Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you ask me what's on my wish list for 2006, Caponi continued, the first thing would be recognition that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. People without insurance or with bad insurance don't get treatment or they delay treatment until they must seek emergency care. If nothing else, that's not cost-effective. Emergency room treatment is the most expensive form of healthcare that exists.

If you ask me to name one success, it's hard.

Donovan McNabb

If you ask me, there's no doubt about it, I'll be out there, ... Again, it's just being able to see how your body reacts to an up-tempo practice. It's a good thing now, but we'll see how it feels in the morning.

Neal McCoy

If you ask me something and you don't hear from me, I've dozed off, and I'm gone, so just say goodbye," ()

If you look at the 'Harry Potter' merchandise sales, they tended to go down as each sequel was released. Hasbro was somewhat non-committal when we asked them what they expected the trends this year to be with the Star Wars-related products.

If you knew him and knew what kind of guy he is and how he treats his players, you have to go to war for somebody like that. All he asks for is for you to give 110 percent on that field and for you to know what you're doing. If you can't do that, then we've got a problem.

Charles Krauthammer

If you parse her words very carefully, she always says she is not interested in running for office. She obviously doesn't want to 'run', but if she were asked for the good of the party, I think she would love to be president or vice-president.

Bill Clinton

If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in a kind of a permanent state o

If you like the person you had the year before you can request that they come again. They can ask for us back too, or not.

If you look carefully at the way that they gathered data for that report, it was simply a matter of interviewing police officers and asking them if they profiled based on race. Not surprisingly, they said no.

If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers.

Tom Williams

If you look at what percentage motivates changes in behavior, we hear it's 5 to 10 percent. If you ask doctors to change their practices, the reward has to be worth it.

Roma Downey

If you heard me sing, you wouldn't ask me if I would ever sing!

Louis Armstrong

If you have to ask, then you'll never know (when asked 'what is jazz?')

Mary Landrieu

If you have the votes to overturn (it) ... I would ask my colleagues to be brave enough to do it in public, ... in the middle of the night.

If you go in and ask for 10 more people, they'd rather just pay the overtime,

Charlie Trotter

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

Jeff Koons

If you've got the business community coming in and asking for a dramatic tax cut, one of the first things on the chopping block is going to be the development board, ... There's some tension there.

In the Thai case we have seen the prime minister ask one of the deputy prime ministers to head an inter-ministry group. The high level of political attention is key.

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

I don't know how many times a day I get asked that.

Carlos Boozer

I don't know how long I'll play. You've got to ask Coach that. But I'll be in the game.

I don't know how good he is. I've never leaned on him hard enough to find out. I haven't really asked him to do anything, at this time, that he couldn't do easily.

Matt Hasselbeck

I don't know how to explain it other than we feel really good about what we are doing. We believe in the program. We believe in what the coaches are asking us to do and we believe in each other.

I don't know how to explain it. It was a dream come true. I couldn't ask for anything more. I think I could die happy tonight.

Mike Montgomery

I don't know how much more I can ask for from our guys. We battled tough. Kobe just keeps coming at you. We just need to finish it out.

Graeme Souness

I don't know if there is money to spend. You will have to ask the chairman.

LeBron James

I don't know if I have skills. We'll find out that night. They asked me and I decided to do it.

I don't know if I have ever been as proud of a team in 14 years of coaching. I don't know if you could ask for two better games to start a new rivalry.

Mark Bradley

I didn't think the Wheelers would ever sell that. I had asked about it a few years ago and got the impression that it would never be for sale. Something must have changed or he realized that now is a good time to sell.

Aretha Franklin

I didn't think there was enough, by any means. And it was my feeling: 'How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends -- musical legends plural -- and not ask one or two of them to participate.

Aaron Rodgers

I didn't expect to play at all this season, but I thank Brett for giving us such a big lead, ... Someone asked me if I was nervous before I went in. I was like, 'We're up 45-3, what do I have to be nervous about?' It was a lot of fun out there.