Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Howard Stern

I didn't listen to executives.

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

If you really slash executive compensation and perks too much, there will be inclination for people to want to leave.

You wouldn't want sales executives using USB sticks they'd picked up from a trade show, but you might let them use company-issued devices.

Larry Ellison

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

Howard Dean

if the president wants to get this nomination through, with all the flak he's getting from the right wing, he needs to waive executive privilege.

James Burrows

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

Malcolm Forbes

Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.

Orrin Hatch

And it's not fair to even raise executive sessions after we've had two private meetings.

These are not people who are in management. Most likely it would be a sales executive who had a great year and is reaping the rewards for it.

Michael Parenti

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Arlen Specter

It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.

J. Reuben Clark

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

It was a unanimous vote by the executive committee. It was 100 percent. It didn't take five seconds to vote.

John Roberts

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

Joe Roth

I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing their own work.

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Shirley Franklin

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

William J. Brennan

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.