Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hofmeister

We respectfully request that Congress do no harm by distorting markets or seeking punitive taxes on an industry working hard to respond to high prices and supply shortfalls.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,

David Jones

When we finally decide on who our president is, and on the day when we realize the economy is so weak that that new president must cut taxes, and he can't do it because of a divided congress and all the animosity that comes out of this agonizingly long presidential election, the dollar's going to be in trouble.

Robert Joseph

We would urge both Congress and our international partners to avoid the temptation to renegotiate the deal,

Larry Sabato

What has this session of Congress accomplished? I'm sure they can give me a list of minor technical bills but on the big things they have failed.

Hal Rogers

What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.

Harry Reid

What has been the response of this Republican-controlled Congress to the administration's manipulation of intelligence that led to this protracted war in Iraq? Basically nothing,

Karsten Voigt

We can count on the fact that this will be probed by the American public, particularly by the US Congress.

Dave Hamilton

What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster, which essentially pointed up our shortcomings in protecting public health and safety, to repeal environmental rules that are designed to protect public health and safety.

Princess Anne

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

Jeffrey R. Immelt

When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Michael Specter

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

Carl Icahn

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

Billy Sunday

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

Elizabeth Warren

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Kevin A. Ford

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.

Louis Michel

We remember the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts. These are silent tsunamis.

Jason Lamb

When we bought this place we were told this wasn't considered a flood zone. So if I had to pay more for insurance I would be a little upset.

Trilby Lundberg

What has occurred is that supply swelled as our domestic refinery capacity came back on line after recovering from hurricane damage and gasoline imports flooded in to help fill the demand.

Jay Punia

We are getting ready for a major flood fight.

Mike Huckabee

We're doing everything in our power to be a good neighbor, ... Our office has been flooded by calls today from people asking what they can do. The best things they can do now is lend a helping hand to those who are in our state to escape the storm, making a donation to the Red Cross disaster relief fund and pray for those who are still trapped.

Tom Smith

Work with the people to find things that would be creative that would maybe prevent damage. Particularly for people that are really on the periphery of the flood area that could maybe for relatively small investment could do improvements that would prevent flooding.

Howard Dean

Work with Mexico to improve economies in rural America and rural Mexico, and you will stop the flood of people wanting to come to America.

James Griffin

With the mass flooding they had in New Orleans dental records will probably be non-obtainable, medical records are out, so that I guess the only thing that they could do would probably be DNA testing.

Tom Larsen

We expect waves to be up to 28 feet above normal. That would overwhelm a lot of flood defenses.

Brad Anderson

We're pleased with our employees' ability to deliver a customer-centric experience. Additionally, we're gearing up to open a record number of new stores in the coming year as we continue to grow our business.

Ron Lemieux

We're gearing up for the future. We look to be the gateway, the logistical hub of the world for circumpolar navigation.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

Michael Brennan

We're gearing up for Miami, but we want to win this event as well. Key West is a major regatta so it's always a big deal to win here.

Steve Kellar

We're gearing toward the playoffs. We're getting stronger.

Peter Liguori

We're gearing these crimes to almost be popcorn-ish,

Ned Riley

The only concern I do have is I'd like to see a couple more months (of data) put together here before we declare this torrid, hot economy as into another phase of gearing down. I'm not as optimistic yet that we have slowed everything.

John Travolta

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

Harry Miller

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Alfred Einstein

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.

Jonathan Chen

World peace cannot be enforced by those who do not have inner peace. World peace is an inevitable result of individual inner peace.

Jane Fonda

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Eula Biss

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Ed Stoppard

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Jeremy Clarkson

I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Ken Dulaney

We're getting tons of calls on this. Customers are disappointed that RIM is putting this legal case before them.

Kendrick Meek

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

Hani Durzy

When we asked them to show us a law to show it is unlawful, and they were unable to do so, we said they're legal as far as we're concerned.

Craig Holman

What he's doing here is frankly astonishing. This kind of coordination is obviously an attempt to get around legal contribution limits. The bottom line is that public policy is being made not by principle, but by payment up front.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Marrero

What has to happen in order for a house to be brought down are a lot of legal things. We have to provide a notice to the owners and that takes X number of days.

Jesse Jackson

What has not changed is the ballistics report saying the gun that Mr. Graham had is not the one that killed Mr. Lambert, that has not changed, the lack of positive identification has not changed, the lack of cross-examination has not changed, inadequate legal representation has not changed,

Brad Smith

We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet creates and people's desire for free expression.

Mike Rothman

We've asked the city to comply with the state law and provide MRI with this 180-day procedure and because they have not, we have filed this suit on behalf of MRI.

Jim Grant

We've asked departments in the last two years to trim back and be as frugal as possible so we'd have the dollars to provide the services we need to provide.

Jeff Bentoff

We've always been willing to meet, but they won't provide information that we have requested.

Nick Montepara

When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.

The Vikings

When we were 1-2 after the Providence game, our players that following week re-dedicated themselves, ... You don't get better on Friday, you get better on Monday through Thursday, and that's what these guys have done.

Autumn Reeser

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Steve Hill

We're making this investment because Verified is not only first, but the only private provider of Registered Traveler services. So far the program has been very successful.

Chuck Mulloy

We're making changes to our roadmap for processors in 2001 in order to provide some additional memory options for the low-cost platform for Pentium 4-based systems for the mainstream market.

Leon Brittan

We remain ready to cooperate with the U.S. (officials) in accelerating a (WTO) panel provided that they make clear that they are abandoning the unilateral route and respect the rules and procedures of the WTO,

Stephen Perry

What he did today was to make a very prudent business decision, ... With the tax base decimated for the next six to seven months ...(the city) has lost its basic revenue streams and customer base. You've got to pare down to a basic core and rebuild incrementally.

Walt Riker

We're going to do some testing. It's the prudent thing for the company to do. We're looking at every possible innovation and concept. It's more in the speculative mode right now. It would be unfair to jump to conclusions.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Camille Paglia

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

John Felmy

We're still calling on consumers to be prudent in their use of gasoline. It's just a complicated jigsaw puzzle we're putting back together.

Benjamin Graham

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Carlos Ghosn

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Ron Williams

Tom was one of those perpetual-motion reporters, always running from one court to another, ... And if he wasn't in the courthouse or at a trial, he was on the phone. He had probably the best stable of lawyers and court contacts anyone has ever had.

Brian McQuade

We're going to see a lot of the money that has been parked in real estate move back to stocks. Wealth should not be centered in your residential real estate, which is going to return to more stable to flat appreciation.

John Gay

We both want the bill for different reasons. Immigrant advocates want a way for their people to get citizenship and stop dying in the desert. Unions want to grow their membership. We want a stable work force.

Hu Jintao

We both believe sustainable, healthy and stable development of Sino-US ties conforms to ... the common aspiration of our two peoples,

Hu Jintao

We're pleased with the recent sound development of Sino-US relations, ... We both believe it's the common aspiration of the two peoples to maintain sustained, healthy and stable development of bilateral ties.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

Randy Smith

We are pretty excited about the Black Pine study. We have seen a steady decrease in deer numbers in the area. While mule deer numbers to the west and east have increased over the past few years, the Black Pine mule deer herd has remained stable or declined.

Joe Miller

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Mike Riley

We struggled defensively early, but the one stable factor that came back to us is our run defense. It's obvious that Alvin Smith and Henry Anderson and Trent Bray and Keith Ellison played big, big roles for us in that area.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Eric Patterson

We've always gotten off to good starts. We've always beaten the teams that we were supposed to beat. Now, we need to get that big-time victory. That's what we're still waiting for.

W. S. Gilbert

When I was pregnant I used to cook a healthy dinner in the morning. That way, no matter how the day went, there was a nutritious meal waiting at the end of it.

Tim Reznich

When it comes time to play (in the postseason), we have to be ready. We can't wait until the last game to get ready. With this schedule we'll have to be sharp every night or some of these teams are going to take it to us.

Rose Johnson

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Ed Stewart

We're sort of waiting by the phone to hear what they decide.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're getting to the point where people only want to go out to see movies that are as big as the screen. They want to see 'event movies' like 'Kong.' The rest they'll wait for.