John Allison
John Allison
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It takes a long time to work through them and get enough evidence to do what we need to do. There (are) some pockets of the state that we're concerned with.
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I have this overwhelming desire to meet my genetic offspring. We'd rent a boat, we'd go fishing. I'd answer anything they had to say.
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You've got to work at it, ... I'm working up here, too.
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I think you blacked out for a little bit there,
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Given that our first quarter is usually negatively affected by a number of seasonal factors, I am encouraged that these positive results reflect a very good start to 2006.
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The value system we have at BB&T is also my personal value system.
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The word got out that this is a nice tournament. People know they're treated in fine fashion when they come down, and it's good competition.
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If it's too good to be true, something's wrong.
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BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.
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The idea that a citizen's property can be taken by the government solely for private use is extremely misguided, in fact it's just plain wrong.
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One of the most basic rights of every citizen is to keep what they own. As an institution dedicated to helping our clients achieve economic success and financial security, we won't help any entity or company that would undermine that mission and threaten the hard-earned American dream of property ownership.
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We continue to look, but the problem is the market price. There are companies interested in selling, but they have such high expectations that when you run the numbers, you can't match the market price in many cases. It doesn't make any economic sense to me.
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We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.
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We're programming these agents to have knowledge about the battlespace,