Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Ross

We keep hearing from our Asian supply chain partners that AMD is having a great quarter.

We think the next UN Secretary-General should be picked from an Asian country.

Derek Mitchell

Why is he going to Mongolia? ... It is part of the mantra of Bush's second term of promoting democracy. Mongolia is the only Asian communist country to go democratic and they have troops in Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've decided that it's time to shift our posture in Europe and Asia and around the world and move from static defense, which does not make much sense today, to a more deployable and usable set of capabilities,

We also have some gardeners that grow their native Southeast Asia produce, which do very well in our climate. Some gardeners are very adventuresome and try a couple of new crops each year. Last year one gardener grew sesame seeds, which did extremely well.

We like consumer plays. Asia has high savings rates. That becomes strong consumption power when coupled with domestic recovery.

We are starting to see maybe a turning in the housing market in the US. And if the US consumer retracts a little, we would expect to slow down in the US in the second half of the year. That translates into a slowdown in Asia as well." ()

Alan Greenspan

We are seeing the first signs of erosion at the edges, especially in manufacturing. That's a signal that the effects of East Asia and Russia on our financial system are increasingly a factor.

Ben Shahn

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

Iris Chang

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

Ivan Krastev

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.

Isaiah Washington

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

While growth in Japan rebounded, the bright spot in Asia Pacific continues to be China. The combination of a healthy economy and increasing diagnosis and treatment rates make China extremely attractive to multinational pharmaceutical companies. Many of them are expanding their presence in China now because they recognize the significant long-term business opportunities that market presents.

Robert Zoellick

there are questions that are being asked not only in the U.S. but other parts of Asia and Europe about how China will use this growing power.

Samuel P. Huntington

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

We believe the avian situation we currently have in Southeast Asia is a perfect set-up for this virus to mutate into a human-to-human transmitted agent, which is a big problem and could lead this to be the next pandemic, ... We also have to keep an eye on other viruses.

We only traded down to $0.6855 over the weekend but went down to $0.6842 this morning, so elements of people were trying to force it down before Asia came in, ... It's been bid up ever since.

We pick those two for their exposure to the domestic market. We think the recovery in Asia is lifting demand and has re-established a floor under oil prices, and we don't expect prices to drop any time in the near term.

Shekhar Kapur

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.

Films that are made in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Bangkok tend to feed off each other and multiply the potential of Asian cinema.

Expectations of further increases in U.S. interest rates are partly encouraging investors to take money out from Asian stocks. Fund outflows have been weighing on regional currencies.

Exports to the United States should increase over the next few months. The outlook for exports to Asia is slightly less clear ... but overall, I see the trade balance increasing through the rest of the year.

Exports to Asia are growing on demand for electronic parts, while exports to the United States are growing on shipments of cars.

Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission in China. Since the setting up of Nokia Ventures Organization Asia in Shanghai in 2003, NVO Asia has not only contributed to Nokia's renewal but also benefited the local partners in the Chinese mobile ecosystem. Nokia's role as a founding partner of Finland - China Innovation Center further demonstrated our commitment in promoting technological and innovation cooperation between the two nations.

Michael Hastings

As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

The government is committed to deepening ties with North Asia -- building on mature links with Japan, expanding ties with China and continuing support for peaceful outcomes on the Korean Peninsula.

Ryan Coogler

I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know?

Michelle Landry

Today, the third-graders tasted Asian food, and they loved it. The performers for Thursday's shows practiced in their costumes, which made them glow, and we loved watching them.

Mark Takano

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

Richard Hastings

Unlike Europe, Asian markets are more receptive to big-box formats, ... The model of relationships between households, labor, production, the market and resources are more easy to replicate there.

Most of the Asian countries' recoveries have been more v-shaped than we first thought.

Most importantly, the medium-term fundamentals remain very good. Asian trade remains a great fit for our bulk exports and our Vancouver gateway for import-export containers.

Jason James

Merck is having some impact. But pharmaceutical stocks are expensive at the present moment, probably more so than at the time of the Asian crisis (in 1998).