S. Hughes Seen Quotations

I have been excited by what I have seen of David,

We are responding to feedback that we have received from large-enterprise customers. We are continuing to assess the demand from our small-business customers. But we haven't seen that demand so far.

There has long been speculation that working folks whose co-payments or share-of-cost keep rising, may decide to take the risk and opt out of medical coverage, ... I haven't seen actual numbers of people dis-enrolling from insurance, but the scenario is logical.

There is a connection between education and the economy, but it's seen more clearly with short-term programs.

We have seen total deregulation in Victoria, they haven't looked back; and total deregulation this year in NSW for barley, canola and sorghum. That has occurred without a hitch.

Every time I've seen the bats, it's been from the bridge. It's kind of neat to see them from the water.

I've never seen a lot of difference from what customers order on New Year's from the rest of the year, really.

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

I've got players with lumps as well but I'm not going to stand here and defend something I can't really pass comment on until I've seen the pictures and spoken to the boy.

Oil's a tricky thing, where we've seen pullbacks in the price and the market doesn't respond, but when you see a rally, stocks fall, ... Oil is clearly the excuse today for the selling.

On a very short-term basis, you got a little oversold last week, and on a technical level, this is a pretty good place to get a bounce. In the greater scheme of things, last week's movement was significant, in that it was a stronger wave of selling than we've seen in a while.