Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

I think that Greenspan will rank as one of the most effective and innovative Fed chairman that we have had -- a home-run champion.

I think the chairman is telling us where he intends to go, to put it politely.

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

David Davis

Clearly it is an embarrassment that the party rank and file turned down a proposal from the leadership of the rank and file - from the chairman - but that's by the by, we have to deal with that.

Being Fed chairman only increases his value that much more.

I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worked for a former chairman or CEO. This may be the first time that the Sergeant Schultz defense has worked.

Bobby Rush

I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.

Neil Abercrombie

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it,'' I was told.

Tom Johnson

I met J.B. Fuqua in the early '60s. I was then a young reporter and he was the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia,

In keeping with his design to gut our country of national treasures, the chairman has put the home of America's foremost park-maker ... on the list of national parks to be cut, ... He is trying to sell the park-maker's park.

The consumer sector has been on of the strongest in the economy, and that's the sector that (Federal Reserve chairman Alan) Greenspan worries about.

The chairman wanted to get our attention. He has our attention.

The Chairman (over the two days) was surprisingly hawkish, and we should be ready for rate hikes as soon as the data justify them.

Sven Eriksson

The chairman is an old man today. He's sick.

John Scofield

The chairman has been getting earmarks for his district for 25 years ... long before this firm existed.

Harry Redknapp

The good thing is we are still in there and still trying (to sign him). The chairman is working on it and I hope we can get him.

The dollar impact will emerge from whether the Fed Chairman confirms the scaling down in market's expectations of a May rate hike. We deem the Fed to be uncertain as to what it will do in the May meeting as it is far too early for the 'data-dependent' institution to decide.

David Jones

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman . . . the markets could be very unsettled.

All it takes is a courageous chairman who is going to give him a chance, ... I know already there are two or three clubs desperately keen on him.

I want to take full responsibility for my actions, and to that end, I am submitting a letter of resignation as Chairman of the House Regulated Industries Committee to Speaker Glenn Richardson.

It's really not uncommon for the chairman or other executives to visit the factory.

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

Paul Rodriguez

It's a very complex bill, so we're going to take some time to examine it. But we look forward to working with Chairman Barton on these issues.

They do have to resolve some issues eventually, including who's going to be the chairman and for how long. There has to be some kind of indication of what their long-range plans might be with regard to international expansion of theme parks.

David Jones

It is understandable that a new Fed chairman would want to prove his inflation-fighting mettle right away, but I think there is a danger that housing is more vulnerable than people realize.

It's not unusual when a new chairman comes for there to be a number of vacancies at the top.

There was no market whatsoever. There have been no U.S. indicators today that could show us direction, nothing. The market was seeking a motive to move, but it only could digest yesterday's words by (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan.

There seems to be a growing perception that (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan is engineering what has historically been so elusive on Wall Street. And that's a soft landing, which is generally good for stocks.

A new Fed chairman is an unknown and as such offers nervous investors an excuse to sell.

Jim Kolbe

As chairman of the subcommittee responsible for Iraq's reconstruction, I have seen the positive and necessary oversight role a special inspector general plays in monitoring this spending.

Chuck Grassley

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, I look forward to working with the White House and moving quickly in finding a successor,