Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Michael Metz

He is very well respected, and he would be confirmed quite easily.

Diane Forden

For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade .

Syd Kitson

It confirmed people are looking for a community. A safe neighborhood where there are a lot of eyes on the kids.

Prakash Javadekar

We can confirm that the trip has been cancelled.

Dick Thompson

We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

Shinobu Asagoe

I thought the (seventh) game was finished and when I askedthe umpire, she confirmed it, ... Then they started counting the points and nobody could rememberthe third one, so in the end it looked like it was all my fault.

Phil Garner

He'll go back there just to confirm this is a tweak.

Michael Klawitter

On the U.S. data front we did not get very reassuring numbers. To confirm market expectations in respect of Federal Reserve tightening this year, we need significantly stronger numbers.

George Hodgson

I would sign up for the view that industrial, 'old economy' stocks could well be the next to move higher. But I don't see a definitive move until we see some of the economic data in July.

Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

Jim Zeigler

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that.

George V. Higgins

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Dean Stanley

Having seen all the data for May, our sense is the Fed won't be raising rates in two weeks but that doesn't mean they won't be tightening rates later this summer,

Jun Kitazawa

I think the dollar will try the upside if the data are good, but I don't think it will find momentum.

Ethan Harris

It is gradual step towards a little more flexibility. Inflation, the economy and the markets will dictate how much further they go. They say the economy is strong and that inflation risks are tilted a little to the upside. There is nothing yet in the data that will stop the Fed.

Bill Groenveld

I think technically (Monday's increase) could be sound, as long as we don't get any economic surprises. The data should support this level.

Carl Riccadonna

I think we're going to see a worsening in the inflation data and that's going to keep the Fed on a tightening track.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

Glenn Walters

Josiah wrestled you down in front of your children, upsetting them to the point that they started to cry.

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

David Small

I think it brightens the spotlight on recycling as an issue in front of the General Assembly. It also recognizes that these things take time.

Marty Reasoner

It can be tough getting out of the way when you're standing in front of the net.

Linda Greene

He was a good kid, and he had a great future in front of him.

Paul Ford

He's a force. I got a front row seat on-deck.

Chris Ault

He's as good a back as you could recruit as a freshman... If he gets out in front of you, he'll get to the end zone.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

John Nelson

I think that there's been an unspoken sentiment in the market that this is not the time to be speculating,

Terry Stotts

It was a competitive scrimmage. We still have a long way to go, but it's reassuring that the work we did this week is showing up a little bit.

Dick Cavett

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

Apjit Walia

The most reassuring thing is they are seeing very strong demand,

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.

Robert Reich

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

Rod Stewart

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

William Strunk, Jr.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

William Strunk, Jr.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Rick Warren

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Wendell Phillips

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Joseph Altuzarra

You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.

Joni Eareckson Tada

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

Taylor Chace

It was pretty emotional, but it made me a stronger person as well.