Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Miller

He is the comrade around whom the party people can coalesce. He should be chairman for life.

Edward Leamer

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

Allen Sinai

I think that Greenspan will rank as one of the most effective and innovative Fed chairman that we have had -- a home-run champion.

Marion Hammer

I think the chairman is telling us where he intends to go, to put it politely.

John Silvia

Labor costs were one of the key inflation concerns cited by Chairman (Alan) Greenspan in his latest testimony, ... Our outlook reinforces his concern.

John Davidson

To get a real turnaround you need to have a turnaround in earnings. The jobless claims number today probably keeps (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan on task in terms of lowering rates.

Inzamam-ul Inzamam-ul

I did say that I would not go but after being convinced by the chairman that my participation is necessary for the better image of the country, I have decided to tour Australia,

Foster Friess

I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

Nell Minow

He is not the chairman of a public corporation. He doesn't create shareholder value. He is essentially a regulator, and he is running an unregulated monopoly in a way.

Bob Horodyski

He's always good for between 16 and 20 points, 10 to 15 rebounds, a couple of charges drawn and a couple of steals in the post. Every time out.

Marcus Dudley

I think the charges are appropriate for what his involvement was in the accident.

Thomas Ken

We talked about taking charges when she spins. Finally it happened at the perfect point in the game.

Christopher Clarke

Consumers' sensitivity to APR levels and other charges is low,

Tom Sneddon

We are not going into the facts of the case, ... The charges speak for themselves.

Mitchell Ribitwer

This involves multiple charges and courts and at this time we have no comment.

Jim Hall

It is unfortunate that a small number of people, pursuing their own agendas, have persisted in making unfounded charges of a government cover-up in this investigation, ... These people do a grievous injustice to the many dedicated individuals, civilian and military, who have been involved in this investigation.

David Dreman

There's a lot of serious charges without a lot of fact. The fact may be there. But we haven't seen it.

Richard Dicker

It was clear that Slobodan Milosevic was not conducting a legal defense to the charges he was facing.

Keith Baird

has always been a kind of clearing house for power and influence in Italian finance and business. It's a place where things happen, if you like.

Marcus Williams

In this kind of game, Jeff always comes through. He's a man-child out there. He was clearing the glass, moving his way through the paint, getting buckets. That's normal. That's what I see all of the time.

Mike Jacobs

The hope for me is to try and create a clearing ground, where rather than just go back with two players from this trip, I'll be able to identify players that I can pull every year.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Alexander Cockburn

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Tom Birchard

Friday night into early Saturday, we expect things to start clearing up.

Ray Barrett

If it comes in that you're dead, we put you in the computer and pull your card. We've been going a step further. There's a Social Security Web site you can get on and double-check. We've been clearing up a lot.

Ed Michaels

If they want me there (Friday), I'll be there. I'll honor my job and start clearing out my office and we'll go from there.

Cris Williamson

I didn't set out to be an icon, to save the lesbians of the world. But women were hungry. We were starving for someone who talked about what we were thinking and feeling. And somehow I stumbled into a clearing -- here are some things I found that maybe would be useful -- and I flew them out like model airplanes.

Richard Grenell

Last night and his morning, the human rights commission reform fell apart.

Kolawole Olaniyan

It is not enough for the Nigerian government to initiate an investigation. We need an international commission of inquiry that will report directly to the UN Secretary-General and make its findings public.

Jonathan Todd

It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Mayor Mulder

I don't expect this commission to revisit every issue that we decide because there are few people that are upset. I think it needs to be re-addressed, but we need to make some sort of decision and stick with it.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Charles Grassley

I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,

Raymond Bunn

I just want to be part of a fair and impartial commission board.

Gerhard Schroeder

It has been a very open and friendly exchange of opinions.

Kaoru Yosano

It is imperative to get operations at the Tokyo Stock Exchange back to normal as soon as possible for the sake of the Japanese economy.

Elna Moolman

The rand weakened during February, which is expected to have limited the Bank's accumulation of foreign exchange reserves during the month.

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

William Sullivan

In our judgment, the risk is the yen will lose ground in the world foreign exchange market.

Jim McCormick

In the short term, this is probably not that significant. But it does indicate that they are putting all the pieces in place to have a more flexible exchange rate." ()

Gary Katz

The first exchange in 27 years, I think that's a wonderful thing for the SEC. For us, it's everything we have been waiting for.

Gary Katz

The first exchange in 27 years, I think that's a wonderful thing for the SEC, ... For us, it's everything we have been waiting for.

Masahiro Kawai

The individual exchange rates won't be supported officially...but if this index is relatively stable vis-a-vis external currencies then it's quite useful.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Andre Previn

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

Anna Kournikova

Notice how I didn't say our former USA colleague.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Doug Justice

Bilbo's a former quarterback and I've seen what he can do over the years. He's a special player. They've got great athletes. You can get hit with Daniels and Johnson and then they come with Bilbo. They've got a multi-headed attack.

Kyle Petty

I never thought I had to live up to Richard Petty, ... I never had to live up to anything but what I expected.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Alan Sugar

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.

Michael Watson

the securities that were deposited ... were essentially of no value.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

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Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.

Jennifer Miller

At first it was very nerve-wracking but we settled down and it was such a blast.

Ray Willis

We just had to get a rhythm. They settled themselves down.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Larry Brown

We kind of got healthy. That was a key. Since we got healthy, we've settled on a rotation. That's been helpful.

Blaine Taylor

Our commissioner has been walking around with a smile. How many other conferences have two teams still playing?

Paul Ratanasiripong

You could see the smile. You did something and they're improving.

Seimone Augustus

It was her smile. It was the teacher she was, but also the person she was.

William Shakespeare

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief

Kevin Appier

They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.

Keith Urban

You look at me and give me that 'come here baby' smile. And I know we can make it through anything.

Anne Byrn

When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile.