Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're beginning to fall behind as a nation in technology. If (the Challenger Center) can stimulate students to become more interested in math, science and technology, we've done our job.

We are proud to be recognized in the magic quadrant report. We believe our listing in the Challenger quadrant confirms our ability to sustain our position in the marketplace. Looking forward, we will continue to position ourselves in the forefront of the industry by delivering superior help desk services.

He is having trouble. You can't be a stealth challenger to an incumbent in a primary and expect to come out on top.

Parthiv Patel

I have been working very hard since the last season, I have done well in the Challenger Series, Irani Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Ranji Trophy games.

It is a great way of communicating at low cost. Web sites level the playing field for a challenger like myself - and they also the opportunity for people to be able to give feedback.

I think we are really going to have to look very carefully at what lessons we didn't learn from Challenger and make sure we absolutely learn them this time.

I was very surprised to be singled out for this honor, ... Hostopia's team members are the real winners, and my partners John Nemanic, Colin Campbell, and Franc Nemanic deserve a huge share of this recognition. We've come a very long way from an upstart challenger in 1999 to the global leader in our business category today. Our team of dedicated staff and management in Toronto, Ft. Lauderdale, and Nikolaev (Ukraine) is the reason for our amazing success.

Mae Jemison

I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

I think it would be difficult for a challenger to use any of that.

She's challenged him unlike any other challenger ever has. There's no question she's exceeded expectations. Could this be a close election?

On an ideological level, Senator Nelson is not in touch with the mainstream of Florida, ... He has voted against tax relief that has been passed by the Republican majority in Congress. He votes to protect the trial lawyers against reform of frivolous lawsuits. We think a Republican challenger is going to do very well if they contrast his record to the Republican positions.

Motorola is putting up a good fight - the only real challenger to Nokia, while the other smaller players are falling behind.

Motorola is putting up a good fight ? the only real challenger to Nokia. But its portfolio hasn't the same attraction as Nokia at the moment.

Obviously I was thrilled to receive such a strong vote of confidence from the party. Particularly since the party has never endorsed a challenger over a Republican supervisor.

Wayne Hale

We were all hoping the Challenger would come out of that cloud of smoke.

David Roth

This is an extraordinary performance for a new challenger going against a four-term incumbent who, by all accounts, should have a much stronger base of individual support going into an election year.

The unparalleled flexibility and superior technology of the original CRJ200 airliner platform continues to generate significant interest in three distinct offerings - as a corporate shuttle, and as a large cabin executive jet, in addition to the market-leading 50-passenger CRJ regional airliner. Challenger 850 aircraft operators are able to take advantage of an outstanding dispatch reliability based on the proven CRJ200 aircraft record, low direct operating costs and an established worldwide support network.

Any challenger to a market where one player holds 80 percent share not only has to build a better mousetrap but improve upon the mouse.

Even in a healthy economy, you have layoffs. The Challenger number is more useful as a story telling device than an indicator.

Even in a healthy economy, you have layoffs, ... The Challenger number is more useful as a story telling device than an indicator.

Ed Rollins

Either we bog down Hillary Clinton in 2006, in New York, or we give Hillary a free pass, let her build up chips around the country by helping other candidates, and walk out of New York with a big win and become unstoppable for 2008. Republicans have to get serious about a challenger to Hillary right now.

Bellamy is a strong guy and he was able to resist the attack. We'll look for the same type of challenger as Ron Bellamy, the same type of fight. We have a lot of offers. We have offers to fight in June or before June.

The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 12/1 - potentially his main challenger

Thomas Doll

We are not the No. 1 challenger for Bayern. People should leave us alone and let us work in peace here.

Seth Shostak

Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.'

Martin Rees

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

Antonin Scalia

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

Henry Petroski

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

This really muddies the waters on jobs, ... I continue to see a lot of labor market distress, and I am more impressed by the sudden weakness in the Challenger report than by the rebound in the cantankerous ISM.

Steve Erickson

Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.

I'll only be disappointed if an incumbent doesn't have a primary challenger or a general election challenger.

Ron Fournier

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.