Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Daniels

As you know, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions require that firms seeking to do business with the government have a satisfactory record of business ethics and integrity. Consideration should be given to the initiation of suspension or debarment proceedings for all, or a part, of Arthur Andersen and Enron as appropriate.

Jennifer Chrisler

They rolled eggs, they did an egg hunt, they saw Arthur and Clifford, the Easter Bunny and Mrs. Easter Bunny. So they had a great time despite the rain.

John Bunting

It's time. Arthur played a couple of plays the other day, and he's going to be playing much more significantly this week. He's been in our program a long time. He's a very bright kid, he's an intense kid, he's a great team player, and now is his chance to go out and play some football.

Jim Mora

We started talking about this long before the collapse. I'm just grateful that Arthur has shown this confidence in me.

Michael Gowell

We had 13 boats the first year. Arthur and Margery Martin won it, showing up us young wiper-snappers.

Bea Arthur

An Evening with Bea Arthur and Billy Goldenberg at the Piano.

Richard Donovan

Arthur would ask me very direct questions, and he expected very direct answers.

A. N. Wilson

Arthur Temple was easily the man of the century of East Texas. Arthur's leadership was far and away our most important guiding beacon. He led us away from harsh segregation. He showed the way for public housing for the less fortunate. Through the Temple Foundation, which he organized, he provided for the sick and the elderly as well as our most important health systems.

Rob Kardashian

Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

George Steinbrenner

He is very knowledgeable about the game and the business of baseball, and is extremely loyal.

Charles Pradilla

I think the market is struggling from the Enron affair.

Sherron Watkins

In the beginning, Enron looked good on paper,

Ned Riley

The Enron hearings aren't going to help a lot.

David Hawkins

Telecom is where people thought the next Enron was going to be, and they weren't disappointed.

John Sweeney

I've been hearing more workers -- including former Enron workers -- say they now wish they'd had a union.

Jay Inslee

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Jay Leno

In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?

Marshall Allen

In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Peter Singer

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Ingrid Reed

It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

John Gibson

Really all I can say is whenever there have been problems with contributions they have been sent back. There's nothing in the ethics ordinance that prohibits contributions.

Lawrence Bochkis

Professor Frank Nelson, he teaches ethics for God's sake. These people are pillars in this community. But they don't have the moral fortitude to understand that his musical achievements are completely trumped by the fact that he ruined more than one child's life.

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.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is an official and a representative of the government of Iraq.

Leonard Bernstein

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

Richard Morris

It's probably down because of the provisions on those two UK projects.

John Walters

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

Jim McManus

One of the things we always recommend is that there are provisions for the trustee to be replaced.

William John Wills

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Robert Toombs

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Nancy Pelosi

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Luc de Clapiers

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Jurgen Habermas

All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

Julian Assange

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Lee Myung-bak

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

Lawrence Lessig

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Noam Chomsky

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Wayne Dyer

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Shunryu Suzuki

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Swami Vivekananda

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Franz Kafka

All that you are seeking is also seeking you

Honore de Balzac

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Carlos Slepoy

For now, we're in a suspension of the extradition request,