Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Archer

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Franco Modigliani

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

Peter Orszag

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Terry Gilliam

I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Nancy Gibbs

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Adrian McKinty

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

Jalal Rumi

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.

Harold Schaitberger

The administration has dragged its feet. We have people who have been waiting for months. This is ridiculous.

O. J. Simpson

Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexually assaulted,

Virgil

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Dave Walla

That was Roberson's fifth foul. Instead, she stays in, and they're shooting free throws.

James Mansinger

We just didn't pitch in the second game. The big inning killed us again. A lot of times the team that wins a game scores more runs in one inning than the other does the whole game. They scored six in the fifth inning, and we scored six on the day.

John Fields

We just didn't get any help. When your fifth man is shooting 241, and you've got an 84, you really have no help and the other four guys have no insurance there.

Charlie Bell

We can still get that fifth spot. This is a game that can turn around our whole season.

Mark Pickle

With the way Steven Dodson is throwing, we're just trying to get to the fifth inning with the lead. For whatever reason, he's taken to that role and run with it.

James Matthew

Most folks don't realize it, but the FFA organization represents a little over one fifth of the students at Huntsville High School and is ranked fifth in size in the state,

Stephen Lewis

We have one girl, Nadia Underwood, who just went for her fifth shoot in Japan. She's only 17 and she's already made $250,000.

Greg Cronin

You just can't give up a short-handed goal with 10 minutes to go in the game. That fifth goal just killed us.

Mike Easley

I'm in my fifth year (as governor), and I feel like I spent all five working on Dell,

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Lynn Reaser

Today was a relief rally; it was an oil price relief story,

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

Jeffrey Rubin

We'll get there on the back of rising oil prices.

Mike Erfert

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Pat Summitt

I think overall Candace had a solid game, ... I was pleased with her defense.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Jan Dijkwel

I think it's an overall educational experience. We are now in a society where everything is communicated on a two-dimensional platform, like the big screen, television and even reading.

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

Jenny Holzer

Any surplus is immoral.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.