Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharad Pawar

Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.

While some of the decline was related to the effects of Hurricane Floyd, the fact that all four regions fell suggests that higher mortgage rates are also having a constraining effect.

While our scheduled time frame to reverse the comparable-store sales decline at the Speedy locations proved overly optimistic, since September we have made considerable progress in improving their performance.

Rachel Sklar

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

We've had pullbacks in the price over the last few months, and the prices have always rebounded, so there's some wariness. You need to see a more sustained decline in prices over a longer period of time.

We already were expecting a 5,000-job decline in manufacturing employment in May.

There is a lot of nervousness about gasoline after the huge decline in supplies the last five weeks.

Ronald Reagan

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

Ivan Krastev

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.

We would not make the statement today that spam has completely declined. What we can say, and what we believe, is that spam has declined as far as reaching the consumer's in-box. I think it's a big difference from saying overall spam volumes are down.

There has been a sharp decline in oil prices recently, so people started to come back and pile into the energy sector.

There has been a decline over the past four to five years because the weather has not been good to us.

Eliot Spitzer

There has been a decline in ethics and we've got to turn it around,

We saw a pretty significant, 12 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in memory prices.

There is no question that many households are suffering declines in real incomes.

Our research will document the decline of pocket gophers in Georgia, identify remaining habitat and discuss steps to ensure the long-term survival of this species.

Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

It is a time-tested pattern. February has essentially returned to normal conditions, suggesting to me that we will see a substantial decline in housing starts.

That decline is considerably less than we've seen in other years.

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

Dick Cheney

Rebate checks, a rate reduction on tax day and a stimulus package helped turn three quarters of decline into two quarters of growth,

We're seeing a definite decline in settlement rates. But we don't know how it will pan out in the fishery.

We do license products very selectively. In the past, we've declined to license such products. We would rather be out there riding the products down the road.

Without a doubt, the decline mainly reflects the run-up in gasoline prices.

Michigan is not yet at rock bottom, but it will be in three to five years. We are a seeing an economic decline in the next five years.

The practice of torture, though on decline particularly in urban areas, remains widespread in China.

Ben Bernanke

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

Unfortunately, what has precipitated this decline is a real fear of interest rates rising. Personally and professionally, I think interest rates go a little higher than most people expect and until that happens, until we see the end of that fear, I think the market between now and the end of June is going to be very, very nervous.

I think if anything, interest rates will stay still or decline and that could potentially offset the petrol issue.

We think that these feedbacks are starting to take hold and that we're going to see an accelerated decline in sea ice.

The last two quarters have seen U.S. wireless voice metrics move to a new rate of decline. The decline in per-minute voice revenues continues.

The long-awaited New Zealand dollar decline is coming. The huge investor inflows over 2005 will see to that.