Famous Quotes & Sayings

From Lima, Ohio, to Lima, Peru, this trade agreement will mean growth and opportunity for workers, farmers, and business.

Paul Wolfowitz

From concert stadiums to high-profile summits, people from rich and poor countries alike have been moved by the suffering we see in so many parts of our world, ... They have demanded action, and with this debt relief agreement they have it.

From what we've seen the parties do seem to want to reach an agreement.

I don't think anyone should underestimate the influence this agreement will have. I think other people are going to want to follow this agreement because it just makes sense.

James Comey

If AOL fails to comply with the agreement, the deal is off and they are in a world of trouble,

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.

Scott Erickson

If a police services agreement is going to be successful, it will need to be a win-win situation for both communities.

If a doctor breaks securities laws or his or her confidentiality agreement with a pharmaceutical research company to gain financially, they should be severely punished.

If a worker has a particular set of skills that can only be employed in a certain field, the non-competition agreement can't prevent him from getting a new job using those skills.

David Cox

I don't think it is a good thing to sign an agreement that is vague when we still have issues to deal with.

I don't think it spells doom on an agreement.

I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus. We're a regulatory agency, deciding on matters which are brought before us.

For us that has to mean the Government has to return to the Good Friday Agreement as the baseline document in any negotiations we have.

Lawrence Summers

For these three reasons -- national security, how China evolves, our commercial interests -- I believe that this agreement is very much in our national interest.

Max Baucus

For the United States, Malaysia represents a major commercial player - in the same league as France, Italy, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. In the past, we have spent too much time, effort, and resources negotiating agreements with small countries of little commercial significance.

Given the nature of the agreement and ongoing litigation, it will ultimately be up to our respective industries to decide if they want to embrace a solid market-based agreement.

If it is part of a collective bargaining agreement, the Legislature would likely look favorably on it.

If we were somehow able to sign one franchise agreement every week of the year, it's going to take us 30 years to complete this process.

If we are having a difficult time reaching an agreement now, I don't want to imagine what it could be like in 2006 and 2007. If they don't like our proposal now, they really won't like it then.

Javier Solana

If that agreement is not implemented by force on the ground, it will not be effective.

If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce.

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

If the company can expand this agreement to other markets, the opportunity could be big.

Martin Frost

If the board is uncomfortable with the financial situation, and if the board does not feel like these agreements will go forward, the board could vote to file Chapter 11 (Thursday).

Natan Sharansky

If the agreement will be based on the transfer of tens of thousands of Jews, if the agreement will be based on concessions on Jerusalem, no doubt this agreement has no chance to win the support of the Israeli people,

If such an event occurred and Belden were unable to obtain waivers or otherwise resolve the covenant violation, an acceleration of the amounts under the credit agreement or the termination of the ISDA agreement could create a default under the indenture for Belden's $192 million senior secured notes.

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

Michael Howard

One of the principle objectives of the terrorists is to divide us, one from another. So far ... they have failed in that objective. It's important that they continue to fail in that objective. That's why we believe it is so important that we approach these difficult issues in a spirit of consensus, with the objective of reaching agreement wherever we possibly can.

One of the primary purposes of the collective bargaining agreement was to provide for the medical needs of an employee after retirement.

I would be probably naive to say that there was agreement on all these matters. There are, of course, profound differences in the approach of the two sides.

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

I would anticipate that in the event we don't reach an agreement within the next year, there's a strong possibility that we might be locked out again.

Andrew Card

If we don't find that happening, all of the progress expected under the trade agreement could disappear. So an excessively weak yen would jeopardize success under the auto agreement.