Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Martin Cohen

We stand with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in this lawsuit, ... The Illinois Commerce Commission does not have the legal authority to order a power auction with unlimited rate hikes as the outcome. The ICC should tell Ameren and ComEd to take their auction proposal to Springfield for review by the General Assembly, which approved a Public Utilities Act that clearly gives Illinois regulators final say over electricity rates.

Kage Baker

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

Bob Horner

The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

Gary Goddard

The regular city auction works very well on particular items, like the bicycles, ... compared to some computer items, some computer stuff that may be of more interest in other areas.

Arne Glimcher

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

Alexis McGee

We also train our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that benefit both the homeowner in distress and the investor. That way the troubled homeowner can sell their way out of foreclosure and conserve some equity for a new start, and the investor can realize a reasonable profit on resale of the home. That's much better than seeing the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Brian Bethune

New auctions will satisfy an unusual coincidence of needs on the supply and demand side of the fixed-income debt markets.

Tim Brady

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

Kent Perkins

We're spread out over two blocks and there's lots of fun things. Some families make this a family reunion event. It's a feel-good kind of thing. There's something for everybody.

Scott Skiles

We responded particularly well tonight. When things didn't go our way, we didn't go into one of our tremendously long droughts and hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse. We picked it up on defense and blocked some shots and got out in the open floor.

Mike Doherty

What they've done here is incredible. They kept the Frank Lloyd Wright facade. And they kept a great number of guest rooms the same. They redid everything, of course, but when they built hotels in 1956 they built big guest rooms. They kept the concrete block and just put in the new retro stuff. Even when I was here the historical society was constantly visiting, wanting to know what we were doing and wanting to make sure we kept the place intact.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Mark Mangino

What he does for our team, he does it better than most guys I've been around at this level. He has a knack for playing that outside-linebacker position. He has a knack for knowing who's supposed to block him, at what angle they're supposed to block him, and he has just a knack for defeating those angles.

Pete Witte

We found out that one address was the source of 200 police calls in one year. That property was public enemy No. 1. When the city went inside, they found an illegal auto repair shop, mattresses in a storage section of the building that had condoms and needles all over them. We got the building emptied out, the city used Community Development Block Grant money to buy it and now it's on the road to demolition. The end of the tunnel is near.

Maryann Mitts

We felt like we had to bring in a scorer, and we really needed somebody who could play both with their back to the basket on the block and could also face at 15 feet and in that could score for us. Latoya is going to give us a very versatile style of scoring.

John Sharper

We bring leadership and we bring experience. We all have been through a lot. We've all been around the block a little bit, and I think that's important to have on a team.

Stephanie Hill

We blocked well in the third game and they weren't able to put the ball through like they were. I thought the big difference was in serving.

Dan Abrams

We've approached a few of the other businesses in this area and had a very positive response,

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.

John Mackey

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Vince Green

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Pat Ivey

We've always felt that this Business 40 effort could be a model for other projects.

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.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

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.

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.

Brian Schneider

We've always said that we were just missing a real small part, and that small part was moving to a new city and having a home. And we got that this year,

Lance Armstrong

We've always had parties or celebrations on that day. It was just a way to do something for a city that has done a lot of things for me. We're basically saying thank you for all the support.

Kelly Leonard

When we were talking to them about the marketing, I said traditional theater marketing never works for us. We need college students, we need young people who wouldn't necessarily go to Denver Center. We get a lot of people at Second City who don't know they're coming to an Actors' Equity theater. A lot of marketing we're doing is promoting Red Scare without the Second City name or the Denver Center name.

Tom Jordan

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

Cory Booker

When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

John Bacon

When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.

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.

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.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Christoph Caselitz

We can deliver the infrastructure as soon as the Chinese government has awarded the licenses to carriers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We can debate over this issue about what to do about the driver's license from here to eternity, ... The bottom line is what we really need to do is work on the problem. What do we do with the undocumented immigrant? What do we do with the people who want to come to the United States? What do we do with employers who need workers from Mexico?

Robert McNamara

We bought products off a man who was licensed to sell them. They're telling me that there were certain products he wasn't able to sell. I only bought products that were advertised for sale to everybody.

Ken Smith

We're going to investigate each one of them. We may put somebody conditionally under a license until they prove that they deserve to continue.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Gary Cooper

We believe that Take-Two overpaid for the license given the lack of exclusivity and relatively small size of the baseball category. The only winners here are the Players Association due to the size of the minimum guarantees, and first-party publishers due to the lack of future competition from EA Sports in the baseball genre.

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.

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

David Kendall

We respectfully object to the committee's broad request for all information concerning all persons who have contributed or pledged more than $5,000 to the foundation. There are serious and substantial legal, precedential and public policy issues raised by this catch-all request.

Richard Costigan

We're somewhat disappointed. We've been working with the Legislature all year on a great policy bill. ... We really worked up until the 11th hour.

Dan McLagan

We're going to see all kind of things going around as people more intent on playing politics than making policy enter the fray.

Marc Levesque

What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the near-term - is a shift in global monetary policy expectations. There's a gearing-down of expectations for Fed tightening, coupled with increased tightening expectations elsewhere.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Bill Reinsch

We would probably say it's a mistake. You get kind of short-term satisfaction on the part of the university, but in the long run, you mostly hurt poor people. ... Basically, there's a negative economic impact on the poorest people, and it doesn't affect government policy or the people running the government.

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.

Paul Jewell

We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him.

Sheryl Crow

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

Dave Morris

When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.

Dan Niles

We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent more PCs in the second half versus the first half. People are getting ready in anticipation of a much stronger second half of the year.

Nigel Harrison

We're going to end up selling the bank at some point,

Buzz Hargrove

What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.

Bill Elliott

When we are selling time-saving products, we can appeal to contractors. But when we sell to homeowners, manufacturers need to advertise to people who will own these homes. We need to plan ahead for product launches. Frequently, manufacturers spring promotions on us with less than 30 days notice.

Mick Jagger

When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets,

Jeff Joerres

When we deliver the service, we've got some just incredible loyalty among our clients. The fact of the matter is, I'm immensely disappointed in our ability to go out and sell the service.