Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Dick

We're spending the money the district approved four years ago. I have not enough fields and too many teams,

Ray Walsh

We're going to have information on how people can develop a team and we will tell them what their responsibilities are. It's just getting started right now. I'm glad that the school has approved it.

Tony Ridder

unless and until its board of directors has approved a specific transaction.

Jean Medina

United fully complied with the solicitation and tabulation procedures, which were approved by the bankruptcy court.

Bob Kelley

Usually if a Planning Commission is on board and their recommendations are incorporated into the plan, it's somewhat unusual to not have it approved by the council.

James Saxton

We appear to be heading out of BRACC with quite a few more aircraft and people that we had heading into it. If approved by the president and Congress, this can only be viewed as an expansion of the missions to be conducted out of the new joint base in the future.

Steven Milunovich

We believe that the accounting seems to proper and the company reports that it has been reviewed and approved by its auditors.

Michael Morris

We believe that Microsoft's ultimate goal is nothing less than to establish Microsoft-controlled choke-points to Internet access so that Internet access is available using only products made by or approved by Microsoft,

Steven Galson

There are dangers to consumers who purchase diet pills that contain drugs of unknown origin and quality. These products are not approved by the FDA and if people experience side effects, it is difficult to trace problems and for physicians to treat them.

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.

Kelsey Lavender

We've always had that problem. Throughout the year, that's what we've been fighting. We've tried to cut down on turnovers and, obviously, we didn't do that once again.

Wale

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

Allison Baver

When I was in fourth grade, my family, we used to always go to the roller skating rink. There was this cute boy there that I liked. It kind of influenced me to keep going.

Ken Henderson

We're making less money now than we did 30 years ago. If they have to pay more, they're going to have to cut back somewhere else.

Edward Norton

We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?

Gerry Fleming

We're getting too cute, too fancy (with passes). That's what happens when you got new guys coming into the lineup that are skilled players playing with guys who are skilled players. Everybody wants to show off and show how great they are and how fancy they can make things happen. As a result, we turned the puck over and we all looked like we had no idea what we were doing.

Ray Smutko

We're going to stick a tree trunk in the ground, with about 6 feet sticking out. The Gatlin gun operator will spray across it several times and try to cut it in half.

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.

Hilly Kristal

We're going to fight. We deserve to be here. If they padlock the club, we're going to cut the locks.

Dr. Hsia

We feel that our data are completely consistent with the current American Heart Association guidelines and the current FDA guidance to use the lowest possible dose for the shortest possible duration.

David Kennedy

Until the doses of mercury that we've measured are shown to be safe and that's not going to happen then they should stop using the material.

Kurt Bills

We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

Martha Hill

Women should also talk to their doctors about hormone replacement therapyonce they reach menopause, ... We should have more information inseveral years about different doses and hormone combinations, so a woman'sregimen can be more tailor-made.

Martha Hill

Women should also talk to their doctors about hormone replacement therapy once they reach menopause, ... We should have more information in several years about different doses and hormone combinations, so a woman's regimen can be more tailor-made.

Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

John Cameron

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

Thomas Pogge

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.

Helen Hayes

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee

Vicente Fox

When it comes down to it, for Mexico, the FTAA means being able to go forward toward development, in the fight against poverty, in job creation and economic growth,

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.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

John Hughs

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. You're seeing that today, ... There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy and about the change in Bush's economic team. We're also coming off a period where the Dow rose for 8 weeks and so you're seeing a little pullback. You saw it last week and I think it's continuing.

Lara Rhame

We're getting to a phase where European data could have more of an impact because a solid U.S. economic scenario is so widely expected. The markets are also very thin, so traders aren't taking on large amounts of risk.

Sung Sohn

We're going to get an economic boost from not only production, but from inventory buildup during the current quarter, and probably for the balance of this year.

Kent Beck

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

Ricardo Sanchez

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty,

Dean Baker

We've backed ourselves into a very dangerous situation. The economy is dependent on everyone consuming like crazy. If everyone heard my diatribe and said, 'Yeah, we better start saving,' the economy would go into a recession.

Amy Baker

We remain optimistic that the strength of Florida's economy is going to carry us through any worst-case scenario.

John Hughs

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. You're seeing that today, ... There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy and about the change in Bush's economic team. We're also coming off a period where the Dow rose for 8 weeks and so you're seeing a little pullback. You saw it last week and I think it's continuing.

Ned Riley

We're going to see more of the same for the next few weeks, unless something comes in that indicates a pick-up in activity in the economy or on the corporate level,

James Smith

We're going to get to a number like 3.8 percent in the next four months. Jobs are plentiful and easy to get. The economy is strong, no two ways about it.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Kathleen Parker

It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

Kate Warne

What we're seeing today is a combination of lower oil prices and concern about the strength of the economy in the second quarter.

Jason Schenker

What we're seeing is a lot stronger numbers than were anticipated, also with an upward revision in August and July. All of this bodes well for the economy and shows perhaps the economy was not as severely affected by the hurricanes as initially anticipated.

Bob Davis

We've always had a focus as a company on bottom line and fiscal responsibility, ... And I think especially now in the days of Internet consolidation and I think more of a discriminating investor, it pays off very well for us.

Ralph Norris

We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.

Edgar Bronfman

We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.

Bruce Wood

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

Fred Lane

What we're looking for is someone with a combination of fiscal awareness and educational vision. We're looking for someone who, first and foremost, is going to be a good manager for what is essentially a $50 million business that is providing for the education of an entire generation.

Frank DeRosa

We were supporting schools that were not doing well at all. This has helped a great deal. We are committed to educating these students, and we must have fiscal stability and viability to do so.

Darren Jackson

We grew earnings per diluted share by 85 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, so it represents the most difficult earnings comparison for the coming year.

Chris Whitmore

We believe today's announcement sets the stage for further share gains by Apple. Our estimates suggest that each point of share Apple takes in the overall personal computer (PC) market translates into a positive 25 cents per share to our fiscal year estimates.

Sung Sohn

What's lacking is confidence, so businesses aren't spending the money they have, ... That's why I don't necessarily think it takes a huge fiscal stimulus package to get the economy moving.

Steve Bailey

We're making a request to the DA to return the medicine to those authorized to possess it.

Debbie Stabenow

We believe we need to tackle this problem with the same sense of urgency felt by our seniors who are forced to choose between medicine and food.

Rod Blagojevich

We're just not going to sit back and continue to allow the big, powerful pharmaceutical industry to price gouge the senior citizens and working people of our state. People should be able to afford the medicine they need and they should be able to get the best price they can for it.

Frederick Saunders

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Alan Bennett

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

Al Lewis

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Chico Hamilton

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Chester Brown

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

Jay Jacobs

We've asked the facilities division to give us some information, what they think is reasonable that we could expect this to cost.

Paul Johnston

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

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Rivers Cuomo

When we were putting the album together and finishing up the artwork, I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and I told everyone that. I told them, 'Let's commit to this year, and see what happens,' ... And that was one of the reasons why I put that quote in there, because I thought it's a really nice way to say goodbye, if it is a goodbye.

Edmund White

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Flip Saunders

Tony is a high-energy guy, and that's one of the reasons that when he became available, he was somebody we really wanted to look at. We thought he gave us a different dimension from what we had on the roster.

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.

Dennis Gartman

We remain fundamentally bullish on gold . . . for the very simple reason that there is growing disdain for currencies generally.

John Cornyn

What this does is serve our national interest from the standpoint of increased security. It deals with our economic needs in terms of the work, but it also, I think, helps to address some of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging people to return with the savings and skills they've acquired in the United States.

Michael Schinler

We're going to look at it from a less theoretical standpoint and more from a common sense, everyday type of view. We're going to mix both views.

Andy Reid

We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

Kevin Colbert

We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference.

Lindy Ruff

This was as good a game as I've seen us put together from an offensive standpoint and defensive standpoint.

Bill Gross

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

H. Hart

Three years ago, Tim was a candidate and did a real god job. Everyone on the search committee was real impressed with him. It just wasn't going to work from a time and commitment standpoint due to his high school duties.

Charlie Hickey

When you?re up 9-0 it?s supposed to be easy. But things are rarely easy in college baseball, and from that standpoint I was pleased with the way we came back.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

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.

Melindo Persi

We're spending at a level not supported by the tax base.

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.

Stephanie Contreras

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

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.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Tyson Slocum

What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.

Martin Bates

What this bill does in its heart is allow one group of people to affect education and taxes of other people without their input.

Steny Hoyer

What they have proposed will not offset Katrina. It will offset their tax cuts,

Debra Gill

We've always been the kind of people who like to help others. Now, it has been just one thing after another, but we know there are people still doing worse than we are.

Alex Pareene

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

Cindy Sheehan

We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Garry Houston

What a day. I was a bit disgusted coming off the 17th, but the lob wedge on the last spun back nicely and went in. There is no way I can play worse tomorrow than I did today. I felt like an eight-year-old again.

Charles Barron

What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow.

John Triplett

We found out we won't have Marianne and that her eye has gotten worse since she got here.

Kriss Costa

We believe this year will be worse because the virus is already established. Last year, Sacramento was hit hard, and now Santa Clara County has the most infected birds in the state so far.

Carl Neill

What's really driving us here is continued concern about how much damage has been done by either Rita or Katrina. It looks like things are a little worse than originally assumed, and things aren't coming back on line as quickly as thought.

Todd Hays

Unfortunately it didn't go as I'd hoped. But fortunately I know there's a lot worse things in life than not finishing the Olympic Games with a medal.