Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.

Elizabeth Warren

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Elizabeth Warren

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.

Elizabeth Warren

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

Adam Jones

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Adam Ant

I loved being in a band.

We start out doing spiritual music for the church band. Then, we send the rest of the band home and work on secular stuff.

Harry Shearer

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

Hassan Rouhani

We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You're sanctioning medicine for the people.

We demand that NABI immediately retain an investment bank other than Lehman, or in conjunction with Lehman, to explore strategies to maximize shareholder value.

Ron Gardenhire

We definitely need those guys to hit, that's the middle of the lineup. We need our middle guys to start banging the runs around.

We don't know who will lease these gates. The Delta bankruptcy hearing has not occurred. We don't have those gates in our possession yet.

We won the West Branch League in 1956, 50 years ago. That's the only banner we've got. Up until this year, they said they didn't know basketball existed. Our boys wanted to do something to leave their mark, though.

We want to make sure that despite the scattered showers, we want people to remember that the fire danger is very high to extreme and the burn ban is still in effect.

We want to help get the band back on their feet.

We didn't have as many kids in the student section as we normally do, and we figure the band is worth six to 10 points.

We began with a bang today and suddenly the sellers came out of the woodwork. Certainly a lot of hot money flowed into the tech side recently and that hot money moves so quickly. We may be close to a final sell off on the tech side because it went down a lot faster than it went up.

We are making full efforts to implement the ban and our raiding teams are in the city.

Rick Allen

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

Robert Powell

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Rose George

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.

Sarah Lacy

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Simon Hoggart

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

The data aren't providing any reason for the Bank of Canada to pause. The risks are on the upside for rate increases. Investors are going to sell bonds.

The dangerous outburst of violence with numerous fatalities may kill off the sprouts of confidence that have emerged between the two sides in the course of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and may endanger prospects for further progress toward a settlement.

The decision by the unions is unfortunate, but it clearly underlines the need for a level playing field. This affirms the need for a ban on smoking in all public places.

The department obviously has a concern about the safety issues, as well as the snowmobile going into the water and fuel seepage. But for now there are no plans I know of to ban skipping.

The Delphi bankruptcy is a real watershed point for the UAW, ... The UAW is virtually powerless now.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape it together.

We played well. We had our leading scorer sitting out because of a little bang on his ankle. Without him in the game we had to go to somebody else and had to have a couple of young guys step up.

Tim Rice

We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.

We primarily involve ourselves in the recovery of collateral on behalf of banks and we are expanding by getting involved in matrimonial and separation disputes. We ensure that the matter is resolved and we move on.