Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Joyce

We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have enhanced our financial flexibility. We currently have sufficient resources to retire the remaining '06 convertible notes at maturity and based on current forecasts we believe we will have sufficient liquidity available to satisfy the $146 million of 5% convertible notes due March 2007. As previously announced, during the first quarter of 2006 we purchased in the open market $30 million face value of our outstanding $471 million aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior notes due February 2008.

Alan Greenspan

Until market forces, assisted by a vigilant Federal Reserve, affect the necessary alignment of aggregate demand with the growth of potential aggregate supply, the full benefits of innovative productivity acceleration are at risk of being undermined by financial and economic instability,

Eric Rachal

What we do is we measure the response time to process one of these e-mail transactions for each one of those servers. And then we aggregate that data cross all of those servers every five minutes.

Robert Blendon

When there would be changes, they'd staff up the Social Security offices. Every congressman would staff up the office. Every mayor had a Social Security specialist so at the local level they could help people see how their benefits changed. The aggregate long list of choices - calling an 800 number, going to a website - is just very hard for seniors.

Shashi Tharoor

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Jeff Smulyan

We're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations,

David Miller

If the Series is two large-market teams, like the Yankees versus the Dodgers, aggregate revenues would easily exceeded rights fee payments.

John M. Smith

I could swear I heard a score recently - 16 September, 2003 to be precise - where the home team won 6-0 and where the aggregate score was six-all. I think it was a League Cup match in Wales. Was I dreaming? And if not, is this the biggest two-leg comeback of them all?

Kim Rupert

We suspect the FOMC will say that while Katrina had a devastating regional impact, aggregate growth should be only temporarily damped.

James Sutherland

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

Stephen Ward

We've always wanted to compete directly with Dell. Since we announced this merger, we have taken customers away from Dell in every geographic region. We have got the clearest channel practices of anyone in the industry. We have no change in our strategy, in our partners and our channel.

Joe Bailey

When we announced we had signed the agreement with the Orange Bowl to extend the contract for eight to 12 years, we said Dolphins Stadium was going to be the premier site for major sporting events in the U.S.. We're doing everything we can to basically make it a brand-new stadium.

Steve Jobs

When we announced the Microsoft deal six months ago in Boston, we heard boos which I thought was crazy. In an industry of 'flash-in-the-pan' partnerships, this has turned out differently. Microsoft is out to continue a very healthy application business on the Mac,

Peter Thonis

When we announced the merger agreement on Aug. 8, this was not the case.

Patrick Reilly

When we announced Howard's plan to come to SIRIUS back in fall 2004, we had about 700,000 subscribers. At the end of 2005, a week before he began his first show with SIRIUS, our number of paid subscribers had reached 3.3 million.

Wang Zhaowen

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

Christa Carone

We found some unexpected problems related to our customer receivables in Mexico, which we announced two weeks ago, and we have launched our own thorough internal investigation. We are fully cooperating with the SEC and will be in a position to provide more information when we release second-quarter earnings.

John Rudolph

With them closing the road like this, basically without giving anybody any notice, it's almost like they wanted to avoid pressure from the neighborhood public there. If they would have announced this a couple of months ago, people would have started complaining - and they might not have gotten their project done.

John Battelle

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Sandra Taylor

We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there.

Harry Reid

We're spending a lot of money in the Gulf, ... We have to do that, but is there anyone in the world that can justify $70 billion in tax cuts? I don't think so. So before I talk about offsets, let the president focus on that.

Edward Kennedy

We're going to support the servicemen and women, ... But when you're asking for the tens of billions of dollars in reconstruction, we're entitled to the answers to those questions.

Dan Doctoroff

What we're looking at, as we look ahead a few years, is a default, a half-finished site and a developer who walks away with potentially over half a billion dollars in profits and fees. We simply can't allow that to happen.

Kathleen McGinty

What this is about is saving the state substantial sums of money. It's about having others chip in to solve the $15 billion price tag for cleaning up the problem.

Rob Whiteley

What they're basically doing is taking the $8-$10 billion router and switch market and making it security-savvy. So often we find technology in search of a problem, but that's not the case here. Cisco is responding to market demand.

Jess Blackburn

What he is saying is that $80 billion remains a viable and reachable goal. He's not being as specific as to the timeline.

Lee Bennett

We've battled hard, and because of that and a lot of fate, we have pulled out some close games.

David Morgan

We've always wanted to develop closer ties with India.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've always known that there are people who've tried to infiltrate the various security forces and get to close access to places they ought not to be. There's nothing new about that that I know of.

Jerry Sloan

We've always had a rule in the last second or so: get next to your man. We weren't even close to the guy.

Steve Yzerman

We've always developed it with the close proximity and the Ohio-Michigan thing. There's a lot of enthusiasm at games, and that will just add to it, I'm sure.

Dan Rooney

We've always been very close to the community, and we do what's necessary for Pittsburgh. I like to see that, and I think the Fords are the same way. I like Detroit.

Holly Johnson

When we were practicing for Italy that was one of my main things I talked to Coach Sue and Coach (Cori) Close about - how do I bring that leadership in that two spot? I think it's still coming up and being encouraging and still being positive and energetic.

Colin Farrell

When we were kind of forced (by real life sniper murders in the Washington area that were too close to the film's plot) to pull the picture in October (from its Nov. 15 date), he wasn't nearly as big a star as he is today after 'Daredevil' and 'The Recruit.' He's become this hot guy.

Tino Reyes

When we were getting pretty close to signing him, he called us from one of his maneuvers. I asked him, 'Where are you guys?' He said, 'Up north.' I said, 'Where up north?' He said, 'The Arctic Circle.' That was different. He e-mailed us a picture from there. He had his parka off.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

Jim Rutherford

We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.

Toni Simonetti

We've always said we have a number of strategic alternatives that we're looking at...We continue to do that.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. I think the men's team will continue to get stronger and stronger and we'll be winning many gold medals in the future.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Carroll McCray

We're going to evaluate whether we moved the right guys. We're not opposed to moving any more. But with the two moves last week, and now with Brandon this week, everybody else should stay in their spots pretty much between now and next Tuesday." ()

Mark Harmon

We're going to evaluate him on a daily basis. The earliest he could be back (for a game) would be Friday.

Jim Bates

We're going to evaluate every position. We're going to evaluate, see what happened. We'll evaluate as we do after every week.

Max Gartner

Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.

Ted Roof

When we get the green light, we'll evaluate where he is and where we are and make the best decision we can at that point.

Nick Saban

We felt like he should start in the game. I know he had his penalty or two, but we'll continue to evaluate that and we feel like we have three guys who can play tackle.

Mike Babcock

We're going to have to evaluate our team this summer. And if we have to make changes, we will make changes.

Rick Carter

With the high prices of gas and energy in general, it is becoming more important for families and businesses to save money where they can. A home energy audit is the first step to assess your home's energy diet and to evaluate what measures can be made to make your home more energy efficient. An audit will show you problems that, when corrected, save significant amounts of money over time.

Pete Carroll

We're going to continue to evaluate the situation and see what's going on.

Rick Spring

We've always set team goals. Making 100 points in a game isn't one of them, but if it happens it happens.

George Campbell

We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.

Kevin Cato

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

Dick Umile

When we were down 2-0 tonight, we were playing pretty well. The third goal was not very well played by us. The kid was out front all by himself. We dug ourselves a hole, that?s the disappointing part.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Fred Anderson

We remain focused on our primary goal of returning Apple to sustainable profitability,

Ken Dey

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

Dave Sarachan

We respected Rochester from the opening whistle, and they were a tough team tonight. We knew that it could go that far and I was proud of my team after conceding a goal for hanging in there. We were a little bit whipped, but we just wanted to keep our composure during the overtime and make sure we didn't give up a second goal. I'm proud of my team and pleased to be advancing.

Steven Gerrard

We're going to the final, that's the most important thing. Whether it was a goal or not, I'm sure people will comment on that, but we're happy we're going to Istanbul. Chelsea put us under pressure but we defended really well.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Fred Young

We're going to play nine holes, have a steak dinner and then play nine holes in the dark with glow-in-the-dark balls.

Jim Hunter

We're going to do whatever we need to do, whether it's to park a guy for a week or park a guy for nine weeks. We're going to do whatever we need to do to prevent retaliation on the racetrack.

Chip Williams

What they want to do is drive the line with nine players and make you throw. Their game plan coming in is to score a couple, either off the special teams or a run off the offense, and then shut us out, not allowing us to run.

Chris Capossela

When we asked people what would you like us to do in the next version of Office, nine times out of 10 people have named something that is already in the product. In Office 12, we are making a much more innovative UI to help you get better results faster.

Mike Dement

What a display of free throw shooting by them. It's a possession by possession game and we get beat by nine at the free throw line.

Sergio Garcia

What a back nine we have here. It's amazing. I remember watching in '97. I wanted to come and play Congressional. It was a good opportunity to play a course with so much history. I didn't want to take the chance of missing this week.

Sharon Mayer

We felt like it was our obligation and privilege if they'd like to share the work and proceeds from this year's event. It helps both our budgets and is our responsibility as a chamber to work with our non-profits in Allen, especially when there's a need like this.

Don Dion

What's significant in these figures is the stock holdings have increased substantially and the bond position is down. We continue to see evidence that Bob Stansky is reshaping his portfolio by purchasing blue chip companies with outstanding growth characteristics. He is using existing cash reserves, proceeds from bond sales and revitalized inflows.

Li Yizhong

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Peter Spina

News that the German government has deserted plans to invest proceeds from gold sales into a special fund assigned for research and education has given a boost to a weak gold market.

Ben Holmes

I would have liked to have seen more of the proceeds go to reducing their debt load.

W. Richard Stevens

If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.

Eric Lewis

There is no evidence to show, and it is not credible to argue, that Mr. Sevan, who spent forty years with the U.N. and ran a $64 billion program, would jeopardize his career for $160,000, trust a person he had never met (Abdelnour) to carry out the scheme and report the proceeds on his U.N. financial disclosure forms.

Jeff Smulyan

We're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations,

Pete Townshend

I have high hopes for the whole tour to be shared to a wide audience at home in a mixture of pay-per-view and free special Web casts. Some of the proceeds will go to charity, of course.

Margaret Teo

We remain confident that we will have very strong proposals from the remaining companies and that the Request for Proposals exercise will fulfil our tourism objectives.

Steve McCulloch

We're spread thin. There are a lot of animals coming in. We're remaining on alert.

Boris Worm

We found five large hotspots that are still remaining today, and two of those are in US waters.

Jeff Monford

What makes AIDS hard to deal with is the remaining prejudice and unreasonable fear. Even today, 20 years after the epidemic started, a number of people have still not been personally affected and remain uninformed and reluctant to address the issue seriously.

David Frost

With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (Bank of England's) monetary policy committee to consider an early interest rate cut.

Scott Thornton

We feel that if we way we play the way we played tonight against all the other remaining teams that we can definitely beat them all.

Bill Gates

We're hoping the remaining states will join in this agreement so that everyone can focus on the future and avoid the unnecessary costs and delays of further litigation, ... While this decree will place significant restrictions on Microsoft's business, we believe this is a fair and reasonable settlement that will be good for consumers, good for the high-tech industry and good for the economy.

Scott Terry

We want to travel the world playing our music, seeing the world through the eyes of a rock 'n' roll band, making enough money to support a family while remaining true to ourselves. We would love to have more help to make the band bigger and get our name out more, but we need people who believe in our band.

Ralph Lauren

We are pleased with our performance in the quarter, given the challenging economic environment, ... We continue to strive to be an innovator in the industry by constantly updating our products and merchandise as we seek new customers, while remaining faithful to the traditional Polo customer. This strategy, balanced with sound business practices in a competitive marketplace, is what built Polo Ralph Lauren and made it a leader for three decades, and this strategy will take us into the next decade.

Donald Steel

We've asked investment bankers to assist with the review, but that doesn't mean we're putting it up for sale. We're exploring every option, from status quo to complete sale and everything in between.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Jim Hawkins

We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.

Alan McCollough

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Matthew Fassler

We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.

Jeff Bong

We're so thankful. The support of the community both in donations and sales has far exceeded our expectations.

James Simmons

We're going to renovate it and get it ready for sale. And we are going to use the funds from the sale to advance the education system here.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

David Singer

Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.

Jim Hawkins

We remain very excited about our recent acquisition of Bio-logic Systems. We have made great progress in the integration of Bio-logic, including the successful combining of our two sales and marketing organizations. We are also making significant operational changes to the organization that will make their operations more efficient. We remain very confident that the acquisition of Bio-logic will be accretive to our earnings in 2006 and beyond.

Alan McCollough

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Matthew Fassler

We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.

Jeff Bong

We're so thankful. The support of the community both in donations and sales has far exceeded our expectations.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

Janna Sampson

What they're doing to drive sales growth in the U.S. matters the most. We know they're trying to replicate in Europe the great gains they've had in the U.S.

Pat Battle

When we began our analysis of the videogame landscape, it became apparent that EA SPORTS was best positioned from a marketing and development perspective to maximize the sales opportunities for college football.