Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

Paul Rodriguez

It's a very complex bill, so we're going to take some time to examine it. But we look forward to working with Chairman Barton on these issues.

The remarks by Chairman Kalikow are very unfortunate and do not bode well for these negotiations.

They're entitled to their opinion. I don't think that's the proper forum, to take on the chair and question his integrity. In that situation, I think it was wrong, ... terrible.

There's a lot of musical chairs going on.

Ricardo Mayorga

You remind me of an old lady that's past her prime that should be sitting home in a rocking chair doing nothing.

Alan Ayckbourn

You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair instead of putting her in a theatre where she wasn't at home and was struggling.

Kelly King

If you have six chairs open, you need 12 guards on duty. One sits in the chair, and the other patrols the beach.

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

In the days before term limits, politicians who knew they weren't ever going to be governor were content to stay in the Legislature. They knew that being a Senate committee chair was a better job than being lieutenant governor.

I want to take full responsibility for my actions, and to that end, I am submitting a letter of resignation as Chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee to Speaker Glenn Richardson.

The new chairman, undoubtedly, is going to be someone that the administration is comfortable with, but I think the new chairman should take the step early on of showing that they are going to remain independent-minded.

Pete Domenici

The Federal Trade Commission is not specifically subject to the jurisdiction of this Committee, but any oil company that is price gouging will find themselves in those witness chairs where they will be made accountable,

The consumer sector has been on of the strongest in the economy, and that's the sector that (Federal Reserve chairman Alan) Greenspan worries about.

Anthony Marra

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.

I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worked for a former chairman or CEO. This may be the first time that the Sergeant Schultz defense has worked.

Bobby Rush

I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.

I met with him earlier today he was in a great mood. He has gotten up in a chair today.

Tom Johnson

I met J.B. Fuqua in the early '60s. I was then a young reporter and he was the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia,

If I were chairman of the board, I would turn to Mark and tell him to do exactly what you have been doing a while longer. Improve margins further, keep establishing your credibility on Wall Street, and go get more market share now that Dell is on the run.

Jacques Rogge

I have no concerns. The chairman of the coordination commission has no concerns,

I had to push my chair back to get up.

Neil Abercrombie

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it,'' I was told.

I know Coach. He was probably sitting on the edge of his chair on every play, hoping a guy would make a tackle or force a turnover. He knows the game. He understands it, and I'm just glad we could give him some comfort for three hours.

It's really not uncommon for the chairman or other executives to visit the factory.

The dollar impact will emerge from whether the Fed Chairman confirms the scaling down in market's expectations of a May rate hike. We deem the Fed to be uncertain as to what it will do in the May meeting as it is far too early for the 'data-dependent' institution to decide.

The county party chair stuck his finger in the cookie jar. It's just despicable.

David Jones

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman . . . the markets could be very unsettled.

The first time I used Pandora on my Squeezebox, I was glued to my listening chair for the entire weekend. I used to get the thrill of finding a new song I liked once a week. Now I feel it one song after another, listening to any style of music.

The chair next to Nana was never empty for long - it was prime real estate.

The chairman wanted to get our attention. He has our attention.

Bernard Ebbers

the chairman told us he would keep an open mind.