Over the longer term, Chris Bell is building a new foundation of statewide growth that will raise sufficient money to win in November.

Jason Stanford

Mining and resource stocks will be in the spotlight this week as another round of iron-ore pricing negotiations is due - which would provide short-term volatility and price fluctuations for the market.

Neill Pickering

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Robert Barbera

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Peter Marshall (cn Rail)

In that case, the appreciation of the home builds equity in the property, instead of monthly principal payments, ... Of course, it's still a good idea to make principal reduction payments if the home is a long-term investment.

Joe Tucker

It was a short-term solution, maybe not the best one, but a short-term solution nonetheless, ... We had the three of us to triple-check so we knew that all of the flyers had the disclaimer on them. All the flyers we passed out had the label on them.

William Watson

Hopefully, it's a long-term situation, where we stay united and control our own destiny.

Allen Floyd

GM clearly benefited from the industry volumes being on the high side. We expect things to be on a brisk pace, but think Ford may be better positioned for the long term.

Nick Lobaccaro

As long as people work when there's work available, we have no long-term plan to change our benefit program.

Joann Weber

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

David Winters

If you had to replace the ethanol used today with crude oil, there would be at least a 30 percent increase in the cost of gasoline, ... Because ethanol is sold under long term contracts under a fixed price, the ethanol being put into gasoline today is the same price as it was three months ago.

Monte Shaw

By choosing to act preemptively, before inflation becomes strong, the ECB is clearly looking to reducing short-term volatility to keep rates in growth-friendly territory.

Lena Komileva

Most unfortunately, this looks like a long-term construction process for any one of the cities affected.

Tom Kennedy

In any event, we continue to believe that a voluntary near-term bankruptcy for GM/GMAC is of very low probability. We continue to believe that the biggest risk arguably would be a UAW strike at Delphi...our sense currently is that a significant labor disruption at Delphi remains a remote likelihood.

Peter Nesvold

I would not be surprised to see a short-term correction of the dollar. Strong Japanese economic data could be used as an excuse to buy back the yen.

Takehiko Jimbo

Still, we may see rebounds in the afternoon on bargain-hunting by long-term buyers in construction, energy, and brokerage stocks that decline significantly.

Padermpob Songkroh

So far, his views about the long term seem rather nebulous.

Adauto Lima

Completion of this acquisition adds a number of strategic benefits to the partnership, including additional fee-based revenue under long-term contracts.

David Kyle

Over the long term, it will be very good for New Hampshire.

Charles Bass

The staff is discussing it internally. I would expect the commission to decide in the near-term if an extension is warranted and if so, for how long.

David Shillman

Short-term traders are disappointed after they'd hoped for a large upward revision.

Brad Stephens

It wasn't the intent of term limits to make things run smoothly at the Capitol. It was the intent to make things run smoothly in citizens' lives.

Pat Anderson

It really comes down to who's listening to audio streams today and how often. Many of us listen to radio in the car; in the long term I think that's where streaming radio is going.

Bryan Ma

Prior Time Warner directors are going to be looking askance at recommendations coming from these five because they come in with the Icahn agenda. Their interest is in short-term price performance.

Fred Lane

We now think that (U.S.) crude oil could reach $61 before a meaningful sell-off occurs. Long-term price patterns point to even higher prices.

Morgan Stanley

This study demonstrates that even a short-term exposure to dogs has beneficial physiological and psychosocial effects on patients who want it.

Kathie Cole

We want FORT to be a long-term entity. Right now, the focus is schools because the chance of losing accreditation is very real.

Anne Difrancesco

Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is increasing short-term interest rates in hopes of starving off inflation and making longer-term interest rates more attractive. This is still an unbelievable situation. We have a buyers' market with historically low interest rates.

Gregory Smith

Our performance this quarter demonstrated once again that our focus and execution on long-term financial priorities translates to sustained profitable growth and a strong competitive advantage.

Dennis Powell

It's difficult. We need to boost the competitiveness of Hong Kong workers. That could be done by education but that's a medium-term solution.

Tai Hui

On a medium-term basis, the market senses the New Zealand dollar is overvalued. The market is worried about a substantial slow down in New Zealand growth.

Jonathan Prince

We have even proven to you that it was not 'planted,' for lack of a better term.

Marcia Clark

In the short term these results are sustainable but probably not in the long term.

Jerome Schupp

We can say this trend is being driven by foreigners and that higher rates in the United States will complicate the short-term outlook.

Oscar Campos

Treasury yields above 4.5 percent look attractive. Some people may take it as a short-term opportunity to get in.

Toshihiko Sakai

There will be a period in the middle where people will say it's not happening quick enough, ... But I'm comfortable with that; I'm here for the long term.

Neville Isdell

But over time, it has proven to be a prudent investment for just about everyone. If you view it as a long-term home for your business and you plan to be there a long time, a periodic drop in value won't affect you.

Barbara Morrison

It's short-term pain for long-term gain.

Charles Peabody

With troops in combat, the Congress has a non-negotiable obligation to weigh in heavily on the side of immediate and near-term needs of the military, particularly the Army. In some cases, this means cutting funds from pie-in-the-sky programs that may work out down the road and funding things that we know work today.

Neil Abercrombie

Now, everything will be tested. The only thing that one can say with certainty is that in the short term we're going to see a lot of uncertainty.

Shai Feldman

Short term price trends will continue to largely depend on gold.

Yingxi Yu

Brace yourself as a wave of earnings estimate revisions and lots of confusion may be headed your way. (In) the near term, the impact may be painful.

David Zion

You can get rid of those utility bills. They have no long-term value. As soon as we throw them away, it's a relief.

Deniece Schofield

But as ever, there is a failure to translate this across, because Europe is lacking a long-term strategy for health care covering drug development and device development that is funded over the long time scales involved in getting new drugs to market.

Ruth Duncan

Short-term, (the Fed's move) was priced into the markets.

John Forelli

In the short term, we want to make that intersection at Cherry Hill and Newburgh user friendly and this will be a tool to help do that.

Bruce Thompson

In the near term, there is a bit of support for the front end, due to these weaker numbers.

Cyril Beuzit

Over the past twelve months, we have taken aggressive steps to position theglobe.com for a turnaround or business combination dependant on a rebound in the online advertising sector, but the sector remains severely depressed and there are few signs of a rebound in the near-term.

Charles Peck

We do have a little time, but not much. . . . If we don't get a serious program in place for the long term in this second post-Kyoto phase, we will simply not make it and we will be crossing limits which will basically produce impacts that are unacceptable.

Michael Oppenheimer

At this point in the property cycle there is a much larger group of long-term renters than there has been for 15 or 20 years.

Harley Dale

We appreciate the contributions they've made to reducing labor costs so far, and we look forward to working with them to ensure the long-term health of the airline.

Bill Mellon

The Zapatistas have hit a brick wall. The way forward for them is to get more legal recognition so they can get themselves into the system in the long term.

Miguel Alvarez

Racially balanced isn't the term that our board uses but it does have a policy that clearly states that when we do a redistricting we should not affect the diversity of a school any more than is necessary when drawing a line.

Jay Dillon

There is a medication that is effective, and remains effective in slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease. We finally have a medication to treat the condition that is effective not only over the short term but over the long term.

Barry Reisberg

Normally, this time of year is good for the market. You have portfolio managers making end-of-the-year moves, you have a global economy continuing to recover, and in the short term, you have some relief that there was no terrorism attack over the holidays.

Robert Long

This involves short-term working memory, multitasking. These kinds of abilities get the biggest boost.

Arthur Kramer

Next term, there would be an incumbent district attorney and most people like to serve at least two terms. Effectively, I'm taking myself out of the picture for eight years.

Gregory Skordas

We've come to realize that the current arrangement may not be financially viable over the long term.

Don Lindburg

I would like to complete his term and finish what he began and make sure everything he stated is done the way he wanted.

Virginia Coppola

There is a concern out there that the problems may be a little bit deeper than a one time or a few weeks of sale issue. There may be some general concern about the longer-term growth potential of the company is in the face of a major transition to digital technology.

Jonathan Rosenzweig

That's a priority in the immediate term.

Blake Irving

Our corporate costs escalated over these last few years. But that's a short-term problem that will straighten itself out.

Isadore Sharp

There's not one energy or utility stock that meets our standards of continuous long-term business performance.

Bob Millen

Right now sentiment is all loaded on one side of the market. It gives you the idea we're running late in the game -- we may be in the process of putting in a short-term top in the market.

Paul Nolte

The destruction wrought by Katrina and Rita may reduce growth somewhat in the short run, but the longer-term growth trajectory remains in place.

Ben S. Bernanke

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Rod Smyth

I think it's a good deal for shareholders longer term. The BN shareholders are disappointed because the premium is pretty far down the road. But rail growth today is coming from expanded networks.

Terry Gardner

The narrowness of the market is troubling and that probably means that the short-term is not going to be all that exciting and that's what leads me to the conclusion that, while 10,000 is a milestone, it does not herald the next leg up in the bull market.

Scott Wittman

He agreed to stay out of the adult Web site business for the term of his probation.

Larry Walters

I think longer term the prognosis is not good, many will have to pull out because clearly the discount dockets have been a great success.

David Cummings

Freedom is a relative term. The women there didn't think they were being deprived of certain liberties, they thought they were being protected by the men in their families. They thought the men had their best interests at heart.

Pan Howell

The near-term savings are not going to be as much as it needs to be. What it does is keep them from producing cars they don't need and they won't have to discount the cars as much.

Brian Ropp

I feel this is a good long term move.

Ray Beckerman

Firefighters don't like the term 'culture change.' They think it's an assault on tradition. But look at the facts. Half of the firefighter deaths each year are due to heart attack, and another 25 percent are guys who die in car accidents on the way to the fire. Firefighters are indeed heroes, but these are not hero deaths.

Bill Manning

This product is the number one development priority of the company, and I am willing to sacrifice short-term earnings in order to accelerate its longer-term potential.

William Carpenter

Overall, this kind of teaching has certainly stifled social consciousness among evangelicals. If Jesus may come at any minute, then long-term social reform or renewal are beside the point. It has a bad effect there.

Tim Weber

About half of new car buyers say longer-term dependability is a key factor in choosing which vehicle they want. This is becoming the next major issue in the auto industry, and a much more consistent focus from automaker to automaker than it has been in the past.

Joe Ivers

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Osama Bin Laden

Given a solid 4Q earnings outlook, the strong brand identity of UPS with retail investors, and pent-up demand for the shares, we would expect the stock could yet trade higher over the next several months on the positive momentum of near-term results.

Scott Flower

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Don Stewart

Given these divergent signals from the Bank of Canada and the Fed, look for the Canadian dollar to strengthen in the near term, trading decisively through 90 U.S. cents.

Craig Alexander

Many of the provisions would actually end up harming consumers in the long-term rather than helping them.

Nessa Feddis

A rise in longer-term bond yields would arguably be seen as doing some of the Fed's tightening work.

Carolyn Kwan

Land rush may be too strong a term, but we're seeing more and more trying to stake out territory outside their branches.

Bert Ely

If the journalist was paying someone for their information, cooperation and participation, the payment may taint the reliability of the story and the truth being sought. Credibility is affected. Some would even put the term 'checkbook journalism' on this matter.

Bob Steele

We're looking at some short-term solutions to getting traffic off that ramp more quickly.

John Steiner

I'm more concerned about the long-term welfare of his wife and daughter if he has to go to Iraq. All indications are he will.

Bill Clark

It creates a combined company with one million ounces of annual production, low operating costs and near-term growth that should be attractive to all investors in the gold sector.

Joseph Conway

With exports to China, demand -- which had slowed late last year -- is now seeing a solid rebound, and with firm demand in the US continuing, Japanese exports are most likely to maintain brisk gains in the near term.

Taro Saito

Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to our long-term growth. As such, we are always assessing potential new markets beyond those where we currently operate.

Anne Roman

On a scale of 1 to 3, it was a 4. It was off the chart. It was pretty badly damaged. Shredded is the better term.

Dr. Lonnie Paulos

We don't mind offering you a long-term truce on fair conditions that we adhere to. Both sides can enjoy security and stability under this truce so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been destroyed in this war. There is no shame in this solution.

Bin Laden

We've got to stop the starving, stop the dying, then we can work on the long term, systemic issues.

Michael Hess

Building a forest with financial support from Guangdong will improve the ecological environment along the river's upper reaches and it should become an effective way in the long term to fight against salt tides.

Chen Kaizhi

The results of our 2004 program were so successful that we are extending it to a six-month period this year. Using generics when appropriate cuts members' out-of-pocket expenses, but it also helps hold down overall medical costs. Since prescription-drug costs are a key driver of rising medical costs, the long-term increased use of generics impacts future premiums to the benefit of our customers.

Bob Greczyn

You've got to look at very long-term impacts, with people out of their homes for months or years. The magnitude of the population displaced is very troubling. You look at 'OK, how many of our hospitals might be functioning?' There are pockets of New Orleans that still don't have power. Where do you move these people if you have to move them? We don't have answers right now.

Rob Harper

This is not as dramatic. But this is how you get long-term protection.

Alan Dooley

Whether the tremendous growth by Milwaukee is a one-year phenomenon or the start of something long-term remains to be seen. But in the past, the city has lost ground to its suburbs and nearby cities.

Jeff Schmidt

This multi-pronged approach will hopefully help to assure the long-term benefits of the bakery.

Mark Samson

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Bryan Hassler

The high cost of maintaining term deposits has informed the movement to current and savings accounts.

James Macharia

I don't think they're looking to Harry Potter to rescue this year. It's a long term issue for them, it's a launching of franchise.

Dana Harris

We believe that the 60-month backlog provides additional visibility into the long-term, recurring nature of our business.

Philip G. Heasley

The Kings are very pleased to make a long-term commitment to Alex. He is a very gifted offensive player who, at just 23 years of age, has already made significant contributions to our organization. He has a lot of great years ahead of him and he loves playing in Los Angeles. Our fans will certainly be very happy to see him in a Kings uniform for not only next year but beyond as well.

Dave Taylor

When they started, their long-term plan wasn't for it to continue to be free, but now the board is adamant that it remain free. Now, it's something we really tout.

Dana Cañedo

This recent wave of merger news provides some of the strongest evidence yet that companies are willing to do some long-term planning. The kind of deals getting announced not just bolt-on acquisitions but transformational deals.

Arnie Berman

This is a long-term improvement measure designed to do two things: increase capacity by a steady program of expansion and enhance the guest experience with thrilling new attractions and features.

Bill Ernest

I think that with a very soft July and August in Europe, combined with customers sitting on their hands for the next quarter, there's just no way CA can get to the growth rates that they were talking about before and I think that they probably realize that and will be more cautionary about near-term growth.

Jordan Klein

It's a near-term hit for long-term opportunity.

Adrianne Shapira

This whole state is hurting right now. I know times are hard. I understand people are angry with Benson and don't want to give him their hard-earned money. But in the long term, what that team means to this state ... it's a great benefit in the long term. We need to keep them here.

Allen Rivers

True investing is making a commitment to own a company, to participate in its business over the long term and not betting on short-term movements in its stock price. To change our core discipline would dilute our efforts and all that we believe in.

Bob Millen

I think investors should strongly invested, ... They should realize that doom and gloom and all of this talk of recession is typical of major market lows. I think they should realize that the average decline within these long-term 'super bull' markets is 19 percent. And we've been down 27-to-28 percent. It's a great time to buy.

Robert Robbins

He's elated. He's very happy. He's got the long-term deal he's always wanted.

Rich Rosa

The proposal is an exercise in financial engineering and does not take into account McDonald's unique business model. While we remain open to ideas, we simply will not jeopardize the long-term health of our company, nor our relationships with customers, franchisees and suppliers for such a financial engineering exercise.

Matthew Paull

I'm nervous as a cat, ... I have plenty of crude oil in the short term, but if we go down without power, we have zero production. There's a chance we could lose power for several days.

Robert Mills

I think it's about time somebody start moving in ... I thought Bush made a smart choice by encouraging [research], too. He's just not the man to carry that to term.

Charles Walters

We do not anticipate this being a long-term situation.

Mark O'neal

They were left without a prom date following the Ameritrade announcement. This planned acquisition demonstrates that this company is a long-term contender in a rapidly consolidating industry.

Robert Hansen

For the short-term, there is also I think a political symbol for the region that says we are working together and the noose around Iraq is closing.

Gerald Steinberg

Single family starts will likely remain elevated until we see a significant increase in long term interest rates.

Gina Martin

We continue to see high demand for international cargo capacity and we want to ensure that we have the aircraft to meet that demand long-term.

Rob Binns

AIW is a great fit for Georgia, especially the Douglas area. I'm pleased we were able to move quickly and I look forward to a long-term, sustainable relationship that will contribute to the economic vitality of both AIW and the community.

Craig Lesser

Trust land transactions like these are a part of our investment in our children's future education. Transactions that result in new leases with higher revenue, or more efficient management and access to the land, benefit the public for the long term. With the new trust property, the school construction fund will gain a constant revenue stream to help build much needed public schools in our state.

Doug Sutherland

Consumers would be shocked to learn that the amount of many short-term payday loans may be as high as 500-percent APR or even greater in many cases. Undoubtedly, some consumers would choose to forego the loan in the face of such written disclosures. However, even when disclosures are made, they are frequently inaccurate, failing to take into account various fees and charges.

Brian Caldwell

[Selling or spinning off the business,] would be a Band-Aid on an open flesh wound, ... The stock would move higher in the short term but the company would regret it three to five years from now. They just need to focus on how to make money from their existing subscriber base.

Matt Kelmon

Beneath all of this violence is a power contest. The north wants power back and the delta has also thrown its hat in the ring, so the third term campaign frustrates them both.

Pini Jason

I'm sure Richard Kirkland did his best as warden at Pelican Bay State Prison for the short term he was there. We wish him the best.

Rick Newton

It would be hard to overestimate this as a first step for China. If China can transform its big banks, this will have enormous implications for China's long-term economic growth.

Nicholas Lardy

He was very concerned about atomic science, ... He took one of the first classes ever offered in the subject. It was then that he became concerned about the long-term effects of science - after all, you can't undo an A-bomb.

Susan Taylor

If they want to continue to grow at an above-average rate, absolutely, they've got to make these investments. The problem is that it's squeezing short-term earnings, and investors don't like that.

Robert Toomey

Trading is strong across the Group, demonstrating the broad base of the company's activities and the benefits of our long-term investment strategy.

Nigel Newton

The proper approach is to have a long-term strategy that has a balance of different types of investments in the portfolio, so that it's built in that it deals with changing market conditions.

Barbara Roper

Sun just about coined the term open computing.

David Van Beveren

Under term limits, people know their next race for office is in two or four or six years, and they're looking over their shoulder to see who they need to avoid offending, ... I think that's part of where the abstentions come from.

Paul Koretz

There are only so many movies you can make in a given year, and this didn't fit into our long-term approach. We were uncomfortable with this kind of humor.

Dennis Rice

This new company will allow Bloomberg and its partner banks to share long term in the benefits of developing electronic trading. This will serve to combine Bloomberg's technology and distribution with the strong governance and liquidity provision that committed banks can bring.

Russel Levi

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs.

Charles Golvin

It's a new term, ... What it does is make us more aware of what we're doing. We do care about the students and want all of them to be successful.

Jane Adams

Long-term investors should stay the course, ... No one should be diving into this market with the notion that they'll make fast money because that's not the case.

Peter Cardillo

In reference to prices, what matters are the laws of the market. If the junction of these two groups results in more productivity and efficiency, certainly steel production in the long term is going to grow and, with this, demand for iron ore.

Roger Agnelli

Longer-term, I don't think there is going to be an economic impact as long as there isn't a longer period when energy prices are affected.

Shawn Campbell

There is a knee-jerk reaction to this short-term political concern. But should foreign investors realize that this is not for the short term, they may be prompted to sell as well.

James Lago

The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time?potentially in all lines of business, not just property?or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

David Bradford

Extending the water supply during this extremely dry period through the efficient use of our existing water resources is crucial to meeting long-term needs.

Jim Parks

I see $15 as a possible turning point. In the short term it could be a top for this rally, but I wouldn't want to make any predictions for the long term.

Jeffrey Rhodes

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Dan Ahrens

The market opportunity for this type of storage is growing rapidly, and Cornice is in a prime position to capture a large long-term market share.

Camillo Martino

Short-term prices bounce around. I think we will see the long end of most curves move upwards.

Mark Mathias

Our general feeling is that we will see continued moderate advances in equity prices, with earnings being the driving force, offsetting potential increases in short-term interest rates.

Robert Balentine

There are all sorts of long-term problems that need to be tackled.

Alpha Oumar Konare

Three years ago, nobody took the Internet seriously. We're in it for the long term.

Ryan Jacob

At the same time, while I was hoping to get a term deal and didn't, there's are some positives with that, too. If I don't renegotiate with Buffalo during the season, then I'll hit the open market. At the end of the tunnel is unrestricted free agency, and that's something every player looks forward to. That could be a very exciting time.

Jay Mckee

I think it's a big danger for the industry. I don't think it's a healthy way to run the business long-term.

Steve Lyons

It's a victory for J&J, ... I think it's a recognition that Guidant's franchise has at least sustained some near-term damage. Whether they can correct that and when they can correct that is going to be a question going forward.

John Putnam

I fully intend to be here for the long term. It is a strategy that's going to take a lot of work. I'm here. You're stuck with me.

James Murdoch

If you're about to start a family, you'll have some emergency needs. Keep three to six months of committed expenses in a liquid account maybe short-term CDs.

Thomas O'reilly

Will people come to see brand name exhibits? Yes. Will they people come to see exhibits with a more scholarly intent? We will have to see, ... This is the fastest growing city in the U.S. So our play here is for the long term.

Thomas Krens

The idea is to identify the parts that need repairs more urgently but in the longer term we hope to move away from one-off emergency interventions and toward a proper preservation scheme.

Angelo Bottini

There is naturally a tension between short-term and long-term, ... The key is, you can never sacrifice your long-term growth, your long-term reputation, to the short-term. You miss a quarter, you miss a quarter. You miss a bunch of quarters, that's a different matter.

Charles O. Prince Iii

We're talking long-term, ... It's very scary. To really do what we need to do as humans, we need to ... treat them like we want to be treated.

Andrea Cook

The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. "Sequential Art" is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

Will Eisner

This is a good level to buy Treasuries. We're looking for opportunities to extend the duration of our holdings by buying longer-term notes.

Satoshi Asai

I think it's an offensive term.

Bruce S. Gordon

We felt it was a good, long-term investment.

Charles Cunniffe

While we are disappointed with the results and expect continued intense competition, we remain committed to our focus on store execution, training, inventory control and effective advertising and promotions. We believe this is the formula for increasing sales and improving cash flow in the long term.

Mary Sammons

There has been a long-term decline with the proportion of adults and children registered with a dentist falling for the best part of 15 years. We are getting a lot of feedback from dentists saying that the new contract is the last straw and that they are thinking of closing their doors to NHS patients.

Steve Webb

Having such a loyal employee and talented crew chief like Tony as part of DEI on a long-term basis was an important objective for the continuity of our program.

Teresa Earnhardt

When it comes to the building delays, people need to look at the long term and not just the present. These projects have so much potential for the future, and once they are completed and in use, it will have been worth the wait.

Bill Bray

In education, long term, the only thing constant is change.

Michael Longenberger

Just as teachers put together report cards for their students at the end of the term, so do we at the end of the legislative session. We're willing to support any candidate who will stand up for kids and education.

Linda Nelson

We're really excited to grow there. This is really a straightforward story about going to where the opportunities are. These [opportunities] certainly are more robust in the Middle East today than they were 20 years ago. The Middle East is a hotbed of tension, but businesspeople usually think long haul. Long-term, we think there are plenty of safe markets there.

Paul Charron

You can't underestimate the long-term impact of the events center. This always has been about improving the quality of life here, and this is a great step.

Greg Edwards

Visa appears unlikely to alter its current ownership structure in the near term, even as MasterCard remains committed to an initial public offering some time in the second quarter.

Matthew Park

There will be a short-term revenue impact, ... We expect it to transform our business nationwide.

Paul Matsen

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Mark Dayton

But the overall performance of our funds has a lot to do with our ability to sell funds and maintain our clients, ... Therefore fund performance is critical to the long-term health of Federated stock.

Chris Donahue

There's been a string of bad luck and sloppy disclosure which does reduce the confidence of investors, especially those with shorter-term horizons.

Safa Rashtchy

Dory: I suffer from short term memory loss. It runs in my family... At least I think it does... Where are they?

Finding Nemo

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

Joseph Unsworth

We are still unclear about what's in the water. We don't know the potential impact on food resources. Long-term assessments are needed.

Karen Steuer

The bottom line is that, despite some longer-term issues, we think weak industry sentiment combined with some valid company-specific concerns have pushed the stock lower than is justified. We believe that the near-term positives outweigh the near-term risks.

Benjamin Schachter

In this market, express delivery on a global basis, we're confident the long- term outlook for growth is more than adequate. They continue to bang the drum on profitability discipline.

Dan Ortwerth

I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.

Alan Wallace

A lot of it (coming out for football) had to do with Coach Robert; I just wanted to quiet him. I kind of took it as a one-year thing. I never looked at it as a long term thing. But I started liking it more and more, and it became more and more fun.

Andrew Sherwood

He has bet his governorship on these initiatives, ... He has pushed all of his chips to the middle of the table, and if these initiatives don't pass, it is difficult to see him seeking another term.

Brendan Daly

I'm not convinced that talks would lead anywhere. (But) in the short to medium term, they would take the pressure out of the system that's driving oil prices.

Cliff Kupchan

It seems unlikely that he would say anything that would be intended to greatly alter expectations. I don't see what the market has priced in now, in terms of near-term rate actions, to be at odds with the general drift of policy-makers' thinking.

Michael Prell

Short-term, chip sets is the fastest-growing part of our business but we have to attack the margins there.

Dave Orton

I enjoyed my time on Wall Street, I learned a lot, and I still have a lot of friends there, but I never saw myself there long term, because when I looked at the senior guys there, that wasn't the kind of life I wanted for myself, ... Here, I'm supporting one of the world's great institutions.

David Swensen

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

Trading conditions continue to be difficult and there is little evidence to suggest this will improve in the near term.

John Hargreaves

Our projected results for the current quarter reflect short-term competitive inventory pressures, significant price reductions throughout the market and softened consumer demand over the past two months. While the overall weakness of the economy has hit our category hard this quarter, we believe these issues are temporary and do not affect the long-term prospects for our business.

Donna Dubinsky

Who's going to be the needle mover in 2008, 2009, 2012? We can't think that short term. We have to think long term. If we would have thought short term, we would not have moved. We're going to continue to think long term. We're going to continue to think about how we can improve our product.

Steve Timms

If we should downgrade Tyson Foods' long-term debt rating after our review it would place the bonds in the speculative grade (junk) category.

John Cline

The declines have put stocks at a critical level that they need to recover from in the near term.

Todd Salamone

Everyone must look beyond short-term national interests. This way we can achieve results that will be visible in our citizens' lives.

Tarja Halonen

We pick those two for their exposure to the domestic market. We think the recovery in Asia is lifting demand and has re-established a floor under oil prices, and we don't expect prices to drop any time in the near term.

Alan Kral

The supreme goal must be to finally boost long-term profitability at the company.

Susan Levermann

I don't think it's the same thing. Hip-hop has redefined the word. It can mean a number of things. It can be a term of admiration. It can be a term of recognition.

Todd Boyd

She will be the most recognized female athlete on the planet for the next 12 to 18 months. Her marketability will never be higher than it is now. How much money she makes long-term will be determined by how well she plays.

Scott Seymour