Famous Quotes & Sayings

This board perpetrated a fraud on the city when they suggested we needed a third middle school. If you really feel like you need to close a school, close the new one.

This board of directors has been totally asleep,

This boarding on the high seas was done on the express permission of the Cambodian government, the flag state of the vessel,

This is about publicity for the police. Community boards and groups have been loud about quality of life issues, and the police are placating them.

This is a management team that has never held a board meeting in Boise. They don't want to be in front of people, they don't want to be questioned, so they go and hide.

Chuck Thompson

This is a farce. Whose plan is this? It's not the public's. They need to go to the drawing board and include the public.

This is a different stage. You're not playing to the public, you're not playing to a board member.

This is a credit to the student and to the teachers, who put in this extra time and extra effort. This is also a reflection of the education system here in Union City, and Superintendent Stanly Sanger and the Board of Education, who back these programs to the max.

We've got to get more second-chance opportunities. We've tried to stress taking care of the ball, playing together and crashing the boards offensively.

We've got to do a better job of controlling the boards and not giving people so many second, third, fourth and fifth chances.

We've just got to get a little better driving in runs. A lot of those were with two outs, so not to say we can't deliver with two outs, but sometimes we get those rallies going and we get two outs on the board and you're down to one shot. A lot of them were with two outs tonight.

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

Carly Fiorina

While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision.

While increasing student tuition is the last thing we want to do, it may be something the board will have to consider.

Trevor Linden

While I had hoped every member of the executive board would have submitted a vote, I have spoken with a few teams during this process that said they were going to wait to find out what happens with certain claims filed before the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor. We are confident that these claims are without merit and will be withdrawn or dismissed in the near future.

We need to demonstrate to the City Council and the Planning Board that we meet the parking (requirements).

School boards have to work together, so they're used to bringing all opinions to the table and trying to reach consensus.

Wendy Kopp

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Eli Broad

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

School board members take their responsibilities for making decisions that shape the course and quality of education in our communities very seriously.

Public input is a factor, but each individual board member is going to have to weigh it for himself or herself.

Rick Perry

Questions surrounding testimony from the key witness in these cases, coupled with recommendations from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, weighed heavily on my final decision,

Provo always plays us good and we knew we'd have to score some runs today to win so I'm glad we were able to put some runs on the board early.

Probably the reason why '03 was lower than '02, and the reason that we don't think '04 will is necessarily going to be a blockbuster, is despite these good economic data coming in, we sold so many cars using incentives in '01 and '02, we didn't get the spring board effect you usually see,

The teachers were just shocked and saddened and we tried everything we could. The board tried to see if we could get some sort of short-term infusion until we could secure money from grants promised for later in the year.

The taxpayers of the entire district have subsidized everything we've done for years. That is something the board does not want to make worse.

The 'Taste Revolution' is a movement for people who celebrate great-tasting light beer. Now we're taking the Miller Lite revolution to the people to spread the word to those who might still be settling for whatever is handed to them. We want even more consumers to get on board with Miller Lite.

The (symphony) board just decided we didn't have the cash to make payrolls at this point, and we'd better stop.

The sustainability of the American economic expansion is what the Fed is trying to achieve, ... And I think that technology stocks are going to do exactly what the Big Board has done; that is, establish a trading range. Gone is the rampant speculation in technology stocks. Instead, its going to be the cream rising to the top.

The three of them rented boards at the concession at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Seeing no signs, they went into the water.

Scott Weiss

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.

The superintendent and the board and I have been listening to the concerns of the parents. It does not seem like the right fit for the school district.

Christopher Moore

The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.