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This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.

Katy Atkinson

If the Legislature enacted every initiative (Doyle) proposed tomorrow, it would be less than $15 million -- out of a $50 billion state budget.

Melanie Fonder

This district has been in the forefront of this initiative. We want to have a public event to let people see what we are doing.

Frank Sadeghi

I applaud you for taking the initiative of starting the acquisition process, and I encourage you to finish it.

Brent Martin

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

This is going to be a costly initiative.

Jane Friedman

I would suspect this would definitely be a private sector initiative.

Brent Thompson

Genius is initiative on fire.

Holbrook Jackson

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Bill Maher

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Chris Evert

I'm doing this on my own initiative. There are other challenges in me.

Arthur Ollman

He really stayed after hours and asked me to come out and throw with him and he really took the initiative. And it's paying off.

Marques Hagans

She took the initiative to enter the contest. I'm very proud of her.

Debbie Sullivan

[The new initiative is] a technology that [will] actually improve the security of a network with every node you put on it, ... the way security [will be] done in the future.

Srivats Sampath

[5. Demonstrate initiative:] Don't just do what you're told all the time, ... Do more.

Robin Ryan

Finally a mentality of seizing the initiative has gained the upper hand over anxiety.

Thomas Reitz

Through this new initiative with Southwest Airlines, we are committed to helping Hispanic students attain a higher education.

San Antonio

Each group of kids use their own creative initiative to figure out how to engineer and design the robot to fulfill the requirements of the challenge.

Bill Larsen

With the implementation of [Residential Communities Initiative], the neighborhoods are starting to get more emphasis.

Col. Scott Larese

We think it will be a very important sales feature and tool for our installed sales initiative.

Mike Tummillo

I am confident that we are going to get the funding to support this initiative.

Claudia Rodriguez

When we set up the youth initiative part of the aim was to try and get new equipment. We applied for the grant and managed to get it, which is pretty brilliant.

Julie Goodwin

He came in when we were behind the eight ball and he took the initiative and turned the pressure from us onto them.

Dwayne Smith

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Frank Herbert

Their polling must be telling them that he's a drag on his own initiative. How have the mighty fallen.

Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

We have a proposal that we feel is very healthy, and even without it we've made significant progress on the initiative.

Robert Ketchum

We're extremely excited about this new initiative.

William Marshall

Here at the Green Design Initiative, we're concerned that most will go to landfills.

Scott Matthews

This initiative will ensure that all town residents with disabilities will be included in our emergency preparedness plan.

Barbara Carpenter

This extends MIT's initiative in distance learning, and allows us to reach far beyond the brick and mortar of our Cambridge campus.

Richard Larson

Our first 24 titles went up an hour ago, and it's a very exciting initiative because although its not a big area now, it will be in the future.

Nigel Newton

It wasn't required. He took the initiative.

David Chadd

The new banking code requires lenders to be more transparent about charges, the OFT research pre-dates this initiative.

Sandra Quinn

One big issue is the faith-based initiative.

Adam Hunter

What this initiative does, it allows government to grow steadily every year and creates a stronger rainy day fund that's harder to get into.

Rick Carpenter

Common Cause has made itself the handmaiden of a partisan political initiative.

Jim Wright

Our investment dollars are focused on this initiative.

Doreen Toben

Our investments are focused on this initiative. We're well on our way to 30 percent penetration in five years.

Doreen Toben

It will be a hotly contested race, and I think the initiative will win.

Chris Fitz

This is an initiative that's going to go on for probably the next 18 months, and it's going to be district-wide.

Bill Person

This is a very good thing for our customers in terms of our Trustworthy Computing initiative.

Ines Vargas

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Stephen Hadley

This initiative fits in perfectly with our program because it fights the language of war with the language of creativity.

Luz Piedad Herrera

This initiative seeks to retain and grow existing companies, give first to new animal health and nutrition ventures, and attract new companies.

Joerg Ohle

This is an initiative that came directly from the carriers, not our safety division. We need to slow down.

Mike Russell

It was an individual initiative. The tribe as an institution did not take the lead here.

Bruce Macdonald

We're pleased we were able to prevent a full-blown, costly, distracting initiative campaign this fall.

Charles Hasse

Yes, there is a symbolic component to this initiative. But although there's a symbolic component, there will be far-reaching benefits to it, and it will make a distinct and tangible difference.

Fred Elbel

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

Wilhelm Steinitz

These are our taxpayer dollars and they're being spent to push an initiative and it very well could have been illegal in this case.

Ned Wigglesworth

This is a major new initiative of the president. It is a major initiative of the Department of Education.

Tom Luce

This initiative allows us to actively engage those at priceless.com in an effective and interactive way.

Amy Fuller

We are thrilled to be part of an initiative that will help Texas employers get back to the job of doing business.

Bill Hammond

We are confident that by executing this initiative, we will enhance our leadership in the mid-market in China.

Lee Thompson

But no one rejected the Russian initiative.

Stanislas De Laboulaye

I am ecstatic. This is the single best initiative for property tax relief.

Sen. David Cappiello

A really nice example of where the faith-based initiative is -- and is not -- likely to run up against legal problems.

Robert Tuttle

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women.

Piero Fassino

The logic supporting this initiative is compelling. The businesses uniquely complement each other.

Maurice Newman

We're very excited about the Open Ajax initiative.

Kevin Hakman

Some are applauding the superintendent for his initiative, and others are against it.

Charles Glover

Never relinquish the initiative.

Charles de Gaulle

We are part of Iowa's initiative to celebrate voting.

Julie Snyder

We're pretty much hand-in-glove with Customs and Border Protection every day in this initiative.

Dean Boyd

That is why it?s called people?s initiative ? because such moves emanate from the people.

Raul Lambino

UTOPIA is a much bigger initiative. Right now, we don't have anything like that.

Sara Rutter

That was over the line. A blatant effort to promote the initiative.

Don Perata

Hopefully, it can give that much more initiative to make national championships on a regular basis.

Richard Berg

I think it is a great initiative.

John Dean

This initiative aims to marry the best of drug industry practice with academic excellence in a university environment.

Mike Ferguson

We can't wait for someone else. We have to take the initiative. The world is changing, and we all have to change along with it.

Milton Smith

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.

Robert Bohn

You'd have to first have a legislative initiative to change the rules. Right now, it would be a very, very tough thing to put forth.

Ray Golden

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Louis D. Brandeis

This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Stephen Hadley

It's his own initiative and I'm sure he'll do the right thing.

Joe Volpe

I expect this to be a significant area of ballot initiative in 2006.

Kristina Wilfore

This is a good initiative to resolve the situation.

Gholamreza Ansari

Our hope with this initiative is to establish some cohesion to the existing activities that will allow us to have more impact.

Catherine Peters

Any peaceful initiative is beneficial.

Dmitry Yakushkin

This is a key safety-enhancing initiative.

Carol Hallett

We are very fortunate with the Stanford initiative, that among the things he has set out is the procurement of these coaching aids.

Jackie Hendriks

Notice carefully that sound judgment must precede the exercise of initiative.

Charles Gow

It was a great match. Those two always have epic battles. It was good to see him take the initiative and get the win.

Joe Horvath

I'm certainly glad we can continue this important public health initiative while all of this work takes place.

Renee Cox

I am a bit of a shoe freak. I am excited about this shoe. I am a runner and anytime I can help an initiative like the Terry Fox Foundation is great. I will never use them to run though.

Mark Burgess

This city is going to be for those who have vision and initiative, because it's wide open. It has to. We are special, and we have to come back.

Ben Carter

The level of excitement around this initiative is something we haven't seen in a while.

Tom Healy

Hardly anyone picked out an initiative and said, 'This one interests me.' .

Mark Baldassare

When this initiative fails, the legislature which is controlled by liberals will revoke it.

Cliff Nellis

We've been working on this initiative now going on five years. We crafted it in a way we think appeals to all Nevadans.

Neal Levine

That group determined that the data supports the need for a math initiative.

Stephanie Weideman

They are doing something that benefits the community, the environment. They are taking the initiative to make a difference.

Lindsay Martin

This is an initiative of the people, and a lot of times the politicians don't want to do the will of the people.

Cliff Nellis

There's much more to differentiation. That will be a large initiative next year.

George Zimmer

I appreciate the response by many local governments to the initiative.

Mao Qun'an

This is a magnificent initiative because it is very important to build and enlarge the links between Americans and Europeans, ... Through cultural and artistic links, people can discover one another's attractions.

Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

It's really a bold initiative. However, budget constraints could stop us once again. And that's my fear.

David Lawson

We certainly expect as this initiative expands there's going to be some opportunities for people as well.

Lee Rainey

We see this as a much larger initiative that will spread across the country.

Jason Enos

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

The initiative is designed to try to sow fear into our communities.

Michael Ramos

This is an exhausted administration. It's going to be very hard for [them] to come out with a big new initiative.

Michael Tanner

Virtual building is a huge technical initiative this year for us.

Gregg Davis

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Eddie Murphy

We're simply supporting an initiative that has a better chance of winning.

Eric Schippers

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Elbert Hubbard