Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Stephen F. Lynch

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

Scott Bakula

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused

Maureen Dowd

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Scott Carpenter

Many industry insiders agree that Apple has kept Boot Camp on the shelf, and only released it in response to those efforts.

When two countries agree to work together, there's no need to pin down details at the highest level. It's different between China and the United States... because it's difficult for these two countries to work together.

David Jackson

(The plan) is something we need to do, but we also need more discussion among the board and hospital staff to make sure we are all in agreement and to hammer out details.

David Axelrod

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

The pitch is being laid now and we have an agreement to play regional and domestic matches there later this year to test the quality.

There are tracts of land that are going to be annexed by the city and are going to be developed by developers that we don't have mitigation agreements with. Part of our job is to continue to get agreements with all of those developers.

There are people who don't agree with that era of film. It is an important piece of the puzzle.

We're confident that once Congress has all the facts, they will strongly endorse an agreement that will help cement a new and important strategic partnership between the United States and India.

(Carney) showed up at the courthouse...and agreed to turn over the (computer) that the Commonwealth was seeking in the discovery motion that was to be argued.

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for me, what with overcoming Barcelona, winning my first cap for England and now signing this extension,

But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders

Jalal Talabani

But those who are pro-Saddam are very difficult to reach agreement with, because they are still dreaming to bring back the dictatorship, which is of course refused by the big majority of the Iraqi people.

Robin Cook

Neither of us is predicting there will be an agreement by Tuesday, but what we have seen over the past 24 hours is substantial movement,

Given that nothing has been moving for many months, the fact the president and speaker actually met and agreed on key issues ... is really a step forward.

Mark Sanchez

Frankly, it would probably be the first time in this country that this has ever been done -- that the boss is signing a contractual agreement that the boss isn't the boss anymore.

If any kind of agreement is reached over basic principles, the OSCE is ready to make essential contribution in realizing that agreement. More work has to be done to turn the future document into a final, full-fledged peace agreement.

Michael Owen

If the transfer cannot be finalized in time I have agreed to go to Newcastle United, but only on a one-year loan. I need to be playing regularly in a World Cup year.

If we agree that there were overpayments, HHSC will bill school districts and return the federal share of the payments to the Medicaid program.

If the court rejects our agreement and Delphi imposes its last proposal, it will probably be impossible to avoid a long strike.

One of the most common forms of 'financial assistance' is the Hire Purchase (HP) agreement.

Mark Jackson

I was going to request city council agree to (installation and maintenance) last night, but the meeting was cancelled,

I would describe the agreement as progress. Clearly more remains to be done.

I would definitely agree that numbers are cleaner than they've been in several years. But a decade? I don't know.

If we had a conference report, we would have filed it. Until everything is agreed upon, nothing is agreed upon.

If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.

If things go well, we'll go to the signing of an agreement on ancestral domain if not within March, maybe next month.

Kathleen Blanco

Shelter life is not a quality life, ... The president and I both agree that people in shelters need more stable, private housing.