Famous Quotes & Sayings

With the exception of DoD, federal departments have never had requirements to do this type of work before. So typically, they don't have good processes, good visibility into their asset holdings, or good reporting, in place.

Mark McKinnon

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Deborah Harkness

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

With one simple move the president has blown a hole in the nuclear rules that the entire world has been playing by and broken his own word to assure that we will not ship nuclear technology to India without the proper safeguards.

Without proper communication, people will wonder why they're left in the dark, and assume the worst.

With the assault on labor right now, it was important for us to be out with all the unions.

With such uncertainty about the future direction of the (Lord & Taylor) business, it is difficult to assess what a financial buyer would be willing to pay for the business.

We need to be more assertive in the attacking third and maybe we'll be more successful that way.

Steve Odland

We have many associates and facilities in harm's way ... we also have thousands of our customers who will suffer greatly as a result of this storm,

Susan Rice

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

When we implement the law, we assume Congress knows what they're doing.

(When we hired a search firm) folks automatically assumed that we were at first base, and that couldn't be further from the truth. We're rounding third base.

Henry Hyde

We will hear from other witnesses in live hearings and in depositions as we move towards a final resolution. In addition, we have yet to hear from the president. And I can assure my colleagues, if and when the president would want to testify, he may have unlimited time to do so.

Ahmed Chalabi

We will have an assembly which is elected by the people and a government which is completely legitimate,

When monetary policy turns more accommodative, the more cyclical, leveraged and more-volatile asset classes generally outdistance defensive names.

When I watch Scott play, I do so differently than most parents. Yes, I am his father, but I am also an assistant coach, a role that I take very serious and use my experiences to help this entire team improve.

We welcome the European Union's intention to assume the lion's share of the financial burden and, given the U.S. role in the military campaign, this is an appropriate division of labor,

We had subtle differences, not intentional discrimination of any kind, but subtle differences in the way we assigned people.

We are expanding at the right time. We have invested in the terminal at the Port of Baltimore because we continue to attract the cargo and want to remain an asset to both shippers and the port.

We are excited to have Ron join our team as we continue to build out our efforts in these sectors. Ron will be an asset to the firm as we continue to expand our capabilities in the future.

We are doing what we're describing as defensive hedging. The assumption we're working on is that there is more upward risk for oil prices.

Steve Buyer

The president's premeditated assault on the administration of justice must be interpreted as a threat to our system of government.

The president is doing the right thing to assure people that the federal government is much better prepared for Rita than it was for Katrina.

Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago when they had put him in assisted living, he was (very competitive) up there playing bingo with them old women.

Under the second scenario, the effect on asset prices would be more protracted and would eventually be more differentiated by individual country circumstances.

The reason to hold this stock is the high asset value of the group in a hot property market.

When she's out on the floor, she doesn't get rattled. Her biggest asset is that she's so positive. She has continued to work hard every. At this point she's not planning to play basketball in college, so she wants to go out on top.

When she got in she definitely contributed to the team and she's a great shooter. She takes care of the ball and definitely would have been an asset to the team.

When macro viruses first came on the scene, most viruses were still written in assembly language or machine code, ... And they were spread by physically transporting infected floppies from one machine to another. In those days, we recommended that you upgrade your anti-virus software every two to three months.

Finally, ... the turnover ratio is the big secret of the mutual fund industry. The average fund turns over its assets 100 percent; that means they fully sell out and buy something else, and guess who gets to pay that tax bill at the end of the year? You and I do.

Fidelity bases its IPO allocation policy entirely on asset size and that's the way it should be.

Jeff Pulver

There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does not provide their listing data to the listing data base providers, or their phone service is under a spouse or roommate's name.