Famous Quotes & Sayings

With the U.S. slowdown looking more real each day, the trade deficit may have passed its peak. The slowdown hadn't hit full force yet in October. U.S. consumers are still sucking in massive amounts of imports. The slowdown will be more clearly seen in November and December's figures. If imported goods start to pile up on retailers' shelves this holiday season, imports could drop off fast.

With the takeover offer open, the results are less relevant now, but it's clear that from an operating point of view things are going well, especially with regard to the top line.

Pat Toomey

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

Mario Andretti

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

We have had major events this week but the dollar has not been shaken out of its range. The market is not ready to make a move until it has a clearer picture of the Fed's plans.

My clients, before I was retained, made it very clear that I'm not representing them. I'm representing the community of Louisville.

Most have been released, but it is not clear how many.

Most Americans have clearly given up on the idea that the operation in Iraq will have a Hollywood-style ending and are looking for a way out.

Tom Daschle

merely replacing Secretary O'Neill and Lindsey is not a solution. With our economy stalling, unemployment rising and confidence suffering, it is clear that we need more than new faces. We need a new plan to stimulate our economy now.

(Microsoft) clearly gets where the focus of the competition needs to be.

Wholesale prices are going nowhere. We don't have deflation, but clearly there is no reason to expect prices to jump.

William Hill is clearly being pulled up by today's FT story about Ladbrokes.

Who is trying to provoke (the) situation? Clearly those in Miami that are making good money with the lives of individuals. People have died.

We just want to send a clear message to our Congress and Senate that they really have to rework the immigration system because it's broken.

We just cleared out all the stuff and started playing here.

You can clearly see from the turnout and from the questions that people really want to see this work. A lot of people that were here today felt like Quincy should be one of the pilot sites, and given the turnout I think it should be.

We continue to see very rapid economic growth which has been a problem for the Fed all along. We have not seen a material increase in labor costs and that's what I think is going to be the ultimate problem in the economy somewhere down the road, though clearly it's not imminent.

We can't expect that lesbians in Macon and Gainesville will come to our weekly support groups. And it's not realistic to think we can raise enough money for satellite offices, even though there is a clear need.

Javier Solana

I stress that there has been no decision on the follow-on force, ... We need to look clearly at the mission size.

I think it will spark a lot of outrage. Clearly much of his high-level pay is due to the high price of gas.

I think longer term the prognosis is not good, many will have to pull out because clearly the discount dockets have been a great success.

George H. W. Bush

I think I've got to do better in making clear what the message is, and I think I can do better. But I think there's so much noise out there that I've got to figure out how to make it clearer that we are for the things that I have advocated that would help.

Phil Garner

I thought he was going to be able to pitch, but it clearly swelled up on him. I think it was probably a little factor in the game in the way he was trying to work with it.

Erik Morales

I thought I won clearly the first time and will do so again.

It is clear we are not where we want to be.

It is clear to me that the statute takes away any of my discretion as a member of that commission to extend the deadline.

It is clear to me that the eighth elementary is going to have to happen.

It is clear this is going to trigger a lot of voting that might not have otherwise occurred.

It is clear they (Bush and Blair) knew they weren't going to find any evidence (of nuclear weapons) through inspection. The memo is significant because it indicates the clear indecision of the decision-making process.

It is clear there is tremendous confidence in these systems by operators around the globe.

It is clear there is more than one option to form the next government.

It is cynical. He is clearly exploiting this male-female issue in a media-savvy way that plays into his desire to be seen as a reformer but belittles the role of women.

I think this is clearly the Fed saying 'we're willing to take out an insurance policy, we're not willing to risk recession',