Famous Quotes & Sayings

David H. Murdock

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

Bill Taylor

We have the party chair from every state. If you can demonstrate the security of doing that at the Democratic National Convention, why can't we do this somewhere else?

Dennis Ross

We have been working and there will be a meeting tonight between the prime minister and the chairman at Erez,

Most of the people of the public education community felt we had a Public Education chair who didn't have a lot of respect for public education employees.

Will has done an outstanding job as the chairman of the competition committees and rules. The Masters owes him a debt of gratitude for his many years of tireless and exemplary service.

Anita Hill

Why was it important to come forward? ... I felt that he showed a personal indifference to the issue in his own behavior. But more importantly I thought it showed how he dealt with issues of power generally and his use of power -- in terms of intimidating me, and as it turns out other women on his staff. And how he viewed women generally, which would impact his role as a Supreme Court Justice as it had impacted his role as the chairman of the EEOC,

Whoever is chosen, the new chairman will go through a proving period.

Laurence Meyer

When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over. Everybody knew what the chairman would be in favor of.

Just knowing who the new Fed chair is going to be is good for the market.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Robert Kiyosaki

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Bill Belichick

I wish all there was to it was to take a chair and throw it into a blackboard or something and then all of a sudden, everything is (fine). I don't think that's really the answer.

I will welcome any humanitarian gesture extended to chairman Nur if his plea for medical treatment due to his physical condition meets the favorable consideration of the court.

Fernando Ferrer

You have supported right-wing politicians, including the chairman of your own campaign, Mike, who voted for that disgraceful piece of legislation.

David Rosenberg

We're not sure what to make of the fact that we find out from a reporter about comments that the Fed chairman made at a dinner two days earlier.

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

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I would be nervous about picking an inflation-targeting champion as my next Fed chairman given the potential impact on employment growth.

Chris is ready for this. I told him the greatest distance is that 18 inches from the assistant's chair to the head coach's seat. But he understands his responsibilities and what he has to do.

Mona Simpson

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

Muqtada al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?

I enjoyed watching her make it. I'd sit in this chair (in their living room) and watch her.

Ken Jenkins

For the time frame that Ralph was the party chair, there is no doubt that the party chairman in general wielded a lot of power, and they wielded it a lot differently than I do today and we have done in the past few years. We don't do things the same way that we used to do.

For whatever reason, if it doesn't happen and he's playing in New York or Anaheim or whatever, he's still going to be a White Sox, part of the family, ... I told Paul that I could see him one day sitting in Ozzie's chair or my chair. I think that much of him.

John Davidson

To get a real turnaround you need to have a turnaround in earnings. The jobless claims number today probably keeps (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan on task in terms of lowering rates.

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

He is the comrade around whom the party people can coalesce. He should be chairman for life.

Jennifer Dunn

He justbrought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,'Remember what Ronald Reagan would say on this issue,' and it was done.

He wishes he were here. This chair is the source of a lot of pride for him.

He had the greatest nickname of any pitcher -- 'The Chairman of the Board'.