Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Merz

Attorney General Madigan is concerned that oil companies can make billions in profits and not provide oil at a reasonable price.

Michael Healey

Attorney General Lynch is pleased by this turn of events. We look forward to the jury getting the case and reaching a resolution that the people of Rhode Island deserve.

Charles Grassley

probably the Securities and Exchange Commission and the attorney general should have been on top of, but aren't.

Michael Bryant

Normally it wouldn't be a good thing for an attorney general to have a professional defamer as a brother-in-law. But I am so delighted for him. He is a great Canadian success story.

Tom DeLay

Any partisan crackpot district attorney who might want to indict a member of our leadership.

Samuel Alito

The things that I said in the 1985 memo were a true expression of my views at the time from my vantage point as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office. But that was 20 years ago and a great deal has happened in the case law since then.

Henry Hyde

A decision whether to hold hearings will be based on the information developed during this review. I am hopeful that the attorney general will cooperate fully by making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee,

Mary Williams

Nowhere did Congress say that they wanted to make that kind of transformation of power from the states regulating medical practice to the U.S. Attorney General regulating medical practice,

Maurice Carroll

Running for attorney general, she loses more respectably, but she still loses. This is not great news for Pirro, but she still runs better in a race she insists she is not running.

Louie Schwartzberg

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Tim Bray

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Seth Shostak

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

Matt Yates

Cruise and containers can happily coexist. The container port is a vibrant and essential component of Brooklyn's varied waterfront. By bringing both aesthetics and billions of dollars in economic activity, it provides Brooklyn with a worthwhile use for her storied piers, and brings much-needed wealth to our local economy.

Richard Lamm

We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.

Lucy McFadden

Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.

Cullen Sheehan

Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, while governor of Virginia he supported raising billions of dollars in taxes time and time again.

George Bell

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars,

James Davis

As energy prices stay high, there's savings to be had by looking at your energy infrastructure. Most companies haven't.

Luigi Speranza

As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases the probability of greater pass-through of past oil shocks to non-energy prices.

Ibrahim Rugova

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

John Nelson

As analysts, we know that there are these smoking and health issues, ... but it is always reassuring to hear from the company that irrespective of what is going on, (it is) doing well enough that (it) can raise the dividend 20 percent. Not many companies can do that.

Todd Johnson

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Mamoru Yamazaki

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don't have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Tom Browning

As companies get bigger, they are looking for efficiencies, they pare down internal resources and they get less personal with their consumers.

Colin Morton

As a shareholder you get nervous when companies say they are looking at the U.S., because historically, UK firms haven't made a good fist of it over there.

Susanna Phillips

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

Shane Richardson

As far as we are concerned 'Mad Monday' doesn't exist,

So Taguchi

As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want to establish myself as a regular in the team.

Nick Fazekas

As far as I'm concerned I don't feel we've won the thing yet. We talk about sharing the title. We don't want to have to share the title with anyone.

Felipe Alou

As far as I'm concerned he's playing (tonight). (But) everybody wants him to play in the home opener. At this hour, I really don't know. My plan was not to play him (tonight) and play him in the (home) opener and go from there.

Milan Mandaric

As far as I'm concerned he'll never die... he's been a very special friend and a very special man.

Alan Curbishley

As far as I'm concerned Darren has just got to keep in Eriksson's face. I don't mean by scoring every week or getting to 20 goals, he just has to perform well and try to improve his game. There are going to be games when he isn't going to score so he has to contribute more in other ways. If he can do that it is only going to enhance his position.

Arthur Williams

As far as I am concerned he is still a member. He hasn't resigned.

Jimmy Carter

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country,

David Blunkett

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Alvaro Soto

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.