Jim Wright Quotations

One of the challenges with unmanned vehicles is how do you manage it and control it to make sure it does what you want it to do?

We're encouraged by the fact that although Italy and Germany are worse than expectations, that impact is more than offset by the U.S. and the emerging markets.

Our concern is if the Santa Anas subside, this fire could turn into a topography-driven fire and race uphill into mountain communities. So we're really concentrating a lot of fire suppression efforts on the northern perimeter of this Old Fire to keep it down,

We see many opportunities to expand into new markets and further penetrate our existing footprint, and are on track to reach our long-term target of at least 1,300 Tractor Supply locations nationwide.

The markets will be reassured that the company does not view this as the cyclical peak and the stock split and dividend show that they are doing a lot for shareholders.

I think there will be extreme disappointment that they are asking for another 18 months minimum to fix Japan.

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

For one thing, it's not hauling luggage on and off. On a cruise, the hotel room comes with you.

Larry had high blood pressure and some heart issues in the past. His family was aware of it, and he had to go for a more complete physical before playing basketball. But the doctors didn't realize he had an enlarged heart when they cleared him to play. His parents didn't know, and the school sure didn't know.