Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Carman

I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

If you can do it legitimately, I would agree with that. I don't think you should be looking at your reserves with a mind toward meeting your earnings target.

John Dalton

If you can't agree on a common vision, how can you work together as partners? I hope the people of Waterville understand that there are a lot of very civic-minded people who worked really hard to try to make this happen.

If we are to reach an agreement, management has to stop overreaching.

If the U.S. Supreme Court would agree with the South Dakota case, Roe is overturned. There would be nothing left of Roe v. Wade.

If the United States had taken a leading role in trying to make this a meaningful agreement ... then I think the whole world would have turned around. Unfortunately, it has been a big disappointment and creates a real threat for our children's future.

If Washington was not the capital of the United States, there would have been no chance that a baseball franchise would be put within such close proximity to an existing franchise. But on that basis, I agree with the location because we in baseball say baseball is our national pastime, and I think there's a great deal of legitimacy to that.

Alan Greenspan

I recognize that there is a stock market bubble problem at this point, ... and I agree with Governor Lindsey that this is a problem that we should keep an eye on.

Kofi Annan

I recognize that there are no simple solutions to the debt problem, ... But where there is agreement in principle that debt relief is essential and when delays have a profoundly negative impact of the lives of poor people, clearly more must be done.

Bob DuPuy

I regret very much that D.C. officials have failed to honor the agreement they made when they successfully bid for the Expos to move to Washington. Baseball has no choice but to pursue arbitration so the terms of our original agreement can be honored and to begin to explore whatever options are available to us.

I remain optimistic for two reasons. One is it's not as if we haven't done anything to date. We have done a lot of the work that needs to be done in these types of negotiations. I also believe there is an understanding on the other side with respect to the issues that are facing the game. The only thing we need to get our arms around and come to an agreement on, and I'm not going to suggest it's insignificant, is what's the proper way to resolve these issues.

Gary Young

I live, eat and drink the Colin McNeil fight every day right now. I can think of nothing else and I agree with Colin that this will be the one to watch.

Marco Rubio

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

John Gage

In this last year for the first time you had agreement amongst all the poor countries that Internet and IT is a fundamental component of development. Two or three years ago you would go to a meeting and people would say: 'We don't even have clean water, how can we even think about IT,'

Jacky Ickx

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

I have talked to the GM people and they feel they have come to a point where they can put an agreement together. I think both sides expect they will have something, and the target is the announcement of earnings.

Olli Rehn

I hope member states can soon agree on what the accession of a 28th member state would mean in terms of the composition of the commission and voting rights in the council,

Joseph Estrada

I hope it will not create tension because we have agreement to resolve problems through diplomatic means,

I honestly feel like we're close. We're days away from having an agreement.

I honestly believe we are in a situation where this could come together in a matter of hours if people agree that it's time to do that, but we haven't been able to get that kind of an agreement from the unions. Frankly, we think we're there. Obviously there's not complete agreement on this.

John Tortorella

I have the ultimate respect for Pat Quinn. I see a coach go and I just don't agree with it.

Alija Izetbegovic

I have reminded him (Major) that there are some positive as well as some negative elements in the Dayton agreement and that lately, these negative elements are more and more prevailing. That is creating a fear among our people -- a fear that that might lead to the disintegration of the country.

I haven't seen a lot of the movies they'll be talking about, so I can't really relate to whether I agree with who won a certain award or not.

I have to agree with the second part. None of us know as much as we think we do. If I knew as much as I thought I did, I'd be a smart guy.

I have to admit, that when they first enlisted, I was shocked. But at the same time I agreed with their decision. I trusted that they were mature young men and that they were capable of making a decision like that.

I have to say, if you read the reprimand, a fair reading is that Harry Schmidt intended to murder these people. They published it on the Web site. It is not what he agreed to Article 15 (hearing) for. He agreed to dereliction of duty, not murder. And your reputation is worth something.

Ariel Sharon

I have seen the wars, the battles, the agony, ... I would like to reach an agreement. I am ready to dedicate several years to that.

Mike Pompeo

I have run two small businesses in Kansas, and I have seen how government can crush entrepreneurism. That's why I ran for Congress. It just so happens that there are a lot of people in south central Kansas who agree with me on that.

I really like the pastor here. And I agree with his philosophy that the church has to be more than worrying about the building. ... There is no mandatory giving to the restoration. We tithe, and if I want to donate money to the restoration, it's my choice.

I prefer an imperfect agreement that is living to an imperfect agreement that doesn't exist.

I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble's life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.

Mark Murphy

I'm really pleased that we were able to reach an agreement with Randy on a contract extension. I have tremendous respect for the way he runs the program.

I'm proud to be an American to begin with. And even though I don't agree with every reason for us to be over there, I'm proud of our soldiers that are over there.