Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Koenig

Just saying it was approved by the board and accountants wasn't going to cut it.

John Thompson

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

Sam Bodman

Last night I approved a company's request for loan from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

Brian Meyers

We looked at the Medicare market and knew that it was a growing market. Our first challenge was actually to become approved by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

Thomas Hubbard

I didn't want any senators to vote based on his assertion that I'd approved his speech.

Don Blair

I don't feel conformable approving something just because the county approved it.

Linda Malec

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

Orrin Hatch

I am concerned that the AOL-Time Warner merger, if approved with this intertwined interest with AT&T, might have anticompetitive effects to the detriment of consumers,

Randy Blankenship

I am extremely glad to see that this project has been approved and is moving forward. It should be a real source of pride for the community and will benefit all Madera students and athletic programs from high school to youth sports.

William Wilkinson

There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.

John Bolton

I must say that the report's assertion is simply impossible to believe,

Linda Williamson

I haven't talked to Lapointe myself, but I take at face value his assertion that he helped Karla because he has helped other convicts turn their lives around -- and good for him,

William Poole

Indeed, Netscape's continued success in distributing millions of copies of Navigator over the Web belies any assertion that this distribution channel has in any sense been foreclosed to Netscape.

Rabindranath Tagore

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c

Michael Moser

It's his assertion he was not driving at all in a careless or reckless manner. I don't believe that the way he was driving was the cause of the separation of the chipper.

Eliot Cohen

That's a controversial assertion that I'll stand by.

John Newman

All of the evidence in my opinion provides extremely strong support for an assertion that Mr. Coleman was in fact the source of the DNA.

George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Nathan Brookwood

He certainly goes for unconventional, creative approaches, like licensing Sun's software based on the number of employees that a customer had. So in that regard, I'm optimistic.

Chris Dodd

He convinced me that he will exercise judgment based on the law and the facts of a particular matter,

Richard Suttmeier

Greenspan is at risk of losing his credibility, based upon the fact he was so upbeat two or three weeks ago, ... If they don't bring rates up at this meeting, he will lose credibility -- that would send a horrible message to markets.

George Packer

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition. I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition, ... I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.