Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat White

The city of Dallas, and you, the Dallas City Council, will and must assume responsibility to protect the interests of your neighborhoods, the residents and the taxpayers that are impacted by Love Field.

David Allen

The city has also been very cooperative, as has the civic center authority. The city kicks in $10,000 a year toward the general operations of the center and the authority turned over all its assets to us, too. We all have a vested interest in seeing our civic center stay open. It's a good facility. We want people to use it and hope it stays that way.

Nancy Pelosi

The Chinese bid for Unocal is compelling evidence of America's strategic energy vulnerability, ... China has clearly decided to meet its growing energy demand by obtaining control of energy assets around the world.

The Champions Tour would like to thank Jimmy Lee III and everyone associated with Buffalo Rock Corporation for their outstanding support of this event over the years. Jimmy laid the groundwork for the very bright future of professional golf in northwest Florida.

The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.

Gene Clark

The challenge will be to bring more uranium production online to assure market balance.

The challenge is to make driver assistance relevant to the driver and support them, rather than taking control away from them, or flooding them with information.

The challenge is on the RBA and other players in the industry to increase the level of coverage and hence further strengthen the asset base of the industry.

The Center will be there to help new and existing business owners with any and all business related problems, questions or concerns. We are basically a government consultant group that has a wide range of expertise to assist businesses.

The Findlay fans were leaving the stadium, leaving in droves, because they thought the game was over. One of the assistant coaches came up to me and said, 'You better think of two plays because we only have time for two plays.' We had no timeouts left.

The findings of our studies did not fit most people's preconceived notions about how DNA molecules work, so they assumed we had to be wrong. The critics seemed very sure of themselves, and we had a lot of sleepless nights.

The first quarter results were quite strong. All key assets were drivers.

The firing of my assistant was nothing but a political pay back because I stated the facts and the law regarding the senior center initiative petition. There has been an assistant to the clerk for the past 17 years, a lot longer than there has been an administrator or administrative assistant.

Jerry Yang

The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.

Christian Smith

The financial assistance is available. We are eager to help them, not only financially, but from a counseling standpoint, so we can try to make the process as easy as possible.

The finality of the inventory correction is not only great for Intel but the entire semiconductor market. Investors had been assuming that the first quarter would be the bottom but it's nice to see real evidence of it.

The community is very, very fortunate to have this type of care here. It's a great asset for a community of this size to have these services.

Michael York

The company very much regrets this happened. It is committed to assisting those who have positive screen results. The company is taking steps to ensure this does not happen again.

The company tried to do too much too quickly. What I think it needs to do is focus around key assets it has.

The company is building critical mass by buying overseas assets at a fraction of the value where they were a couple of years ago and isn't troubles by corporate or extraneous issues dogging Viacom or Disney.

The company has to sell off assets in order to substantially reduce debt prior to emerging from bankruptcy.

The commission won't be there to harass or to oblige. It will make an assessment and recommend what we need to do. A channel of dialogue will be opened.

The comments show that Japan's economy is growing rapidly and deflationary pressure is near an end. A rebound in asset prices will have the most positive impact on the banking sector because it will stimulate an increase in loan demand.

The comments by Tim Adams were a bombshell. This is the first clear warning in a very long time by the U.S. that Japan shouldn't cap the rise in the yen. The implicit assumption is the yen will indeed strengthen.

The conditions for establishing assets management companies have matured in China.

The conditions for establishing asset management companies are ripe.

The commodity was down earlier today because we are seeing a bit of profit-taking on stocks. The market looks like it is stabilizing a little bit. With everything that has happened, people are going to continue looking at different asset classes ? from bonds, to gold, to health care ? largely defensive plays as investors look for safe havens.

Dan Wilson

The concern has to do with the problem Macon has with giving resources and support to neighborhoods that it deems are expendable, ... All I wanted was some assurance this had been thought through.

The concept was not a concept that Cox created. We were assured this was fine. Certainly we're big boys, and we check out things. At this point, we're comfortable that no laws were broken.

Mila Kunis

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Margaret Spellings

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

Laurie R. King

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Lester B. Pearson

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.