Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have seen an average increase of about 6 percent this year over last year. The growth we have seen is driving up the value of property throughout the county. Of course, you have some areas that have seen more increases than others, but just about everyone will see an increase in their taxes paid.

We know what areas we need to improve on defensively and what areas we need to improve on offensively,

We can't continue commenting on matters that are in court. Actually we are concentrating too much on such things when people in rural areas are surviving on caterpillars.

It gets pretty rough sometimes, especially late at night. All the rest areas are filled up and they don't want you parking on the side.

Ray Nagin

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.

There are a lot of poor areas, a lot of areas where insurance is not common,

There are a lot of people who see redeveloping the inner-city areas as a good investment.

Al Sharpton

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

Dick Morris

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

We built this race on three objectives: to create a great experience for riders, the communities and the corporate sponsors. The cities that we visited this year are very pleased with the positive effect that the race had on their communities. Not only have our 2006 host cities asked us back, but new cities have also inundated us with requests to come to their areas next year.

We obviously didn't have it at all three areas of the ice. In the first period, we did OK. I thought we outplayed them. But we made two critical mistakes and after that the plug came out.

We obviously continue to find areas we need to improve.

We placed 32 trucks in disaster areas that people like your group sent us, ... This outpouring has been tremendous.

We picked the areas that would be a challenge. The 200 miles we use are probably the toughest 200 miles we've got.

We pay attention to detail. Each and every aspect of the game - we talk about it, we practice it. I thought we struggled early, but it is another one of those areas we work at. It?s detail at this time of year that?s important.

David Brooks

We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-class areas nationwide.

While some forecast the economy to be strong this year, some areas hit with heavy downsizing could struggle.

Robert Harris

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

John Davidson

We like Sun. It's another gorilla in the space. And I think Sun has been very affective in moving to other areas including storage, which I think is one of the themes that we have in our technology fund.

Stephen Hadley

The relationship with China is extremely complex. We have areas of very positive cooperation with China.

There's areas that are just not safe for firefighters to go in, areas that are dangerous even on a good day.

There's a perception out there that there are areas that are unsafe, and it could become reality of that's what people think.

John Simpson

There's a need to remember that this is public money funding this research. I had a sense that there was recognition of that today and there was progress in a number of areas that I thought was outstanding.

At least these areas were created. The next step is implementation. If they are going to start paving without implementing the reserves we are going to lose everything.

At least these areas were created. The next step is implementation.

Russ Mitchell

At first, in many areas it didn't look really bad and suddenly we realized we'd been fooled.

Stephen Harper

As we end this week, we're campaigning in areas of the country that have been strong Liberal ridings, at least in the recent past, and I notice Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Liberal ridings in the country. I think at this point that's an encouraging sign.

As rural areas benefit from the central government's new drive to build a 'new socialist countryside' during the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), farmers' income will continue to grow this year.

As more and more middle class African-Americans are moving to areas that are traditionally all-white, we're starting to see a lot of racial bias incidents like this occur.

A broker-dealer cannot place the financial markets, and its customers, at risk by its own inadequacies, especially in the areas of anti-money laundering and customer accounts.

Robert Harris

The more people we have down here, the better we can search areas and get people out.

Bill Gross

A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond strategies, combined with an avoidance of anything that carries those low-risk premiums that Greenspan finally diagnosed, ... Those assets include real estate, equities, high yield, corporate, and some areas of emerging-market debt.

Bill Gross

It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market,