Famous Quotes & Sayings

Those counties represent both rural and urban areas, ... The state is asking companies to compete for services through a bidding process. The important result is that with some time everyone will be able to study the 'old' way of doing Medicaid--which is still in existence in parts of Florida--with this new pilot program. We believe the research will be undeniable that the free-market system will lower costs, improve efficiency, and validate the dignity of the individual." ()

Soledad O'Brien

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Soledad O'Brien

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

We are in no way changing the policy. The only thing we are asking is to waive that policy for one year.

We are, in fact, abiding by the law, which basically says that once there's a certification, you have five days to ask for a recount.

Javier Solana

We are in contact with them and whatever they ask for they will be given, from reserves of oil that different countries have provided, to any other thing that they may need.

We are in a very competitive telecommunications market in Texas, so it was only natural that we would ask our auditing firm what it was doing for a major competitor of ours.

Enrique Bolanos

We are doing everything humanly possible to save lives. I just ask God to protect our people,

We know our customers have asked for this type of a project.

We'll give her immunity and ask her some fact questions, that's all we want. We know what she said and we want to put her on the stand to see what she says now.

Well, expectations are very, very high.don't ask me to count medals because I never count medals before, but certainly we have a very good team and the preparations have been intense.

Chipper Jones

Well, not for all of October. If they asked me to play again, I would certainly go to camp for a week or so to prepare for it, but not a month.

Those national percentages are pretty reflective of (giving to) UWS. Our most productive strategy is to reach out to individuals. One of my main responsibilities is traveling throughout the United States talking to alumni, cultivating relationships and asking people to contribute to the university. There's kind of a rule in fundraising that 90 percent of your support comes from 10 percent of your donors. The greatest return is really from those individual relationships and from those individuals who make those major gifts.

John Jenkins

Tyco, having been victimized by these defendants, respectfully asks the Court to impose a sentence that reflects the complete impact of the defendants' crimes and makes restitution to Tyco and its employees,

Two weeks ago traders thought there was no chance. If you had asked me Thursday, I would have said less than a 50 percent chance (of a December hike), at best I would have said a 50-50 chance. Now it looks pretty likely.

Those who fail to deliver will be asked to tender their resignation or risk being forced out in a shareholder revolt.

You have no right . . . to ask a worker whether he or she belongs to the trade union movement or which trade union. That is a person's fundamental right . . . and it is a United Nations basic and fundamental human right. No employer has any right to ask a worker about it.

James Green

Well, let me ask this, ... If he's the king, why wasn't he hired first?

We were investigating RFID standards for the possibility of developing one or more RFID-related patent pools and in the mist of our investigation we were approached by several of the founders of the NFC Forum, who own intellectual property related to NFC. They asked us to develop a patent pool.

Melanie Chisholm

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Jim Allchin

To be clear, the reason why we're doing this is because they asked us to do this. To be clear, some would like for us to continue, and some wouldn't. So what we're trying to do is think about the whole industry, and we don't see any plan in change in terms of PC forecast.

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when your first call is from the president of the United States at 6 in the morning, and your wife asks you if you want to take it.

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when the first call you get this morning is from President Bush at 6 o'clock and (my wife) Sally asked me if I was awake and wanted to take it. I said, 'I think so.

Sonu Nigam

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

Mark Lindsay

Whether e-mails were lost or not was a technical conclusion that had not been reached yet. What I asked be done was to conduct an investigation to determine the nature of the problem.

While we understand the sentiment behind the May 1 events and support comprehensive immigration reform, we are not encouraging workers to participate in the rallies. We are asking workers not to take any unauthorized time off and instead seek pre-approval from their supervisor or participate during non-work hours. We don't want our (employees) to jeopardize their good employment records and incomes by taking unauthorized time away from work.

Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

Whoever asks to go on the date should pay.

While we were out working we were called and asked if we wanted to go down there and work on a volunteer basis. They told us to go home and get our stuff and come back.

We continue to hear from our readers that they want the information offered in the Business Journal on a more frequent basis. Publishing every other week will give those readers what they've been asking for, while giving us the opportunity to better serve the business community by providing more information in a timelier manner.

We expect to ask SEPTA to respond to our nine-page proposal, even if it is just to say no.

Kelvin Sampson

We feel fortunate to win this game. But you know what? Five months from now nobody's going to ask you won it. We're 19-6 and now we move forward.

We can't get into the mindset that being a power team is the only way we can win. These two series (with Baylor and second-place Nebraska next week) are going to ask a lot of us.