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The Court delivered a pretty package in a unanimous decision, but the mess inside is left for the future. There is no substantive change in the law. Federal courts and state legislatures will only remain confused over what laws are allowed and what are disallowed.

Clarke Forsythe

They have already decided to get beyond where they left off and move on to the substantive components of the peace treaty.

Geoffrey Kemp

People are more circumspect because of the criminal convictions, but we've had very few substantive reforms.

Robert Mccullough

If there are no substantive comments then the Army will make a decision on which way they're going to go. If there are substantive comments, the Army will have to have time to review them. If there's anything new that comes out, we certainly want to look at it and make sure we're doing the right thing.

Ray Marler

We have a very strong, substantive infrastructure available. Certainly, we're ready.

Bob Herskovitz

I hope these songs impact people's lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people can feel something more substantive and profound, through a beautiful song, like, 'I'll Make Love to You' or 'I Said I Love You', even if for a moment, then I am happy. If they can touch that deeper place and feel a bit of what I felt when I played these songs, then I've done my job.

Kirk Whalum

Gonzales is really the only candidate who satisfies each and every one of the president's substantive criteria.

Brad Berenson

It's my feeling that I was elected, and we were elected, to debate things and to have substantive discussions and to establish reasonable policies. And what I saw (Tuesday) night I felt was at times cheap political showboating.

Mayor Michael Hassig

It is my hope that we will spend more time talking about the substantive needs of schoolchildren than the issue of attaching political blame.

Arlen Specter

What we are expecting from Pakistan is concrete, serious, substantive steps to deal with cross-border terrorism, and the question of terrorists who operate from Pakistan soil.

Nirupama Rao

Democrats in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Washington, Ohio, Missouri and Florida plan to hold press conferences over the next several days to highlight the importance of a substantive discussion on issues affecting all Americans -- national security, homeland security and veterans' issues; education; environment and energy policies; the economy; health care; and equal opportunity for all.

Jeanne Shaheen

I'm not just a politician, ... I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

Roy Romer

As shareholders, we have a lot of questions. But Goldman has not provided substantive responses, either to our letters or at the shareholder meeting.

Tom Borelli

In light of this experience, that is, the absence of full cooperation by Iraq, it must regrettably be recorded again that the commission is not able to conduct the substantive disarmament work mandated to it by the Security Council and, thus, to give the council the assurances it requires with respect to Iraq's prohibited weapons programs.

Richard Butler

If you ask Alabama voters what Lucy Baxley stands for, you'd have a hard time getting a substantive answer. She's going to have to create a definition for herself before her opponents do it for her.

David Lanoue

Palladium is used a lot for electronic purposes -- new usages now that are in the high-tech area. So it has that kind of a very substantive future.

Bette Raptopoulos

We all recognize that we have to make substantive changes. All three of us are committed to making the changes that have to be done, even though some of them cost money.

Dave Gilmour

We look forward to a substantive debate about our past experiences and a vision for the future.

Dan Fee

These numbers show that voters are looking for more than hype and a couple of sound bites from a Senate candidate. They are looking for a credible, substantive and experienced alternative to Senator Clinton. This race is not going to be about good political theater.

Thomas Basile

She does not have to help that man get elected again, and that is very liberating. All first ladies have suffered under that. You know, the American people have all these expectations they voice on the first lady, in which she is supposed to be substantive, but not too substantive.

Ann Gerhart

It is clear Hillary Clinton is more concerned with political attacks than substantive dialogue on how to fight and win the war on terror.

Danny Diaz

That they were very substantive, very graphic, very detailed. If she is making it up, not only is it perjury, but the court will swing the other way and give the kids to Charlie.

Stacy Phillips

The choice to elevate a much younger man might signal not so much an impatience with the current pace of development, but a willingness to make more substantive changes.

James Kelleher

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

Lonnie Bunch

Frankly I think we?re making substantive progress.

Dave Jurgens

This set the real issues aside, it did not solve them. But it prevents gridlock and a collapse of the talks. ... I see it as a positive but not a big substantive move, but it took some movement in the administration to make this happen.

Robert Einhorn

As she said, under Republican rule the House leadership has stifled real and substantive debate, preventing Democrats from offering amendments and engaging in real discussion.

Philippe Reines

Substantive future investments from our federal government must be rooted in the principles of accountability and a clear strategy for building a New South: a New South that is stronger, better, and full of economic opportunities for all citizens.

Mary Landrieu

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

David Bruce

I don't see anything substantive yet.

Barry Cullen

We have demonstrated that prevention works and deserves support, ... Nevertheless, as in most areas of public health, support for prevention is frequently more rhetorical than substantive.

Jeffrey Koplan

If real, substantive change on important issues is what it will take to mute Wal-Mart criticism, then we are happy to be muted.

Nu Wexler

Simply fanning out these people to cover the country isn't going to achieve substantive results. The priority must be given to working with the leadership corps at the provincial and city level, and ensure that their activities are coordinated with the elected representatives, other ministries, and local leaders in their respective area.

Matt Sherman

Democrats will use any excuse to avoid offering the American people an actual agenda. They will go to great lengths to avoid talking about the substantive issues.

Tracey Schmitt

There would be no indication at all that we have the virus in commercial poultry and therefore no substantive basis to impose trade restrictions on poultry and poultry products from the United States.

Ron Dehaven

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Peter Mancuso

The substantive issues facing the university must be addressed without historic rancor from any part.

James Fisher

I am relatively optimistic that by the end of the day there will be statements that we have substantive agreements.

Karl Falkenberg

We are producing some very substantive results.

Randy Clark

Students were aware that there was a risk of arrest for trespassing. That said, we certainly hoped that the university wouldn't respond to the students' actions by arresting them. We were in the midst of what we thought was good faith substantive dialogue.

Abby Bellows

You get a passing visit, but you don't get anything substantive, because Fox knows that Fabian can't do anything. ... He's working at counter purposes with the governor, it seems to me.

Ray Haynes

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, ... The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

Benjamin Wright

This is both a substantive and a stylistic problem for Bush. Stylistically, he needs to convince people that he is in charge now and he gets it now .

Larry Sabato

I respect his (Ramos) opinion but I am standing with the commission?s recommendation. He is entitled to his opinions but we should look at the substantive proposals.

Jose Abueva

My reading [of the legislation] suggests that it doesn't tiptoe, it rushes headlong into substantive areas of assessment law that the county is precluded from doing by the law that set up the whole charter process.

Robert Strauss

As Matt indicated, we essentially looked at the comments and asked which were complete and which were substantive.

Joseph Bridges

One issue is convincing the public that there are entities out there other than the media that really need access to documents, such as people doing substantive research on government.

Linda Lightfoot

There's a real, substantive legal issue here. If she wins, I'm going to get a significant amount of money.

Len Leeds

Nothing that had real substantive punch in the government's original proposal was watered down. The government's filing today is designed to give Microsoft the sense that the process in the remedy phase was carried out correctly, and it provides the judge with ammunition that he could use as a rationale for the measures contained in his final ruling.

William Kovacic

This sham compromise agreement fails to address the primary substantive concern raised by millions of Americans, as well as civil liberties, privacy and business organizations and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and in both chambers.

Caroline Fredrickson

Generally, in a (review), the numbers aren't as important as the substantive issues. It's very hard to utilize if it's not substantive. We look very hard at things that come in from other agencies, like the Corps (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and the EPA.

Joe Foreman

The governor has an ambitious agenda and a lot of exciting ideas. It's important that he communicate those ideas with the people of California directly in a substantive manner.

Adam Mendelsohn

There will definitely be reform. The question is, how far will it go and how substantive is it?

Mary Boyle

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

Leon Panetta

This wasn't a big substantive reconciliation. This was an agreement to set aside a disagreement and move ahead with the talks.

Robert Einhorn

There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel. And it's something I know a lot about, and so I feel like that's the book that I should write.

Ethan Hawke

Emails can be dangerous. You tend to lose your formality and thoughtfulness in emails... It's a fine means of setting up meetings but for substantive purposes, you have to be much more careful of what you're doing and you can't use it for a medium of entertainment in the office.

Eric Rosenberg

Most of the roundtables have been wrapped up in by-laws, but are now moving ahead into substantive stuff and talking about issues. The danger is that the procedural stuff will turn some people off. During the next month or two months, we'll be making the shift from talking about rules and choosing leadership to how we work in a collaborative manner.

Eric Hecox

We're all sitting here waiting for this company to produce earnings from the changes Chuck Conaway has initiated. These changes are going to make a substantive difference. The market believes it. We do too. But it won't start being reflected until we see the hard numbers.

Eric M. Beder

The agreement marks a substantive step in environmental-protection co-operation between China and Russia.

Zhou Shengxian

China firmly supports the WTO talks on the Doha Development Agenda, hoping the imminent Hong Kong meeting will achieve substantive progress.

Zhang Xiangchen