Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Donald Berwick

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

Nina Easton

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Brad Durham

The 27-week inflow streak into Japan equity funds ended this week as accounting irregularities at an Internet company and a systems failure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange shook investor confidence.

Ron Ryan

The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.

Norihiro Fujito

The accounting problems in the U.S. seem to have crossed a significant hurdle on Wednesday, and the external pressures on the Japanese market in general have probably peaked.

David Healy

The accounting charges seem to be mostly timing -- instead of earning in one period they have to state them in another period.

J. M. Roberts

The answer is there was a shift, not a drop, in demand. Chinese shipments of computers were up more than 20 percent nationally, but fell almost 60 percent in Laredo, more than accounting for the drop in overall Chinese imports.

Peter Shaw

Most cases concern immigration attorneys who have a client in our court, and our court finds that no briefs are filed, or a review reflects that they are perfunctory.

Cathy Kelly

Most public defenders have more trials under their belt in five years than civil attorneys have in 20 years.

Henry Eng

We aren't making any public comments because of pending litigation and are waiting to hear from our attorneys about what we can and can't do.

Nancy Mathis

We have attorneys working on it, and we're trying to get it out as quickly as possible.

Charles Ruff

We are disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision not to review the D.C. Circuit's ruling that government officials do not have the right to have confidential communications with government attorneys about official business,

Walter Johnson

I was expecting a big increase for a long time, but it just happened right now. I don't know many attorneys who are taking filings. I can't take any more.

John Wooden

It doesn't make any difference what they go on to, it's a great feeling to see them doing well. I'm just as proud of the ministers and the doctors and the attorneys and the businessmen n every one of 'em.

Jason Morris

We find attorneys who aren't attorneys and nurses who aren't nurses. People just aren't truthful on their resumes.

Kit Williams

hundred of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees.

George Rodriguez

We have to watch out for the mom-and-pop stores. They did not move out, they did not capitulate. They served the clients in the area.

Rick Greene

Typically, hospital clients just don't have the internal resources. They don't have the depth of resources on staff, so it's a natural evolution to go to an outside source for that.

Paul Otellini

We've known for a decade, since Intel was involved in the Desktop Management Task Force, that desktop clients need better security and better management visibility.

Terry Trippler

We have clients who are very finicky about their seats. I think they'll pay that extra $15.

Tony Perez

We have clients on the home side that have five or six computers with the sort of equipment you'd see in a small business,

Paul Downes

My clients are fighting for their lives in the port of Miami, and the losses they will suffer are very substantial indeed.

David Kock

My client keeps on saying he is not guilty.

Richard Katz

My client . . . is extremely upset and offended at the personal affronts contained in the letter directed not only at him but also at his players.

James Rubin

My client is entitled to a presumption of innocence at this point.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Peter Guralnick

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

Steve Smith

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Eddie Fierek

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

John Silvia

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

Buddha

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

John Macdonald

We are obviously disappointed. But we're very pleased as to the (acquittal of) fraud charges.

Glenn Jennings

We hope the word is getting out that insurance fraud will not be tolerated in Kentucky.

David Boies

I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

John Payne

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

Bernard Ebbers

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Bonnie Campbell

My perspective on this lawsuit is that it's just wrong.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Brian Foster

No lawsuit has been filed, but we're considering all options,

Joe Faraldo

Is there something that says, Thou shall not use (the management's) method of testing'? No, but that's what this lawsuit is about.

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

Nancy Grace

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

Reid Scott

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

Bonni Retzkin

I thought it was great. You saw it.

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.