Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Stewart

to show what Martha Stewart Living was really all about to the broadest possible audience, the kind of executive that I really am and the kind of work we do.

We don't think the national security issue trumps the defendant's rights to get this information that is in the possession of the Executive Branch.

Michael Parenti

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Joe Roth

I'm no longer interested in having executives supervise other people. I want everyone to be doing their own work.

Howard Dean

if the president wants to get this nomination through, with all the flak he's getting from the right wing, he needs to waive executive privilege.

It was a unanimous vote by the executive committee. It was 100 percent. It didn't take five seconds to vote.

Arlen Specter

It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.

J. Reuben Clark

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

Larry Ellison

In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

If you really slash executive compensation and perks too much, there will be inclination for people to want to leave.

Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.

James Burrows

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

The most positive thing about this executive order is that the government is practicing what it's preaching.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

David Souter

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

real CEO, an executive officer. We want him to start to leverage outside more, we want him to get into his networks he has. ... He is still in charge.

These are not people who are in management. Most likely it would be a sales executive who had a great year and is reaping the rewards for it.

Orrin Hatch

And it's not fair to even raise executive sessions after we've had two private meetings.

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Shirley Franklin

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

William J. Brennan

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.