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Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

At this point, it's so uncertain ... that it would be foolish to speculate on a date.

Bill Gerstenmaier

It's kind of hard to speculate on something that is so up in the air. I don't know how different (the 2008 primary) will be, or even if it will be different.

Ray Buckley

We're working to resolve this serious dispute. If Venezuela proceeds with its announced plans, we will consider options for an appropriate response, but we will not speculate about what might happen at this time.

Noel Clay

None of that information has been tested either through investigation or cross examination. I hope the public wouldn't speculate or make up their minds.

Lisa Dubs

It's not necessarily to speculate on rates at this level. It's more risk management.

Mustafa Chowdhury

All I would say is the talks are constructive and progress has been made. But I'm not going to speculate on how close an agreement is. In my experience in talks like these, close and near are awfully subjective terms.

Paul Krell

We can't speculate on this investigation further.

Jennifer Freeman

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

Bob Costas

We don't want to speculate on any possibilities until our analysis is complete.

Henry Franke

It's certainly not too soon to speculate on a successor to Mori and I'd rate Hashimoto a 40 percent chance of taking the job.

Richard Gibbs

It's hard to speculate if that will happen and I don't want to mislead anyone, but we have had several instances this year when PGA Tour players weren't exempt for that week and came to Nationwide events instead.

Mike Stevens

Is not clear what is causing these disparities and we were not able to assess those aspects in this particular study. We can only speculate that it might be due to a lack of resources such as transportation, daycare or health centers in deprived areas.

Dr. Geetanjali Datta

For a variety of reasons we can speculate on, he didn't make it into the Hall of Fame. But unquestionably, those who remained in football and knew of him and who knew football, they were all confident he would get in the Hall.

Bill Mckenna

They are a customer of ours right now as well and it's safe to say that this is going to grow significantly, but it will be difficult to speculate on that.

Michael Sadler

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Maria Mulock

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Benjamin Graham

I can't speculate on what the report will tell. Once we receive the report, the decisions will be made.

Lanedra Carroll

What I saw was a connecting problem with a number of the pieces of evidence, which is the level of speculation you have to rely on to make it relevant. That was true with Ratliff – you had to speculate he was responsible for it. It was true with their evidence about material on the computer – you had to speculate that (Kathleen Peterson) found it and speculate that it led to a fight.

Thomas Maher

We speculate that some, if not most, of these acts of mischief may relate to a non-sanctioned grad rally.

Sgt. Paul Skelton

It's just too early on their end to even speculate.

Bob Burda

It's hard to understand, but I can only speculate that the jury compromised. Still, how can you find someone guilty of possessing something and not storing it?

Stephan Seeger

What we're looking for is to see if there are any safety issues that the FAA needs to address through some sort of action. Right now, it's too premature to speculate on any cause of action or the cause of the accidents.

Les Dorr

Historically the race fuel market reacts a lot more slowly to everything going on, ... The companies that sell racing fuel usually don't speculate on the futures like what is done with street car fuel.

John Holland

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Glen Mathison

We are going to be looking at this, but I can't speculate what might happen further down the line.

Maurice Healy

All managers carry a crisis binder, a checklist of what you need to do. The very first thing the company does is account for their customers and employees. Once that process was done, what we want you to know are the facts. We never speculate.

David Castelveter

We're still talking. Though we want to get it finished soon, I just can't speculate on when it's going to be.

Dan Flores

I can't really speculate on what the outcome of the budget will be other than stay tuned.

John Cape

There's nowhere you can go, because you don't know what the situation will be. It's hard to speculate. You have to be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. We don't know the specifics as to where we stand. It's all speculation at this point.

Kevin Colbert

It's hard to speculate about the behavior of fossils, but these animals had strong fins and a mobile neck, and I think there's a very good chance that these were also good terrestrial feeders.

Sam Van Wassenbergh

We don't want to speculate but if a person is deceased, another injured and a fire going on at the same time, we're going to treat it as a crime scene.

Roger Wade

I don't really want to speculate on why individual seniors have had problems.

Jon Sherwood

It's a bad thing to even speculate about. I don't want to cause any more grief for those people right now. It isn't the right thing to do.

Pat Lynch

We are not investigating it as criminal. (But), I can't speculate as to what might have happened.

Gail Tierney

We don't speculate on financial performance. As a company we remain ready to ship Vista when it's available and are excited to do so.

Tom Kehoe

(The Department of Pesticide Regulation) could appeal it. They could go back and change the regulations. They could go back and consult with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Maybe that would come to agreement on what numbers to use. There are just so many ways that this could play out that I can't speculate on what may happen.

Bob Roach

We can't speculate until we've heard the text of statehouse legislation. We will always take a hard look at what local legislators have to say.

Nayyera Haq

Maybe some representatives or senators are connected to that in some way, but I wouldn't know and can't speculate on that.

Lisa Jennings

There has been a lot of progress in that regard in the last two, three years. I can only speculate on the motives of the donor. But it would seem to me that this is an affirmation that, whomever it was, saw an opportunity to help us with the advances that have been made here at the hospital.

Tom Hill

Preparing the world for a pandemic flu outbreak is a top priority, and we're looking at various options in stockpiling drugs and vaccine. But there are a lot of issues, and it's too early to speculate about this right now.

Christina Pearson

All you can do is speculate right now.

Cal Saunders

You take that as a challenge. I don't think in the history, until the end of time, it's going to be 0-1,000. I guess eventually it has to happen, a win. Whether we're going to do it or not, I don't think I'm going to speculate.

Tyler Azzarelli

I really don't want to speculate, but it's probably fairly obvious for us.

John Lang

Actually, it's too early to speculate. We do have some long-term commitments to some organizations. We'll have to see how that plays out.

Jeff Cole

We think there is an enormous market here, ... It allows people to manage everyday risks in their life and to speculate.

Russell Andersson

The guy has gone out of his way to do good for the game and his country. I think it's wrong for people to speculate when no facts have been put forward.

Randy Gilhen

At this point, I can't really speculate whether this is a civil rights incident or a hate crime.

John Price

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Mark Twain

Since the terrorist attacks are so fresh and our country's response is not yet known, it is premature to make definitive judgments about the economy. We can only speculate based upon what we think the administration will do and how consumers will respond.

Rosalind Wells

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

Simon Langford

I'm trying not to speculate. A lot of people are speculating wildly about what happened and then in an e-mail you find out it's wrong.

Joe Walsh

We will look at every business opportunity as it comes forward. At this time it's just too early to speculate on what we may or may not choose to do related to the Livermore contract.

Wendy Owen

I would hesitate to speculate on how long that would take, because I just don't know how much follow-up and additional information might be generated when we take a look at it.

Ron Dehaven

Clearly you can speculate that 4.75 percent is not the end of Federal Reserve tightening and there is a good argument now that they go to five percent. People don't want to be dollar short at the moment.

Michael Klawitter

While we do not know for sure, we speculate that Viagra's recent use as a 'drug of abuse' may have caused the FDA to request broader studies in (non-erectile dysfunction) patients.

Todd Nelson

I generally don't like to speculate on what they're going to do. It's a fairly safe bet that they'll pass the ban. But it's no forgone conclusion.

Mike Burner

We can only speculate how she eventually died. Was everyone from the hamlet there? Was there a priest there? We don't know.

Jaap Brakke

It's just too early for me to speculate on that and until we have gone through out 30 to 60-day process, I really don't wanna create any false expectation.

David Swift

We just started the investigation, ... I wouldn't want to speculate if he was killed at the scene or somewhere else.

Danny Simon

They can't make a determination or even speculate what the cause of death is until after the medical examiner completes the autopsy.

Toni Chovanetz

We are waiting for Republic management to update us. Until we know the facts, it's hard to speculate. The most important thing is getting a swift appraisal of what happened, how it happened, and what it means.

Richard Beck

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

Chuck Sigars

At this point, it's just too early to speculate.

Bob Burda

It's one thing to surmise what happened, but we don't speculate on that until ballistics confirms what happened.

John Hansen

We both weren't in the room when this purported transaction was allegedly transpiring, so it's difficult to speculate.

Chris Hammond

The government has skimmed over a lot of holes in the case and asked you to speculate. It's woefully lacking.

Aaron Woods

We don't want to speculate, but certainly it's not beyond any reality that the person or persons involved in this would have numerous vehicles that they could be using.

Charles Moose

I can't speculate on when we'll have it. It could be any day, it could be a month. We'll launch it when we get it.

Rob Howard

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

William Barclay

There will be a short-term negative effect on the Taiwan dollar as people start to speculate who the next premier will be and how that will affect economic reform.

Lo Chung

Yields can go higher. People are starting to speculate on the effect the commodity rally will have and if inflation starts to pick up that will hurt bonds.

Karsten Linowsky

One of the things we take into account is the future of the game. But I don't want to speculate because we are talking about a hypothetical situation.

Colin Love

It's a signal to folks that it's going to happen. They're very careful not to speculate about things that aren't going to happen.

Walter Mcmanus

We don't want to speculate. There's a lot of parts moving around and bags being shipped. Things happen. That's not to say we're not going to investigate.

David Castelveter

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

William Cotton

We can only speculate there was a major rift in his relationship with Vladimir Romanov.

John Borthwick

I don't want to speculate, because I haven't heard from him, ... But it's not too late (for Benson) to step up to the plate and be the good citizen.

Tim Coulon

One could speculate that in countries that are war-torn, those services might diminish.

Christopher P. Howson

It's doesn't hurt to speculate on bringing it to the U.S. market, but I don't think there's a chance they'll do it. I would put it in the failure camp. Commercially, financially, its didn't fulfill the hopes the company has had for it.

Stephen Reitman

It's too early to speculate on what the implications might be.

Tracy Bower

I don't know why this is going on. I can only speculate. But it is something that should be a very reasonable and controlled process -- an examination into regulatory compliance. Suddenly, we're looking at something that's just out of all proportion.

James Ryan

This is a license to speculate.

Peter Defazio

It's natural at my age that people will speculate on when I will retire. I'm not going to make any public statements on when I will retire until I meet with the president.

Jim Copeland

It's too early to speculate on any draft strategy.

Ron Colangelo

At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish for us to try to speculate on a particular launch date.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We can only speculate that this is a classic case of 'buyer's remorse,' because there is clearly no basis for Tyson's claim that it was fraudulently induced and does not have to proceed with this transaction.

Robert Peterson

As of now, there are no problems that we can identify, but I really have no comment on that. I'm not going to speculate before the election. ... We need to remain strictly neutral.

Karl Dean

Some witnesses have given us information that leads us to say that could be a possibility. Until we get confirmation from a doctor, though, we can't speculate.

Capt. Chuck Moad

If you're interested in real estate -- if you want to speculate a little -- invest along the I-5 corridor. You can't go wrong.

Neil Hummel

I don't have an answer and I won't even speculate. I don't want to go out if I'm incapable of playing to my ability due to injury. I look forward to being as close to 100 percent as I can be so I can be the type of player I can be.

Jayson Werth

Ricky is under contract to the Dolphins, and we're not going to speculate about any hypothetical speculation.

Harvey Greene

This is not an issue that can be just set aside and placed on the shelf. This is a true emergency. I think rather than speculate about what is or isn't going to happen we put the pedal to the metal.

Anna Eshoo

There also were times before and after board meetings when I would see them out in the hall. They're allowed to do that. I can't say they can't socialize, but I could only speculate with the turmoil going on on the board they weren't just out there talking about the weather.

Linda Huber

The church has no records that identify them. We could only speculate. We know who's not there. For example, we know the church's founder, Jones Douglass, is not there, because he's buried somewhere else.

Rick Beggs

We are always evaluating ways to right-size our company, but we can't speculate on the details of those plans.

Claire Hassett

I can't even speculate right now and I don't even want to get into it because it's going to lead to a whole other conversation.

Danny Barrett

Until we get more information, it's going to be tough for me to speculate on what his deal is. I have got to get more specific information before I start putting people in the water [to search for a body].

Sgt. Richard Ring

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

Dave Hughes

As for the Triple Crown, I won't speculate. I never imagined she'd be running two weeks in a row let alone three in a row.

John Messara

I'm not going to speculate, either.

David Fay

I'm going to be driven by the evidence, ... I wouldn't want to speculate how far up, what I haven't heard anybody suggest, that this was some sort of rouge operation by one individual operating outside the control or direction of the Libyan external security organization.

Neil Gallagher

They can speculate all they want, but they do not know. Nobody knows.

Fred Standish

We are not going to speculate on what may happen. The only certainty of next week is that the generators will continue to charge high prices for the power they sell to California.

Aaron Lowe

It is better the law should be certain, than that every Judge should speculate upon improvements in it.

John Scott

It's too early in the investigation to speculate how much of this mischief was caused by those associated to the non-sanctioned rally, and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone that participated in that rally committed criminal acts. We're trying to sort out who organized the rally and what they can tell us about who was responsible for these acts of mischief.

Sgt. Paul Skelton

I have some ideas why he didn't run very well, but I don't want to speculate.

Barclay Tagg

Obviously, everyone here has a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and any network would be lucky to have his skills. But it's premature to speculate.

Sandra Genelius

We can't speculate how long it will be in place. Given current trends with fuel, it'll be natural to believe it'll be in place for some time.

Greg Rossiter

We don't know what the motive of this act is at this time, ... This was a senseless murder. We have some ideas of what may have happened but we don't want to speculate.

Michael Hunt

We speculate that our brains can compensate for up to a 60 percent loss of pre-Boetzinger cells, but the cumulative deficit of these brain cells eventually disrupts our breathing during sleep. There's no biological reason for the body to maintain these cells beyond the average lifespan, and so they do not replenish as we age.

Jack Feldman

While it is convenient to speculate whether or not the talks this week are driven by the visit is not the case at all.

John Stubbs

I wouldn't like to speculate on how much money it would cost us, but I know it would be substantial.

Ehsan Mani

The market will start to speculate whether the latest [China rate] rise is the first of a series.

Eddie Wong