Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

E. B. White

I need you to establish the selection criteria, provide minimum qualification, salary range, number of candidates and approval of the application form.

Jack Pitney

If the president's approval numbers go up, he'll have a better chance of getting his way. The president retains a lot of power, and there's a chance his numbers could rebound.

George Thomas

If our competitors want to do the same things, they really have to become payment system operators. They'd have to integrate it in-house and then get approval from the Fed to do settlement, and that's a big step.

Clay Richards

If voters are in a Florio anti-tax mood, his approval rating will suffer. If he's able to convince them that tax increases are necessary to maintain state services they want, then his approval rating, while not going up sharply, should not be too badly damaged.

Bob Stoops

I know everybody thinks I've got the final veto and/or approval of somebody, and I guess I do, ... But he and (linebacker) Clint Ingram by far and away had all the votes. That tells you that guys who are working with him every day believe in him, too.

Shaw Friedman

If LaPorte County had not intervened, this was on the fast track to approval. We raised important questions and were glad others came to have what I would call grave concerns about the contract.

Rebecca Wiggins

If Mr. Warren and Mr. Hodge run a facility with six or fewer occupants, they don't have to have a license. However, they're in a residential zone. And in that particular zone, to do anything like they are doing, they would have to have special exception approval from council. So, they are kind of messed up right there. Also if they have more than six residents, they need to be regulated by the state of Georgia, by the Office of Regulatory Services. But they can't really stay in their present location and get a license for anything.

John Williams

Incumbent on the city's approval of the campus plan, we believe it's possible to bring everything together in one place.

Sean Casey

Just watching my teammates on TV, how close they're coming and not getting results ... it hurts a lot. I'm there on the couch, the game is close and they need a big hit, and I'm, like, 'Jeez, let me get out there.' I want so badly to be part of it again.

Barry Alvarez

He wants to be on the field so badly and earned the starting spot and just doesn't want to give it up. (He) plays the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Mark Shapiro

He wants to be here and wants to be a part of it. He wants so badly to be a big part of our future, as well as our present. If he can do what he did in the second half over the course of a whole year, he'll be more than enough.

Tom Renney

He wants badly to win. He wants everyone to enjoy something very special with his help. Not thanks to him, but certainly with his help. I think that really motivates him. He takes this very seriously.

Chuck D.

There are so many holes in the harbor. There's not a site that's not badly injured.

Eric Burns

He's a leader who doesn't like reporters. I don't know that there's anything about this that reflects badly on his leadership abilities, but I think there's something about this that reflects badly on decision-making, and decision-making is part of leadership.

Jodi Korbas

It comes from our seniors having been in the program for four years. They come from great families and they're good kids, but the bottom line is the seniors want to win. When you have a group that wants to win as badly as they do, it's contagious.

Mark Turgeon

Last year I think we wanted to be part of the NCAA Tournament so badly we didn't worry about the things that we could control, which is making our team better. That's what we're doing this year.

Tom Stevens

I watched one installment and really, honestly, have nothing but sympathy for the guy. He's got so much on his plate right now. It's largely of his doing, but still. When he tears up, you can't help but feel badly for him.

Steve Saviano

(Kevin) is going to be a good goalie. I'm convinced of it. He's a big prospect for Carolina.

Roger King

Knowledge is king, and if you're knowledgeable about a market, the general manager listens to you, and that really is what convinces them to stay with my television shows.

Conrad DeQuadros

I would say that the reports we've had on the labor market over the past three months are more than enough to convince us that the recovery in the labor market is truly in place,

Ozzie Guillen

He convinced me he was ready to go. We need this kid. ... Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

Julian Kurtz

The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We are going to sue you' - that got their attention. I've found that virtually nobody wants to obey the law and that nobody wants to enforce the law.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

John Naughton

We're pretty much convinced it's not a rogue shark or a shark out there -- one shark that's doing all the damage.

David Clohessy

We suspect there are many more. We're convinced it's just a matter of time before it happens again.

Nick Spano

I think we need a strong New Yorker to head the ticket, ... hasn't convinced me he is the right person.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Bob Stoops

If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Andy Roberts

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Bill Nelson

And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5 percent a year increases are not going to get us to the moon.

Rick Santelli

Every October there's always increases or drop-offs, and I think this year will be no exception.

Chris Viale

They are shocked by the increases (in monthly payments) they are getting.

Avivah Litan

There will be more security holes. In the end, it increases the risks not decreases them.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Joe McCormick

We maintain that our rates are competitive and reasonable and appropriate for the risk in Texas." ()

Randy McClure

We made some adjustments and put more pressure on the ball. The big thing was to maintain what we were doing and we did." ()

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Jacques Chirac

This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,

Robert Creeley

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Zach Braff

The only women I publicly date are those who have a higher IMDB rating than me.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Scott Sprinzen

We haven't factored anything into the rating (but) it's worth monitoring closely. It's a big unknown.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Dan Levitan

In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Sundar Pichai

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Kent Conrad

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

Joshua Slocum

No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Nelson Mandela

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

Mike Huckabee

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.