Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike's response was that he didn't really have to prove himself, ... So he wouldn't agree on an extension based on a performance level. And I respect his view that he felt he didn't have to prove himself. But there's also a view that coaches have to prove themselves every year.

Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to obtain agreement on an in-court settlement.

Mr. Pettigrew says we are distrustful. I'll agree with him, but we have reason to be distrustful,

Mr. Green stated I will call you early tomorrow to let you know if and when GM is prepared to table an economic offer, ... It is not clear how much progress can be made until the pattern agreement is tabled.

Mr. Stephens and another member at Augusta, John Griffith from Texas, were trying to figure out a good caddy who could get along with Ben. They thought I was the one. Between Mr. Griffith and Mr. Stephens, they got us both to agree and we've been with each other ever since. We work so well together.

Mr. Reed is a straight shooter. He has always taken the time to hear citizens' concerns and meet with local community representatives. He may not always agree with our position, but we always know exactly where he stands. That's a giant step in the right direction.

Marvin Kalb

McClellan yesterday knew that the man who was shot had suffered a heart attack. He should have reported that, he should have told that to the reporters, and they to the American people. That was an extremely important moment in this whole story. Up to that point, you can say well, it wasn't all that important, although I don't agree with that, but after that moment, it was indisputably an important thing.

Mayor Bloomberg gave the teachers the largest raise in history and is optimistic that we can agree to another one.

One of the things we did agree on was that $8.50 was a starting point and only a starting point. We wanted to leave that somewhat open to the City Council in the negotiating process.

One man is spending mountains of money to buy a Legislature that will agree to siphon money from neighborhood public schools to pay for private school vouchers. Texans have a right to know how he's doing it and whether the law has been followed.

One in four agree that they need to stay there until the mission is done. But the fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority, meaning the rest, three out of four, say that they don't think the mission can be accomplished.

James Wolfensohn

One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.

Charles Payne

Obviously we're getting to the point where everyone would have to agree that, on a short-term basis, the market is overdone on the downside.

Obviously, we do not agree with the decision, and we will continue to press our case through all of the levels of review and beyond as necessary,

Kofi Annan

Obviously we didn't get everything we wanted. With 191 member states, it's not easy to get an agreement,

Occasionally, we have had people who come in and say they don't agree with the death penalty. We don't try to take sides on it.

Of course Brazil has the condition to impose its style and advance. But I don't agree when people say the group is easy. It's actually a tricky group.

George Clooney

I think the truth is and the secret to this is in a way of trying to not be polarizing and I find that people on the left and right are - it's an incredibly polarized time. In general we're trying to find things that we can agree on and one of them for me is we have to agree on the idea that we're allowed to question authority.

Mike Hoffman

I think the whole thing was designed to show how we were divided and how we couldn't agree on what should be done. All of the votes would have been captured on a computer and the percentages would have been locked in. We didn't like that at all.

Ted Cruz

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

It is always good to have standards in place because it shows people what to agree to, in what is often a confusing world.

John Catsimatidis

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

Justin Hayward

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

Tedy Bruschi

I think Steve would agree that it's been a long road for him and me to get back. To be recognized for it is an honor and you don't want to get this type of award every year.

Billy Donovan

I think sometimes when you win people think you're not challenged, but I don't necessarily agree with that. (Wake Forest and Syracuse) were won by five points, then we went to Miami and with two minutes to go in the game the score was tied. Sometimes people think if you win, it's been all easy. I think our guys have had to grind out games and find ways to win some games. I'd rather learn through winning than losing.

I think Ed and I made a good team because he wasn't a yes man for me and I wasn't a yes man for him. If I did something that he didn't agree with, he'd tell me. Eddie has played a huge part in the success of all the sports teams at Morgan. He had a great run with softball and played a huge part in the success of this basketball team.

John Roberts

I think everyone would agree that the religion jurisprudence under the First Amendment, the establishment clause and the free exercise clause, could be clearer.

I think everyone would agree a pandemic is not imminent.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music.

I saw things going on that I didn't agree with.

I resent his comments and don't agree with him being here. I was told from the beginning that if I had anything important to report, I should present it to the entire board. And this was of public record and very important.

People may not always agree with him, but they trust him.