Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think most people would agree that two-thirds of the economic slowdown we've seen is due to higher energy prices, ... And with higher energy prices, consumers will either have to reduce savings rates ... or reduce consumption.

Ben Bernanke

I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful.

I think most of the police departments will agree that you're just getting them off the street for a couple of months,

Jalal Talabani

I think most of the Arab Sunnis have agreed to this constitution. And those who do not agree with it do not represent the Arab Sunnis,

Orrin Hatch

I think most authorities agree this is something we doubt Iran, Iraq or Libya would try and do, because they know of the massive response we would have to bring down on them.

John Hancock

I think, on balance, most Missourians agree with the approaches that the legislature and governor have taken to reform the Medicaid system while still providing a very generous benefit to low-income Missourians.

Jim Mora

It doesn't do you any good. It's over. You can send stuff in and it doesn't change the game. I am not sending anything in. It is done. I think the officials in this league, in my opinion, do an excellent job. We obviously had a disagreement on that play, but I felt they did a very good job. I just didn't agree with that call.

It does share the (Clinton) formula in that essentially, the North Koreans, for their breaking out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and breaking their agreement with the Clinton administration, are going to get a long list of goodies.

I think if you ask any coach in America, they'd all agree that they're not going to like homecoming night. The more things your team has to worry about other than basketball makes concentrating on the game tough.

I think if people see her play, they understand the kind of player she is. Those that have seen her would probably agree that she deserves it. She plays hard from beginning to end.

I stuck to my end of it and if they had, they wouldn't be wearing so much egg on their face. There is never a deal until it's done, and done means everything, all the terms and conditions have to be agreed up, not just some of them. I'm not looking to throw darts, but the fact of the matter is it's really a Baltimore problem.

When I took this job I had those instincts surgically removed, ... We believe in bipartisan foreign policy, and it's important to understand that we must test this agreement to see if it works.

We clearly do live in a society that has a persistent pattern of racial disparity and I think most people would agree that that has something to do with our history.

We can only sign him on loan now but we have agreed to sign him in the summer.

We're all very happy with this. Its a good agreement, we think.

Ben Gordon

We're all basketball players, so we're used to wearing sneakers and being comfortable on our feet. That's the only one I didn't agree with.

We hope this agreement will foster an environment in which London and Beijing can become closer business partners and develop a deeper cultural understanding through the exchange of tourists and students.

We hope they can raise the quota. The main question is how much the increase in the quota would be if both sides agree to increase it.

We hope that we will reach an agreement with India.

Yasser Arafat

We hope that we will have this agreement for the implementation of what had been agreed upon very soon.

Mahmoud Abbas

We hope that we can reach a satisfactory solution for us, because it's important to have full freedom for people to come in and out, ... This subject is under serious discussion, but there is no agreement at this time ... We hope that we can reach solutions for all the crossings very soon.

Saeb Erekat

We hope that we can conclude an agreement this year and with that we can have our own state by agreement, ... The decision last night was to recommit ourselves to peace as a strategic option.

We hope that we can come talk to them and perhaps come to a strategy we can all agree on for flights next year.

We hope that voluntarily agreeing to further scrutiny demonstrates our commitment to our long-standing relationship with the United States.

Jalal Talabani

We hope that by the end of 2006, our security forces are up to the level of taking responsibility from many American troops, with complete agreement with Americans,

We hope public transportation owners will agree to run their vehicles on natural gas.

We hope people agree that a little wait is okay in order to support the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.

We hope it will be a partnership agreement when possible. The money isn't there yet. We're still raising funds; the target is to raise $3 million over a four-year period.

We hope before the end of the week the Senate Intelligence Committee will reach an agreement to move forward in this important phase of the intelligence investigation,

We have talked about what he wanted and the future of Wolf Pack football. If we can come to some agreements (today), and I have all the confidence in the world that we will, we will talk about what's going to happen with the remainder of his contract and the years to come.

We have taken a number of steps to put a more robust export compliance system in place. And what we're committing to do in this agreement is to continue working with them to make sure we are in compliance.

We don't expect that both sides agree on all issues. On some issues we will find a common ground, on some others more time and discussion will be needed.

Jeb Bush

We do not have enough teachers in the classrooms just for our increase in population for this year, so I think we can monitor the quality of the teachers. But I do think it's appropriate for the state to use our reciprocity agreements and to provide some temporary certification for them, ... We're seeing a dramatic increase by the way in the number of students. It doubled yesterday. I think it went from 1,000 to 2,400 in one day. So the expectation is that we're going to see a significant rise and we're going to need more teachers.