Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not asking for any public subsidy of any kind. But the height of the new buildings is what provides the subsidy.

We're not asking for any kind of special treatment for him. We want them to follow their own rules.

We're not asking for amnesty. It's about respect. And taking to the streets is a way to make a statement.

We're not asking for a handout here, we're asking for an investment.

We're not asking for a blank check. What it's saying is, if we have extra earnings, the district could legally say we're going to use it toward these projects.

Rick Honeycutt

We're not asking anything that they haven't done before. Just to give us what should be a normal year. My biggest job is to get them back to what they do best.

We're awfully familiar with one another. It's tough enough beating a team three times. Four is asking for a lot.

Garrett Gomez

To picture him doing what he just accomplished? No. From 5½ to a mile and an eighth in a short period of time and beat the kind of horses he did, that's asking a lot.

We knew we were good, but we kept asking ourselves what the hell is our problem. We were wondering why we can't win this game or that game. Why we can't win close games. The one thing this team does lack is experience on the court.

We know we're going to have problems unless we get a really good rain. We've had a lot of grass fires, so we are really asking people to show some restraint.

We know we have workers on Medicaid. We're trying to improve that. We're asking the state to help us improve that, but we're not getting any answers.

Rob Blake

We know he's very talented. We're asking a lot of him, but he's up to the task.

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Michael Ramsey

We want her on the stand. We will put in all the notes from those meetings. They'll show that (Enron) was a well-run organization and a lot of people were asking righteous questions. They demonstrate an intelligent corporation in action.

Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Joel Klein

We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Shai Agassi

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

We started it last year as a one-time shot on a Saturday. And on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we kept getting calls asking us if we were going to do it again.

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

With two in the second, we're getting lots of calls. We've talked to just about everyone in the league, and it seems as if more people are asking us if we want to move up rather than the other way around.

Workers have got to be asking themselves, what do we have to do?

Mark Zandi

Workers are asking for bigger pay increases and they are getting them. The pendulum has swung decidedly in favor of workers.

Chad Jones

We're still crunching those numbers but we will be asking for an increase.

We're staying put, ... Nobody took any pleasure asking candidates not to go to another state. All we are asking is to preserve our tradition going back to 1920 and a Feb. 1 primary assures us of having that.

Brian Duffy

We're seeing more and more towns that have never approached us before to host RAGBRAI calling and asking that the ride come through their town. Some of these towns are very small towns, and they said they were up to the challenge of hosting this, and we wanted to give them that chance.

George Smith

We're not here to kill the project. We're asking for equal access.

Rick Honeycutt

We've got guys who are capable of pitching 200 innings, which is something they've done in the past. I don't think we're asking anything that they can't do or haven't done. We've been healthy this spring, and that's good.

When we brought out Richard Petty, people started coming up and asking for autographs, ... and we didn't expect that.