Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Julius Wilson

I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class.

Indra Nooyi

We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'

Nicky Oppenheimer

The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

Yvette Clarke

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

Bill Owens

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

Chuck D.

Trade barriers do not address competitiveness problems. Barriers do not create incentives to restructure, consolidate, reform, and innovate. (Tariffs will) increase the likelihood of a prolonged economic recession through inflationary prices.

Town employees were concerned about interpretation of the personnel manual and some of the regulations, and I think addressing those with the involvement of as many town employees as he could ... has been received very positively.

This study was designed to address a critical, immediate need for patient safety in the people who participated in clinical trials of this drug.

Donald Kennedy

Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying,

Steve Schmidt

Today's campaign rhetoric will do nothing to help him bridge his growing credibility gap on the economy. His speech failed to address the mystery of his own budget gap: Which taxes will he raise and which federal spending programs will he cut?

Today's Borland news is indicative that Serena's Change Governance strategy is the right one and validates what we see as critical in addressing changing customer needs.

Today's announcement will address immediate needs, including the housing situation as winter approaches,

Bob Muglia

Today's announcement is yet another milestone in our collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address our customers' most critical business application needs. EMC and Microsoft are enhancing the delivery of joint solutions by our skilled service professionals, and this commitment will enable customers to optimize their infrastructure with high-performance servers and applications.

George Allen

Today's announcement appears to be good news for our efforts to keep the Navy's jets at Oceana. It throws a well-deserved wrench into the controversial, unwise and unusual BRAC order. However, I would urge caution before anyone suggests that the encroachment problems in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake are of no concern to the Navy. We must not be distracted from addressing the issues that have caused this discussion in the first place. We must aim to make sure that Oceana remains the best location for the Master Jet Base on the East Coast.

Today's agreement in principle is an important milestone for Nortel. We continue to work vigorously on the implementation of our remediation plan and addressing our outstanding regulatory matters. In addition, we continue to improve our governance provisions and financials systems and controls. These are critically important for the company. We remain fully committed to rebuilding value for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Today we are announcing a significant update on our plan to address our health-care burden, which is the cornerstone of our efforts to reduce structural costs by a $5 billion (US) run rate by the end next year.

Walter Kirn

Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

Wendell H. Ford

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

Wong Kar-wai

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

Aaron Patzer

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

We do address as much as we know.

We would hope that the United States would become engaged again as soon as possible so that we jointly address this real problem.

We were addressing many of the issues as they were looking at the same issues.

John Sweeney

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

We definitely wanted to get the ball inside. But the thing is that we had the shots to take, but we just didn't take them. We weren't taking jump shots period. That's something that we'll address in practice, but hats off to Hampton. We lost to a good team.

You have to address the basic issue of supply or you will forever be chasing this problem.

We are addressing the city's concerns that it get a neighborhood-serving project.

We are addressing the area as best we can, ... That area has always been notorious for prostitution.

We are addressing it and we are seeing a decline.

Alan Greenspan

We're going to be running into very severe pressures in later years, and the better we are prepared in moving into that period, the more likely it is that we will address it in a rational, sensible rational way,

We're not sure how successful we're going to be at getting a bipartisan bill, which is what he said he wants in order to address the ESA.

We are really anxious to address those charges and prove his innocence.