Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Straw

We must have a bargain which enables both sides to come out of it with their head held high.

I thought we discussed wages and COLAs in our closed session and the board established bargaining guidelines last week. I'm somewhat at a loss that this is a continuing discussion.

He was the only player they wanted. We were not in a very good bargaining position.

If the bargain is that you are going to get lower property taxes but higher sales taxes, that is no bargain at all for the folks making less than $100,000. They are going to end up with more of a tax burden than they had before.

If they ratify, we have a new collective bargaining agreement.

If they had been part of our union, they might not be in the position they are in today. They did not have company-wide leverage in the discussions about their future. USW workers are protected because we have company-wide leverage. It's the breadth of our representation throughout the company that gives us more strategic bargaining leverage.

Robert Fitzgerald

There are probably 20 different stocks ... I will be bargain hunting, ... on how they react to the upcoming correction.

Adlai Stevenson

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Mark Mobius

We were excited about Hong Kong two years ago and we put a lot of money there. Now we're more cautious because we're finding better bargains elsewhere. Quite frankly, we're investing in China.

While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders.

While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent leap in gas prices has begun wearing off just in time for the holiday season. Despite this latest boost in confidence, holiday spending will be driven by the bargains consumers have come to expect.

We are entering the time of year when historically gas prices have tended to rise because consumption increases. We are starting out this season at a level that is much higher than last year, and last year was certainly no bargain at the gas pump.

The President's proposal should be viewed as an initial bargaining position.

Alex Wong

Financials are the natural choice for bargain hunters because retail sales in the U.S. were weak so investors feel the upside for interest rates may be less than expected.

The government's role is necessary for big deals; foreign parties are monopolies while Chinese parties are diversified and do not have significant bargaining power.

When you have a low volume Friday selloff, you'll sometimes see the bargain hunters come back in Monday.

While it is their right to seek an impasse, we believe the best way to resolve our difference is at the bargaining table.

We have been clear we are willing to sit down and bargain at anytime, but they need to move off that last proposal that was soundly rejected.

We'll have to see what all the options are before anything gets decided. But hockey is different today. The new (collective bargaining agreement) makes things much different.

Tony Campolo

We all want to buy sneakers at bargain prices at WalMart. Children have to be exploited in factories in Thailand to produce them. If we want to stop that over in Thailand, we've got to be able to pay a price here in the United States.

There is nothing that we plan to submit to the court of inquiry on Monday nor does plea bargain have anything to do with this case. Beyond that, Cmdr. Waddle will continue to respect the privacy of the families and have no comment on his meeting with them, other than to acknowledge that it happened, even as other third parties may choose to publish press releases and spin it as they choose.

Alan Rosenberg

The recent election made clear that our membership expects concrete results, particularly in our collective bargaining and our nationwide organizing efforts.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev

There is no room for bargaining here. We must proceed from market trends.

Sky Dayton

We're not looking to be the bargain basement provider.

We've definitely seen that trend. We have a line of wine that would be considered bargain wine, a table wine, that 15 years ago comprised 100 percent of our sales. Now more than 50 percent of our business comes from the higher priced segment of the market - 20 years ago it would have been nothing.

To that end, bargain hunters will find some of the year's best deals during that seven-week period between New Year's Day and Presidents Day (in mid-February). After that the rates can go up significantly.

There is no plea bargain policy. I think there were people here in the bureaucracy that didn't want to make a deal. He was trapped.

Over the last five or six years, there's a lot more day-to-day contact between our offices on a whole host of things. You develop better working relations as a result of doing that. You hope that that translates into something which makes bargaining a little easier. But that's something you wait to find out.

Our focus is on the bargaining table. The union feels it can be done, we feel it can be done. We just have to follow through.

We never received a counter proposal from the company. Nothing but a rejection letter. My opinion was that their minds were already made up that we entered into nothing but surface bargaining with the company.

I think there was some bargain hunting coming in on the back of good news.

I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.

I think consumers should see good bargains on a lot of stuff. The next few weeks we are really going to see the harvest pick up from all the growers who replanted after Hurricane Wilma.