Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Mierzwinski

Bank fees are still increasing and big banks are charging bigger fees. It's a serious problem for consumers.

Andrew Collins

Banks are now recognized as providers of financial services.

Masafumi Nakayama

Bad-loan disposal is the single most important task for banks at the moment. Apparently, the market is sending a cheer to Asahi's efforts.

Edward Bastian

These losses emphasize the need for the urgency with which we have to pursue route network and revenue improvements and the use of the bankruptcy process to reduce the cost and complexity of our business.

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

Phil Hellmuth

One day I looked up and I had $20,000 in the bank and my student loans were paid off and I was 21, ... Then I started going to Vegas a lot.

Jerry Evans

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

E. P. Thompson

This will not be a bank that a consumer ever sees. Its only customer is Wal-Mart.

Larry Johnson

Bonds aren't going to do it for this guy.

Josh Stiles

He didn't say enough on the permanent tax cuts and that's why the dollar is higher and (U.S.) bonds are higher.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

Investors aren't sure if they should buy more longer-dated bonds with yields this low.

Akihiko Yokoyama

Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields are going to grind higher.

Peter Canelo

In the last three years, bonds have done OK, with yields around 6 percent. But the stock market has more than doubled.

Anthony Crescenzi

The Dow went from 8,360 to 8,420 in the last 45 minutes. That turned the bonds down,

Dan Doctoroff

We're not going to allocate Liberty Bonds today to buildings that are never going to be built.

David Horner

Construction spending was so weak. That gave bonds a boost.

Stephen Jen

They can't run out of U.S. exposure. They have Treasuries, cash, the whole yield curve, corporate bonds that they can invest in. They can even invest in paintings.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Saad Qindeel

Any comments regarding the contents of the constitution from a non-Iraqi source are not going to be helpful.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Katherine MacMurray

This game we tried to focus on positive comments to help our players and that helped win the game.

Bill Belichick

You would have to talk to the Jets. I have no comment on their job or their situation or anything else. Anything they have to say about it, I'm sure they would be more than happy to give you that information.

Joseph Cirincione

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.

Cathy Cook

The public comment period is open until May 11. It doesn't just stop with these (hearings). We hope to have a final decision in about a year.

Bernard Robertson

Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make.

Stanton Glantz

entirely free to publish his review without including our comments and without restriction.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Anthony Bourdain

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Tony Abbott

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Tite Kubo

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Steve Goodman

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

Michio Kaku

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

Louis Farrakhan

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

Michael K. Simpson

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Derrick Brooks

We wanted to stop Willis McGahee. If he's able to run the football, then that takes a lot of pressure off a young quarterback.

Roger Ortmeier

We just jumped on them right from the start. We put the pressure on them, which was good.

Allen Iverson

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

Tony Parker

The pressure is there, ... Especially when you're trying to win the championship.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Carlo Ancelotti

Lyon is a very strong team with solid organization. We put them under a lot of pressure but they responded well. I wouldn't say we have the advantage, I think it is still 50-50.