Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Egeland

The United Nations stands ready to help with any kind of disaster expertise that might be required ... in full recognition that the United States is the country in the world that possesses the greatest civilian and military search and rescue and recovery assets themselves,

David McIntosh

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

We want to make sure all assets are in place to evacuate so that no one in South Carolina dies because they weren't able to leave South Carolina and go inland to safety.

Jeffrey Goldberg

We are more market-driven than tenant-driven. If you look at our ownership we are focused on asset improvement and seek situations where we can get improved occupancy and rental rates.

What an asset she's been to our team. Since she came out from basketball she's been a key contributor for out team. She did a great job tonight.

This is unlikely to be a significant negative for the dollar. They're unlikely to start moving heavily out of dollars as U.S. assets still yield more than in Europe or other countries.

This is tremendous to have six teams in here at one time and have the best kids on each team in this room. It is an asset for these kids to get different looks from (wrestlers who) have different styles.

They're good players, they work hard, and they're an asset to this team. We have confidence in whoever they play here. The record speaks for itself.

They're going to get a deal done, but they may end up paying a premium. These firms are finding an increasing portion of their bottom line attributed to trading and asset management.

Marcus Camby

I know Coach really likes him. I don't know if they've got something worked out other than being a player on this team, but I think he'd be a valuable asset to us.

In these difficult times, if we can allocate assets where they can produce higher returns, we will move those assets into markets that will generate a bigger return.

I hope somebody who cares does something. This is an asset to the city.

I have seen enough to suggest he could be an asset to the team.

Investors have been pouring money into dollar-denominated assets this year, where returns are higher.

Harry Hamlin

In the time I've been locked up here, I've met a lot of other people who are locked up and who may have committed crimes to be put here, but are not criminals anymore, they're really fine people and they're productive and an asset that society vastly under uses.

Investors are favoring lower-cost funds and are putting more assets into them.

Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been better than expected.

Alan Greenspan

investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities compromises the efficient allocation of our capital -- which?is so essential to raising our standards of living.

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

In the case of the Link REIT, the government sold off the assets too cheaply, providing hedge funds like the TCI with an immediate upside.

If your goal is to restrict the asset growth of Magellan to keep it a smaller and more nimble fund, this isn't going to do it.

E. B. White

If you want to build the condos, that's fine, but to get rid of a cultural asset makes no sense. Don't destroy these buildings indirectly by leaving only the facades. It's a hypocrisy to say you want to preserve the history to then gut the buildings.

In my view, the perils of another burst asset bubble far outweigh the costs of another recession,

In a disaster, no state in the Union has all the assets to do what will be needed.

It has the most significant port operations on an island nation. I trust the management and will leave it to them, but given the quality of the assets there seems room on the upside.

if there hasn't been a change (in Milosevic's approach) in the next three days, the Contact Group's decision to impose an asset freeze will begin to be implemented.

If there's three children that are equal beneficiaries and there's one large asset like we have here, the only real option is liquidation.

I fret for the 55- to 65-year-old investor who is investing the bulk of their assets in high-flying multiples, ... They can permanently impair their capital base. They don't have the longevity to earn back the money.

If you can fund a deferred compensation program for senior executives using a pool of assets that's in effect found money, you're much better off.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

If you're North Korea, why would you give up, in essence, your family jewels -- your military assets ... all you have left -- when we really don't have much on the table?

If you believe this pension-fund legislation will occur, and if you believe there is asset and liability mismatch, then I think you would have to say a 50-year bond could very well occur.

Jerry Yang

If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.