James Williams Quotations

We've all learned a lot about each other's jobs.

Yeah, I suppose so. We'll have to look it up somewhere.

World consumption is growing at a very rapid pace and the time lag to drill new wells to add to capacity leaves us in a precarious position for the next year or so.

With Nigerian problems, uncertainty about the Iran nuclear program before the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) meeting next week, and the overhang of the Saudi attack and an OPEC meeting on the 8th, we are in for a lot of volatility in prices.

Yes, he was standing near the trash can.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Silver will be tough. We will have to play well on our home course, because Silver has the capability of beating us. They are a good golf team.

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Natural gas in storage remains very high for this time of year and the most recent production numbers indicate that, had it not been for the hurricane production, would have been much higher in 2005 than 2004.

I would be very surprised if some of these companies that have stakes in these projects don't already have their lawyers working on lawsuits.

I wish we could push a button and find a way to engage the private sector and make this free.

If this Russia/Ukraine problem reduces natural gas to Europe there will be some fuel switching there. Higher demand in could Europe drive up crude prices worldwide.

I don't know of a kid that worked harder to get where he was at,

I am encouraged by the progress we made,

I am saddened very much by the latest events. I don't really know where we go from here. Looks like at this time we're in for the long haul. I'm fed up -- looks like we are just going to have to walk the picket lines. My members are losing money. Ever day it is getting worse, than getting better.

Cause that will probably be broken this year.

I have been in contact with his family. I will continue to be in contact with his family, and they are obviously concerned about him and this situation.

If anyone's at fault, it's the shareholders who don't want to hold a stock for a decade.

If it were not for Rita, everything in the report looks bearish,

We can expect to hear news out of Iran that, on one hand, says they continue to produce and, on the other hand, threatens dire consequences.

He just sort of surveys things, ... Sometimes, he'll tell the director something. But he's pretty quiet. And I think that's a good role for him.

I would say there are probably under 2,000 right now.

Katrina has already had twice the price impact of Ivan on crude oil.

It could be that it's really, really bad, but we don't know. We're not going to know for a few days. It's going to be a scary few days.

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Outside of concern about interruptions from Nigeria or Iran, there is no fundamental reason for prices not to weaken.

Our boys picked up their first team leg and missed a second team leg by three shots.

Some of the oil price change is the market taking a calmer look at the situation in Nigeria and the potential for a supply interruption from Iran.

We now match last year's storage and are almost 12% above the five-year average.

We now have too much gas and we still don't have all of the Gulf production back on line.

Well, about five years ago, when I was invited to the Pentagon, they were still saying that, only 1.5% of the male pilots in the Air Force were black - and they still had a problem with some of the instructors saying blacks were not qualified to fly - blacks didn't have enough brains to fly. I mean, that was existing five years ago.

I was one of 101 black officers arrested. And this was April 12th of 1945; they charged us with the 69th article of war - which is treason during wartime. Actually, what we did helped to get Colonel Davis back to command the group - the composite group here in the states. And also helped integrate the Air Force and the rest of the Armed Forces.

We just did not play well. The focus just wasn't there.

We were lucky to have somebody like David for the past nine years.

We have very high volumes in storage for this time of year. We are 16% above the five-year average and above last year's numbers.

There is little good news from oil-producing countries.

We've been working on that because I like to go outside, but it's been working when I hit the hole hard.

To me, the post office is still one of the best values around. We'll mail a letter, if it doesn't go through, we'll send it back for free, we'll forward it, and all for 39 cents.

When I woke up at about 6 a.m., it was gone, ... It was beached on a neighbor's beach. I'm glad it came in instead of going out.

We're the oldest Irish bar in the entire area of Lansing.

What can I say. The girls are playing extremely well and Jordan is getting tremendous support from her teammates.

Everything has been great. There were a lot of doubts before the season. No one thought we could do this. We weren't sure how good we could be, but we knew we could be a good team. Our confidence has been growing each week.

Even the U.S. is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

At that time, I knew that there were no blacks in the Marine Corps; and the only thing a black did in the Navy - he was a mess attendant.

Crude oil, gasoline and distillate stocks remain above the five-year average. We have all the crude we need.

I've been waiting in line (for gas) for an hour.

The words that matter most in my life now is when people tell me that I remind them of my brother,

It was to get the people of New Orleans to come home and to get them excited about coming home.

The short answer it is fear driving the market and whether it is justified or not the fear itself is real and doesn't always lead to rational behavior.

The strong build in gasoline coupled by the fact that every major product has inventories above the high end of their average range for this time of year will add to the recent bearish sentiment.

School will start on the seventh. We will have challenges. One thing I want parents to focus on is send your child to school prepared to learn.

Depending on how you number the week's of the year looking back a decade, this is either the highest or second highest reported storage number for this time of year.

You might say that we have gas to burn.

This action would tend to make companies more skittish about investing there. Even if they find the current terms acceptable, even if they enter into a contract with Venezuela, will they keep it?

They trained 26 black cadets there. And I think of about, close to 15,000 cadets trained at Yale; but 26 of them were black.

They didn't have a lot of short third downs to make. Our linebackers and secondary are exceptional at pass defense. We were getting a little pressure up front and they were in a position where they had to pass the ball to get a first down. They had a ways to go. We're forcing them into a corner we can keep them in. And then everybody went out and made the plays. I guess all the cogs were clicking, all the machinery was working.

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

It's usually best to let them know about CCS before asking for a contribution. That way, they feel comfortable about giving. People like it when you tell them where their money is going.

It's been a tough seven days for him, but it was one (week) that made a good impression on him and it tells him now that the love is over, he has to go on with his life. I think the courts have his attention, and we're happy with the disposition because it will keep his record clean, if he stays away from her.

Everybody is having the same problems. You've still got some natural gas production in the Gulf that is off-line. But right now with the warm winter, we have plenty of natural gas. The natural gas prices will go down further. And as they do, so will your power costs. It's going to be about three months before things get better. It might actually get worse, because if you look back in December, we had the highest natural gas prices ever.

I've gone the last mile, I can go no further, ... I've gone through the government cooling off period and nothing has worked.

It was just an outstanding day for our golfers. Everybody -- from top to bottom -- contributed their best golf of the year, Boys and girls.

The U.S. natural-gas market is essentially a North American market with almost all of the gas coming from the U.S. or Canada. This insulates our market from the European natural-gas market.

They have people that leave, for what they call their leave period and sometimes they don't come back, ... Typically these are new recruits, typically coming into the unit, who wanted to do something for their country but they decided, maybe this is a little bit crazier than I thought.

Every week, we're getting a little better. We're better than people think. We don't want to look ahead, but we want the Del Val championship. We're still coming together. I'm not sure we know what we're capable of.

The labor pool is still good here. The number of Hispanics coming into the state is very strong. Then, you've got baby boomers that are looking to move out of some of the larger houses that they have and downsize into something that's easier to take care of. ... You've just got a strong demand for housing right now.

The inventory gains were on the high side of expectations and all of the fundamentals point to lower prices as crude stocks, as well as all the major petroleum products, are well above the high end of the normal range.

I'm reading offenses a lot better. I'm bigger and faster and seeing things all over the field. I'm confident I'm going to make the play. I feel like a coach on the field. I feel like it's my defense.

I'm happy they picked me to help. This is a worthy cause, and I love doing it.

If you pay more than the minimum payment each month, pay it off earlier and you'll cut down the amount to interest on that card.

Intense wave action can whip pipelines like spaghetti.

Hey, Coach, is there a record for interceptions?

The market was concentrating on Nigeria, Iran and the latest bin Laden tape.

The market seems to be on an emotional roller coaster balancing two conflicting items -- going up on the fear of a supply interruption with very limited spare capacity, and down on exceptionally high inventories and sufficient supply in the market.

The last time this happened was in the spring of 2004 when a number of areas in New England switched to an ethanol blend.