Famous Quotes & Sayings

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Steve Clarke

It seems like I'm upsetting the General Assembly all the time anyway.

The bid process is based on a balanced scorecard which includes things like facilities for spectators, practice facilities for players, dressing rooms, transport infrastructure and so on. However, 50 per cent of the scorecard is based on commercial return and Cardiff, backed by the Welsh Assembly and Cardiff City Council, were into figures we couldn't possibly reach.

Student Assembly has a backup budget if the tax increase goes through. There's one if it doesn't pass and one if (the tax increase) does pass.

. . . Despite a combined 16 years in the New Jersey State Legislature, Assemblymen Kean and Corodemus proved that they have no idea how the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee functions or who is responsible for the distribution of homeland security funds.

It's troublesome that Wall Street is looking at this. It hurts the company. But because of what the General Assembly is doing, it is predictable.

For every lost job in an assembly facility, there are going to be two or three more jobs lost at companies that support that plant.

The failure of the Maryland General Assembly to pass a slots bill is clearly responsible for this announcement today,

I'm not persuaded that they will immediately hit assembly capacity. They might want to wait and see how hard and soft the landing is, and might try to see what they can do quickly to reconfigure production.

I'm not persuaded that they will immediately hit assembly capacity, ... They might want to wait and see how hard and soft the landing is, and might try to see what they can do quickly to reconfigure production.

I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

Stephen Lewis

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

Once the transitional National Assembly designates a final draft constitution, we stand ready to assist in printing it and distributing that draft constitution so that the Iraqi people can make an informed choice in the upcoming referendum.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns

It took 30 years for it (the Legislature) to pass something as simple as protecting people on the basis of sexual orientation. On one hand, the Illinois General Assembly should be commended for recognizing all Illinoisans should be treated the same. But on the other hand, what the hell took so long?

It will be better for the ULFA to first shun violence and then contest the assembly polls and come to power.

They both had special careers here so we wanted to send them out with a bang on their last night at Assembly Hall.

The wage earner in the state of Michigan is going to have a hard road for the next five-10 years regardless of whether they're an autoworker or not. The bottom line is the worker on the assembly line or in the parts department with two homes, a boat and kids in college, those times are coming to an end.

The governor has said before that he believes the lottery will do away with the video poker industry. But, it will be up to the General Assembly regarding legislation on the matter.

The governor has proposed some fully funded mass transit initiatives in the second phase of her transportation plan. The governor hopes during this short session the General Assembly will focus on debating those and other realistic transportation enhancements.

Ahmed Chalabi

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

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.

There are going to be several more auto assembly plants build in the next five years or so in the United States and there's a good chance most of those will be coming to the Southeast.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Michael Griffin

We focused on redefining the station assembly sequence in fact to concentrate on assembly, and we are largely deferring utilization and we are paring logistics to the bone. We don't like that, but confronted with a choice between having a high confidence to be able to complete the assembly of the station and deferring utilization, or utilizing it heavily as we built it and possibly not finishing, we chose the former course.

There has to be a way to have Medicaid relief without taxes being involved. I would love to see the General Assembly look at their budget the same way we look at ours, and live within their means.

We view this as a continuation of what has been a very open and public process. And while we still strongly favor the governor's proposal, we look forward to continuing this dialogue with the General Assembly in the weeks ahead.

Asif Ali Zardari

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.

We would have appreciated it if the Assembly reviewed it before they rushed to override.

Kevin Nash

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

Evo Morales

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Our announcement is an assembly and test factory, a 300 million dollar initial investment, 1,200 people initial employment: (it's) just one small initial step.

People don't remember that GM is building assembly plants out in Lansing.