Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas R. Oberhelman

Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

Why he should be governor and any kind of personal connection ... was never there. I think the money was badly spent.

Kevin Brooks

Why does that make them a bad juror because they followed the law?

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

We've come to not expect really bad news, and this was really bad news.

We've come a million miles from the bad old days. But no law changes the basic fact that employers want to do what's good for business. Their job is not necessarily to do what is good for you.

To be in first place is really hard to comprehend, but it feels great. Last year we were getting beat bad and now this.

Dean Smith

We were told to throw it inside to Big Clyde. He couldn't jump that well but he had great touch from 15 feet. And he had good hands. He'd catch even my bad passes.

Nicholas Kristof

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command

Too many times legislation is fueled after bad things happen. What we're trying to do is do something before something bad happens.

Too many people in public believe that once we rescue children from bad situations and bad families, they're going to be saved.

This year was definitely more open than the bad old days, but the door was only open a crack. In the old days, I felt like I was outside of the Vatican waiting for the white smoke instead of waiting for the budget.

Luis Aragones

To say that we've played badly and we've failed in this, this and this is normal. I believe in the national team and in the players I've got and I think that little by little they're believing in what I tell them.

We just have to remember how bad this feels and hopefully move on from there.

We just have too many stretches where we play bad basketball. We started the game in great shape and then things fell apart. We let them get away from us. Those bad stretches have hurt us all season.

We just have to move forward. It does hurt really bad though.

We didn't get off to too good of a start in the first quarter falling behind as bad as we were playing offensively. We were able to hang onto it because Y-C was making some early turnovers and giving us every opportunity to stay in the game.

We know that most problems in hospitals are not due to one bad doctor or one bad nurse. Problems come from the systems in the organization. And by looking at the performance of the whole organization, we're able to look at those hospitals that have goals for true performance, leadership that stands behind it ...

We've been down before. We have a lot of confidence. We didn't feel that bad when they scored a goal.

Gary Green

We weren't as sharp as the direction we were headed. We had really good innings, but we had really bad innings, too.

We weren't as bad as our record sounded. We lost to Jerome, but Jerome was a good team. We struggled throughout the season with injuries, but we're not using that as an excuse.

We were not too bad for the first two periods.

We voted for a statesman, and we got a manager, and not a bad manager. He has, at the same time, both built and torpedoed democracy. The weakening of the presidency has helped the transition because it made us realize that other (government) institutions didn't work.

We've won three out of our four (conference) series, but unfortunately one bad weekend in league can hurt you. Two one-run losses and one big-series loss and we're still trying to recover from that.

We were very motivated (to rebound). (Davis) kind of made us feel bad because he said a Division I team should never get 18 rebounds -- especially Indiana ... We got 39 tonight and hopefully we can keep doing that.

S. E. Hinton

We don't like to say the 'R' word in the ski industry. If it does rain this week it shouldn't hurt that bad because we have a good base.

Jacques Chirac

We can't trust people who have such bad food. After Finland, it's the country with the worst food,

Shelton Quarles

We can't rest on what we've done, ... It's in the past, and we have to keep moving forward and getting better. Regardless of the things we have been doing good, there are still some bad plays here and there. We've been lucky they haven't been exploited, and we just need to keep doing what we're doing and pound the rock.

Rick Carlisle

We competed hard from start to finish. It came down to Duncan making some tough shots. They hit that lucky 3 from the corner, which was a bad break for us. We hung in and played and gave ourselves a chance till the last minute. It's three losses in a row. There's no moral victories. You have to find a way to win games.

We committed some bad turnovers in the final minutes. We had a chance to win. We just didn't get the job done.

We are coming off strong numbers, and I don't think we would want to say bad things about the housing market on the basis of these numbers alone.

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