Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fernando Ferrer

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

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

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.

None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Ed Rollins

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

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?

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.

Brian Kennedy

If the chairman could have loaded the family into a helicopter to go to all of these meetings and all of these parks for $5,000, he would have.

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

If they refuse, in my opinion, Chairman Barnett should remove them. The employees and taxpayers have suffered enough.

Lawrence Summers

If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.

Chairman Young has long been the construction foreman for our united efforts in Washington.

Graeme Souness

My intention is to have a word with the chairman and extend Lee's contract until the end of this season,

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

Mike Tyson

Standing in front of Chairman Mao's remains, I felt really insignificant. To have the chance to visit the memorial hall is a great honor for me.

Howard Wilkinson

My point of view as chairman of the League Managers' Association is we would hope that English contenders for the position have got more than a head start.

That was new evidence to me and it was very helpful. Coming from the chairman of the tribe, we found that to be very compelling.

I was particularly pleased to hear the chairman recognize the economic impact on the community was exacerbated by the rural installation Ellsworth is.

I would like to say how very pleased I am to be able to spend this day in North Carolina, ... I would like to thank the chairman for inviting me.

I would like the opportunity to discuss what happened with the board. I have called Chuck Hunter, who is chairman of the board, but he's never called me back.

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.

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.

I don't think having your former chairman become vice president is going to hurt your company, if that were to come to be,

I can confirm that we have been discussing with the chairman of Tata himself over the setting up of a Tata motor-assembly plant.

Comfortable is not a word we'd use to describe our relationship with the chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

Andrew Gray

Our focus has been on having a hearing and putting the Senate in a position to move on the nomination prior to the expiration of Chairman Greenspan's term,