Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Alic

We're monitoring the hurricane and we continue to be in contact with both the Chiefs and Dolphins.

John Howard

We bought it for their space capabilities and the all-wheel-drive feature, especially in New England. The chief was issued that as a take-home vehicle because he is on call 24-7.

Fred Eckhard

United Nations security had a general concern about the secretary general's visit to this region. But in the end, the chief of staff advised the secretary general to make the trip anyway.

Andrew Forman

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

James Jeffords

With the information and sworn testimony on the record it is clear Judge Roberts has the necessary legal experience and character to be the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, ... It also appears that Judge Roberts will use the law and the Constitution to make his judicial decisions, not his ideological or personal beliefs.

Chinua Achebe

A chief does not hurry.

Chief Joseph

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Chester Bowles

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

Charles Bradlaugh

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

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.

Richard Boucher

We've always made clear that we felt that Somalia and the situation that existed there made it a potential haven for terrorists.

Adam Ereli

We've always made clear that truces are good only insofar as they go, and that's really not very far.

Kacey Giammanco

When it became clear that the season was about to be cancelled, I encouraged Meghan to explore CSUMB. Thankfully, that will work out for her, and she will play there this season.

Brenda Davis

When I talk to Mark I have to constantly remind myself that he's just 13. And the Clearly family truly needs this blessing.

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,

Rudi Zeif

We remain hopeful that there are living people among the missing that we can rescue. As we clear the beams we'll send dogs into the rubble to search for them.

Richard Kaplan

We're standing out there for four days, and we're observing some runs that never came and some that were 20 to 50 minutes late, ... That is clearly unacceptable.

Michael Novacek

We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Marshall Cohen

When it becomes the third week, the novelty is going to wear off, but the consumers will still be buying one more item just because of the fact that they're going to be having ... more in their pocket. That one item is going to add up and it is going to benefit the retailer more than the consumer.

Jim Sexton

We're making a b-to-b play out of a very popular consumer brand.

Ian Shepherdson

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Scott Anderson

We're going to see a good bounce back in the first quarter. Solid consumer and business spending will be driving that growth.

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

John Davidson

What they say may have an impact tomorrow, but the dominant topic on investors' minds right now starts with an 'I' and it's not Intel. Both businesses and consumers are hesitant to make any moves until there's progress on Iraq.

Andy Neff

When we downgraded the PC stocks in September, we were concerned about signs of weak consumer demand -- which has continued to deteriorate.

H. Hunt

We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,

Cedric Redmond

When we were going into the locker room at halftime, we heard some fans saying that we're going to fall apart in the second half. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

Phil Mishler

We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.

Don Baylor

We're going to rise or fall as a state together.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Michael Barrett

We're going to need a miracle now to stay in this thing. I believe in those, but it's definitely frustrating realizing how good of a team we have and how we've fallen short.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Scott Johnson

We're more grassroots than the city guys. We're out there with the people trying to solve problems. We're actually out there doing the foot work. We're not being fed the answers.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Malvinder Singh

We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appeals for the federal circuit.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Richard Bernstein

We remain doubtful that the Fed is indeed 'done,' which has become the overwhelming consensus. We believe they will be more vigilant against inflation.

Colin Lundgren

We're getting to levels now where to buy bonds you have to subscribe to the notion that the economy's going to experience a slowdown and the Fed may have to reverse course later in the year. We don't subscribe to that.

Kim Morgan

We're going to go beyond state and federal requirements for air emissions.

Allen Sinai

What we're seeing is aggressive taking out of insurance by the Federal Reserve to make sure we don't have anything like the 1920s or 30s happen.

Kurt Eichenwald

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

Richard White

When I was a kid growing up and my dad owned the drug store, it stopped dead on Labor Day. That was it. People left, and you didn't see them again until Memorial Day. There was no Columbus Day, no Thanksgiving, no New Year's Day. There was none of that.

John Pickett

Tomorrow we've got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Doug Steenland

We remain open to exploring various options to attain the needed labor costs savings but we need to resolve the issue quickly.

Chris Wiegand

We're going to get some weak numbers. The ISM report is going to be weak and that we're in store for a labor report that's weaker than what we've seen over the past four or five months.

Bob Krabbe

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Harley Shaiken

What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.

Tim Graham

We've always kind of made an agreement that our sub-varsity teams wouldn't leave the area. We might go to Shelton or Elma with our C-team, but we won't go to Tacoma.

Eli Juarez

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

Ned Walker

We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

JR Inman

We're going to need a second or third option. Tonight, as far as scoring, yeah, we did leave Quincy.

Gareth Peirce

We've re-emphasized our concerns that this inquiry go from the bottom to the top and leave no stone unturned. It's been a chaotic mess and what we've asked the IPCC to find out is how much of it is incompetence and negligence, including gross negligence, and how much of it may be something more sinister.

Jim Tracy

What we're seeing right now is, in my mind, identical to what we saw last year, when it took him a few starts to get untracked, and then you see one quality start after another. His teammates recognize that's he gonna leave everything that he has on the field, and it's very easy to step up for a guy like that.

Philip Mangano

What we're saying (today) ... Macon is moving forward and we are not going to leave anyone behind.

Bruce Schroeder

What we're really concerned about is we're finding that nearly half the teachers leave in their first five years of teaching.

John Hoeven

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

Ned Walker

We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.

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,

Cyril Beuzit

We're slightly positive on the bond market for now. A rate move is priced in for June but people have given up on the idea of getting anything earlier.

Marios Maratheftis

We're going to see significant sterling weakness this year. Although the Bank of England is on hold for now the pressure is building for rate cuts in the second half of the year.

John Kosar

We're going to see a new, emerging period of higher long-term interest rates that are going to start now, and I believe they're going to carry on for some time.

Kenneth Fisher

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

John Kosar

We're going to see a new, emerging period of higher long-term interest rates that are going to start now, and I believe they're going to carry on for some time.

Kenneth Fisher

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Douglas Cliggott

What we're seeing in Asia now is that rates of growth are slowing down. It's Latin America where you see growth picking up.

Michael Conway

Whenever rates go up a little bit, some people aren't going to qualify. But buyers are better off because of the balanced market. That helps them more than slightly higher rates hurt them.

Doug Porter

What has changed in recent weeks is long-term interest rates across the globe are starting to feel the heat from Fed tightening and now from rate hikes from all kinds of quarters, including Japan and Europe which they really hadn't had to deal with before.

Samah Haggag

We found it interesting that some states that historically have low rates of bankruptcy have high propensities. I think some of it's going to be related to the economic changes. For states to see that kind of difference, some things have changed.

Robert Long

We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you think if the Fed is hinting that interest rates will go up sooner, that suggests the economy is doing well? I think the comments bode well for the GDP (gross domestic product) report tomorrow and next week's monthly employment report.

Andy Ellis

We believe we have the tools in place to stay on top these metrics going forward. We are starting the next phase of our service and quality initiative, which is focused on delivering faster project completion rates while maintaining our high quality standards.

Jan Freitag

What's noteworthy is the rates did not fall when the demand dropped after 9/11. So hotels are now in a great position to grow the rates moving forward.

David Carr

We've always had signs of being explosive, but we've never kept it up. If we can be consistently explosive it would be great.

Bill Brennan

We remain concerned for the health of the public, and again urge people to heed the signs the city posted warning them to stay out of waters that may be contaminated.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Bruce Kasman

What we're seeing in the report is clear signs that manufacturing has turned. And I think it's turned pretty sharply.

Andy Neff

When we downgraded the PC stocks in September, we were concerned about signs of weak consumer demand -- which has continued to deteriorate.

Andrew Neff

When we downgraded the PC stocks in September, we were concerned about signs in the weak consumer demand -- which has continued to deteriorate. Now we are seeing signs of this weakness spreading into small/medium corporate and of aggressive pricing in low-end servers. This weakness is bound to spread.

Matt Cavanaugh

We are getting closer every day, we really are. We're going to need every day because we have a ways to go, but I am seeing some signs that they are starting to think like one. They've made strides the last few days and they are starting to take a lot of pride in what they do, so we're on our way.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Nancy Wood

We remove all illegal sign encroachments as we are made aware of them. That also includes signs posted on telephone poles, since most poles are on right-of-way.

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

Mariano Rivera

Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.

Jim Wicklund

We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.

Larry Brown

We're going to shut him down a little bit. Hopefully, he'll be back at the beginning of next week and we'll know a little bit more. Hopefully he'll be ready to play. If not we'll worry about that then.

Tanya Chaplin

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

Eric Draper

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.

Dana Addis

What a blessing it is for a coach to have guys like Andrew and Horton. We don't have to worry about them when they're on the floor.

Steven Chercover

We would really need for the DOD to quantify the demand to assess whether prices for wood could rise in the market as a result. I don't think the consumer has something to worry about right now.

Mary Matalin

What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.