Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

It can seem so complicated, but to me it's really not all that complicated, ... There are certain areas we would never want to see developed.

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

I think it's an outstanding reinforcement of our intention to make this one of the safest areas in Charlotte.

Alex Honnold

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

It could get better, but all in all, we did good. It's experience and it's the first time. We took care of all the areas we need to take care of.

I thought we were good, but we had a few areas we could have just done better. I think we had a couple key routines that weren't really solid. There were some teams that were a little better than us tonight.

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

Bob Bradley

I think you have to make it a two-way game that puts them under pressure and highlights some of the areas where they are not as strong. Give them credit. They've had a good season. They're a balanced team and work hard. They've got a bunch of players that have been together, know each other and seem to have fun playing together.

Charles Schumer

I think you have concern on these three areas -- qualification, independence, judicial philosophy -- by people of both parties and all political stripes,

I think the concerns about free speech in areas where the president is speaking long pre-date Bush. They were an issue in the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration and began as an issue during Reagan. I do think the ACLU has legitimate concerns about the breadth of the new language and how it could be applied.

I think the biggest common tie (between USC and Texas) is that they're in two of the biggest population areas in the country - and population areas for high school football, too.

I think that there are a number of areas where we are cooperating with Russia -- on economic activities, on arms control activities. We need to build on those,

Jamie Oliver

It is great to be bringing this type of training to another part of England, we hopefully will continue to open restaurants and inspire in many more areas that would benefit from having the Foundation.

Lacy is 100 percent accountable. This is supposed to be one of his biggest areas of expertise. He supposedly fixed this problem before and here we go again. The bottom line is, who's supposed to be watching?

We expect to see some acceleration in recovery in areas like downtown Tokyo. This seems like a sensible time for strong-balance-sheet real estate companies to take what could be a golden opportunity.

We expect to see significant damage to residential and commercial properties near and to the east of Rita's track. Fortunately, the heavy commercial and industrial areas of Port Arthur and Beaumont ù with their numerous refineries ù were to the left of the storm's track, where wind speeds are lower, so we do not expect to see significant structural damage to the refineries.

Vladimir Putin

Whatever the length and tediousness of the search for new forms of work within the CIS, we mustn't put up obstacles to work in the areas where tangible achievements have already been reached.

What drives this business now is pricing its products correctly and making the right assumptions on costs. They also are entering into areas that will be more growth driven in the future.

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation." ()

There is a great deal of competition for the brightest and the best, and what we have to realize in education is that we are competition in other areas of business where people can get jobs.

There is no better way of protecting his prerogatives in those areas than by naming someone who is first and foremost a loyalist and secondly an ideologue.

The people of the coast -- and all British Columbians -- can take pride in these achievements, ... They have reached a hard-won consensus aimed at saving areas of global significance.

We just have to get better as a group. The tight end is a unique position. We have to do a good job with blocking in the running game, and we have to be a threat in the passing game. In both areas we just need to work to get better. These guys have worked really hard in the off-season. I think we're stronger and faster, but now we just need to go out and show that on the field.

We're proud it was one of our stores and one of our customers who won. We have a higher concentration of stores in other areas of the country. And we're happy it was a regular shopper.

Geoff Petrie

We think he'll improve our team in areas where we wanted to get better and give us dimensions on the (low) block, ... He has not only been a high-caliber player, but also a high-caliber citizen.

We're optimistic that we'll see more good news in these areas in coming months.