Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Lazear

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Chen Xingdong

China's trade surplus will remain a sticking point between China and the U.S.. It's hard to close the trade gap because there's very little China can buy from abroad that it doesn't already make.

Jay Bryson

I guess if there's any surprise it's that I would have thought exports would have grown a little more than they did. But in the second quarter everyone else had weaker economies, although more recent signs are that things abroad are picking up. So maybe June was too soon to look for an increase.

Jack Straw

I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad

Steve Murphy

Howard Dean's assertion that we should leave our troops stationed in hostile territory abroad without providing the resources they need to be safe is irresponsible. First, he said he would support the $87 billion for our troops in Iraq. Then he said he wouldn't politicize the issue. Now he has reneged on both,

Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

Charles Glass

Why was a member or leader of the kidnap group actually arrested by the Pakistanis, and why wasn't he able to provide better information on the exact location of Pearl? ... All these things are going to have to be looked into, because I have a terrible feeling this won't be the last kidnapping of an American abroad by Muslim groups who are disenchanted with American foreign policy.

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Megan Quinn

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Paul Wilbur

As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facility as well. We are investigating some additional opportunities that are coming up with our facility.

J. J. Johnson

We will also continue to invest in capabilities to execute on our software plus services vision, including additional resource investments related to Windows Live and the Windows Live Platform. Expanding the capabilities of our Windows Live platform, extending our reach and impact with and to advertisers, continuing to enhance our search offering, and building out our operational infrastructure are critical to our long-term success.

Chris Garza

What this means for U.S. corn producers is that we will be able to continue to ship our product into Canada without additional tariffs. This is good news for U.S. producers, for not only corn but other commodities as well. I think it sends a sign to U.S. producers that international trade law does work.

Greg Kelly

We'll make a determination once they (completely) register students whether additional teachers need to be hired. A lot depends on how many students enter our schools system.

Gary Chapman

Many kids don't fit that mold of the high school setting and they need a lot of additional support or just a different way of learning.

Doug Ross

Several of the players have sought out additional help in the off-season and have demonstrated a desire to do very well.

Kevin Walsh

We're not convinced that all the victims have been found, ... We're still reaching out for additional victims to see if there are any out there.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Michael Goodman

The music on both is pretty much the same. It's the N.F.L. and Ellen DeGeneres that builds a brand in the market, not 30 channels of rock music.

Will Rogers

A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.

Bobby Clark

The one thing I would be proud of the team, they kept trying really hard to win it. We forced both the overtimes - Notre Dame was the team looking to win the game.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, therefore you determine your destination, and which direction will take you there.

Jake Siewert

We will not determine the timing of the vote.

Andrew Young

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jarome Iginla

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

Robert McGowan

(The cap) could be fine-tuned but I think it's a very fair solution, ... Plus, it's not our offices job to determine what the state (legislature) decides.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm not quite sure of his place in history. History will determine that.

Peter Beattie

The CMC will have to determine what they will do,

John Chambers

The industry growth is there, and it's there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.

David Graham

The FDA has let the American people down,

Ted Parrish

Intel has a history of undershooting in its initial guidance.

Carl Smith

I'm 100 percent sure if Dr. Clayton was there, this would not have happened. It's all because the people in the guidance office had no idea what they were doing.

John O'Connor

It just seemed like there were more questions this time. It was just simply a reinforcement of what our guidance is.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Jennifer Lawrence

It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

Jacqueline Novogratz

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

Christopher Hitchens

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Hippocrates

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

Hippocrates

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

Hippocrates

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

Steve Courson

There's a whole minefield of problems, and the minefield doesn't go away,

Amber Dillon

It saves a lot of problems down the road.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.