements to bring the atmosphere back to pre-ozone hole conditions.

Donald Evans

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Richard Boucher

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

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.

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.

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.

The president of Sevilla was proving to be very belligerent on this topic, ... and one of the agreements was that he wouldn't oppose this decision if we loaned Saviola.

There is no reason to suppose that the state of the claimants' marriage would be regarded to have any relevance to the majority of the sponsorship agreements relied on by the defendant since they spring from David Beckham's prowess as a footballer,

Mahmoud Abbas

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

We risk losing these royalty agreements with the almost 600 other business owners who honor their licensing agreement with the University if we do not seek to enforce our rights,

Why should the entire architecture of agreements in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, and its cornerstone, the 1972 ABM treaty, be put under threat?

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 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.

When negotiations come back up for affiliate agreements in January, it could very well be that UPN will lose that distribution,

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.

We need to work together (with the U.S. government) to make trade agreements with China right for both of us,

Microsoft did not object to Compaq's inclusion of the Netscape Navigator icon on the Presario desktop. Microsoft in no way limits Compaq in its license agreements from including Netscape's icon.

We have to look at our agreements with Metro -- any kind of universal pass would involve them. It's kind of encouraging to hear that the students are interested in public transportation -- whatever happens, it's nice to know they want to be involved.

We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come.

Jeb Bush

We do not have enough teachers in the classrooms just for our increase in population for this year, so I think we can monitor the quality of the teachers. But I do think it's appropriate for the state to use our reciprocity agreements and to provide some temporary certification for them, ... We're seeing a dramatic increase by the way in the number of students. It doubled yesterday. I think it went from 1,000 to 2,400 in one day. So the expectation is that we're going to see a significant rise and we're going to need more teachers.