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For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

Joseph Biden

They broke this computer here. They broke our fax copier machine here. Our telephones they broke. Our copier right over here, brand new, was destroyed.

Tenille Schmidt

One hand adds 100 jobs and the other hand takes 200 in widespread cuts to the state budget. And from where exactly will the police get the funding to buy bugging devices? The criminals don't have such problems. They have the money for satellite telephones, fast cars and fortified houses.

Yossi Sedbon

We had to lay off 70 staff members and now only have 14 people running the museum. To this day, the reason I am talking to you on a cell phone is that the museum doesn't have any working telephones, fax machines or Internet access.

William Fagaly

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

James Hartman

Through these propositions, we intend to gain market share in key businesses, such as digital cellular telephones, where significant new products are planned for introduction before the end of the third quarter, and embedded semiconductors.

Christopher B. Galvin

If we have trouble with cell phones and land-line telephones, they serve as our communications element, ... We lost cells and land lines in the 2001 tornado, so we used them as our primary form of communications, with radios in different vehicles.

David J. Moore

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

We don't have to invent television, the Internet or telephones. What we hope we can do is improve the experience you have with your television.

John Garcia

We have one staff person. We have one investigator. We have no capital case defense lawyers, no office, no telephones, no computers.

Laurie White

Toy telephones are commonly louder than 90 decibels. If a toy that's held to an adult's ear hurts, it's too loud for children.

Rachel Weintraub

Lots of things made it special. It was the most current of the hotels, and it boasted 100 baths, some private and some shared. It was very sumptuous. The furniture was lavish; there were beautiful imported carpets; beautiful draperies and blinds; telephones; electricity; and all the latest innovations.

David Barber

Telephones! The curse of idle women.

Axel Munthe

Media is becoming much more important now that people have broadband at home and mobile telephones that can receive content. Media stocks are going to ride a wave of growth that is only beginning.

Philippe Gijsels

It's been unbelievable. Really, everybody, I believe, has a lot of empathy for the people who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. It has really been overwhelming. Our telephones ring constantly. Everyday, people are calling in or coming in with new fundraising ideas.

Angela Nicholas

It showed that our country was capable of making a scientific discovery of global importance. We forget that we use the results of space exploration everyday. Cellular telephones, television programming, satellite navigation - all this is a result of what we did, which became a way of life.

Alexei Leonov

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Will Oldham

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas.

Jason Catlett

[Improvements from better food to more than a dozen private conference rooms outfitted with telephones and fax machines are designed to keep customers in the building] a few more hours buying horses, ... Buying horses makes them happy. That makes us happy. That makes everybody happy.

Nick Nicholson

A lot of people didn't have telephones. That [the postcard] was their way of communication.

Paul Boothroyd

We once had a woman in a wheelchair, who needed assistance in the bathroom from her husband. That really touched me. We had some space set aside for telephones and we turned it into a bathroom just for the handicapped.

Randy Beaulaurier

Nineteen percent of homes in Western Europe are already 'cellular-only'; cellular operators should be encouraged to see that a further 18 percent of cellular users with fixed telephones are also considering disconnecting that fixed line.

Phil Kendall