There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is a definite candidate.
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IRA ZUCKERMAN I think we're going to see further consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry. I think that's goin...
FRANCIS GANNON We don't want to say 'Hey, let's go close Bonita.' when maybe there's another school in the parish t...
KRIS MCKOIN We continue to strongly support the view that China will implement the announced reform of its steel...
KIRBY ADAMS It would lead to further consolidation in the industry, which is seeing several players enter in a s...
KALPESH PAREKH
I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS
The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with o...
DAVE BARRY
The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with o...
DAVE BARRY Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ Aggressive bids from financial sponsors would clearly serve as an upside catalyst for the group as i...
PETER APPERT We believe there will be further consolidation in our sector. We've said all along we're going to be...
ED WEST Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on...
BOB GOODMAN It's like standing on top of the John Hancock. This is the best we've been.
JERRY ANGELO
It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent ...
ED ROLLINS I think this is just a normal step going forward, ... We're kind of following a normal evolution in ...
JOSEPH WRIGHT But the HSA isn't a new idea. It's been compared to an IRA for health insurance.
CHESTER SPELL But the HSA isn't a new idea. It's been compared to an IRA for health insurance.
CHESTER SPELL This deal is going to prompt further consolidation. The continuing volatility in petroleum prices ma...
GEORGE GASPAR It's unclear how the insurance industry is going to survive in the sort of world that we're expectin...
ANDREW LOGAN I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more diffi...
ALLAN KAPLAN We do not agree with forcing consolidation. One path they're going down with this report is followin...
ED HOUGHTON He means an awful lot to the Detroit Red Wings. I might dig out some old cards and get him to put hi...
NICK VITUCCI There is an inexorable drift toward consolidation in the drug industry.
PETER CARTWRIGHT When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I lo...
CAMPBELL BROWN He's a very credible candidate. I'm not going to be presumptuous. No one's going to say it's going t...
VIC ROBERTS In those meetings, they discussed what they were going to do, who was going to be a candidate, what ...
CESAR GAVIRIA It's not necessary for a wave of consolidation in the worldwide auto industry,
DAVID HEALY It makes sense. There is one more big consolidation possible in the gas industry and this is it.
EGGERT KULS If there is a question at some point as to whether the industry should be held responsible for flood...
LORETTA WORTERS This should be the beginning of the industry consolidation, not the end.
DANIEL KIM This is a time of tremendous consolidation within the financial services industry.
HERB PERONE
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON The Republican Party in Montana deserves a candidate who's able to make decisions and will stick wit...
BOB KELLEHER I can't say enough good things about John. I don't know how they are going to replace him, and I thi...
DON SHELDON It's the next natural wave of industry consolidation.
JEFF KAGAN Any decrease of that magnitude would stagger the entire insurance industry here.
DANIEL JOHNSTON If this is to become a perpetual government program, like flood insurance, the industry should be ho...
WAYNE ALLARD I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.
HEATHER BRESCH That's not John Roberts. He's the wrong candidate for the job, Chief Justice John Roberts is a risk ...
BARRY LYNN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary docu...
SUZE ORMAN There has been a lot of pressure from large shareholders. The market is reacting well to it...everyo...
IAN SYNNOTT John Hancock owned one of the wharves. It needed repair. In this letter he instructs his agent in Pl...
PEGGY BAKER Historically, Ford and Navistar have been the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the medium-duty truck busin...
DAVID GARRITY
I think my candidate, John Kerry, has now demonstrated that he's a fighter,
EDWARD KENNEDY There is a huge amount of consolidation in the industry, and that consolidation is smaller companies...
DAVID MANNING As of this moment I don't know exactly what we're going to do, ... I would say this is probable, it'...
BILL PARCELLS We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic par...
KAREN ROBERTS There's always been a lot of mix and matching going on in the retail industry. With all the consolid...
ROBERT FORT
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are g...
J. C. WATTS We saw things happening in the market, including the global impact of China's growing demand and con...
MICHAEL WAGNER
I don't really know what I'm going to do, ... What kind of a justice would you be, John Roberts?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN We believe that the industry is only at the initial phases of what we think will be a very significa...
LEONARD YAFFE Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ The challenge is on the RBA and other players in the industry to increase the level of coverage and ...
JOSEPH KINYUA If you're in farming, you have to be optimistic. It's hard to say what the industry is going to look...
ELLIS HUNT Now we're moving into an environment where we've got consolidation at the industry level [and] restr...
JAMES FIORILLO Theres no way to be successful
in music and be debauched.
GREG KOCH You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
DON IMUS
All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one
JEFF BUCKLEY I would say that to extrapolate a sea change in the industry from one tragic situation would be noth...
JAY TAYLOR
I think the best way for the IRA to leave the stage, ... is in a dignified manner that prevents any ...
GERRY ADAMS It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
IAN PAISLEY The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say...
LANCE HENRIKSEN In the past, the company had always been the only party that went looking for insurance coverage, an...
DAVE ALTMAN The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say...
LANCE HENRIKSEN The insurance money is starting to come in and we've talked to our attorneys and it's okay to send a...
IVEN KELLEY We believe consolidation in the industry is inevitable, ... We are in and out of talks with several...
DOUGLAS PARKER The life insurance industry squandered its leadership. It failed to recognize fundamental changes in...
BOB MACDONALD We're going to have a large-scale consolidation in the investment business. The investment business ...
LAURENCE FINK The shift in investor demand and the emergence of new strategies that require in-depth research and ...
ANTOINE MASSAD Whether she's going to be a candidate or not is her decision.
LYNN KING I would say it's going to be me,
JUSTIN GATLIN We believe consolidation in the industry is inevitable, ... We are in and out of talks with several ...
DOUGLAS PARKER I would lay my life on the line that the IRA has acted in good faith, and has fully disarmed,
ALEC REID But consolidation must take priority over any discussions about further tax breaks.
AXEL WEBER There's a lot of consolidation going on in the banking industry, and there are many different [elect...
GEORGE KOO Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two ...
FINN JONES I like Inca Trail very much and obviously he's a horse who will be going there with a definite chanc...
GINGER MCCAIN For the insurance industry to really succeed,she needs to think like a bank.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's like standing on top of the John Hancock (building). Compared to where it's been, this is the b...
JERRY ANGELO To say insurance companies should pay for stuff that is completely unproven is asking a lot from ins...
DAVID MAGNUS
The magazine publishing industry owes John a debt. And I think the best way to repay that debt is to...
CHRISTIE HEFNER The insurance industry is very important to this area. It diversifies the economy and makes it stron...
ELLEN JONES
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the aut...
ADAM MCKAY I was communications director for [2004 presidential candidate John] Kerry in Florida, and we couldn...
MATTHEW MILLER
I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candida...
DAN QUAYLE It's clear that this jury is sending a message to the business insurance industry that the American ...
CHRISTOPHER OPALINSKI They are going to be benefiting from the consolidation of acquisitions.
MICHAEL SONES If you are in the financial planning business, nothing could have been better than the [introduction...
CINDY FRAILING
I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candida...
DAN QUAYLE How dare they say things like that when John Kerry supported them on a number of different things an...
ED RENDELL Some of them would just hang up. They'd be like, 'Is this Brian Dawkins?' I'd say yes and they would...
BRIAN DAWKINS If you are in the financial planning business, nothing could have been better than the [introduction...
CINDY FRAILING
So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Would you say that your views are the same as those expressed by John Kennedy when he was a candidat...
ARLEN SPECTOR To those who say the results of this election are already definite, I say: Look at the number of und...
JOSCHKA FISCHER Love is the root of all happiness and all sorrow and theres not much in between.
CHASE KITCHENS Policy guidance and macro-control should be further strengthened to promote the healthy, orderly dev...
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IRA ZUCKERMAN You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.
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ETHAN ZUCKERMAN You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a mov...
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MR. ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
BEN ZUCKERMAN The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific s...
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Despite my skepticism, ... I thought to myself, 'This is perhaps the only illustration or symbol of ...
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DAN ZUCKERMAN There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
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ETHAN ZUCKERMAN The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globaliza...
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DAN ZUCKERMAN Where the disc comes from is the $64,000 question. However, we believe that it's from a planetary sy...
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Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
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DIANA ZUCKERMAN It should be FDA's job to make sure [ads are] understandable.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS
Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by p...
IRA BYOCK But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're be...
IRA GLASS [Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because the...
IRA WINKLER As companies continue to expense their stock options, we expect to see a growing number of companies...
IRA KAY
It's funny what a picture can do.
IRA HAYES For the first year, it's going to be more of a single-ticket audience (at MAC), ... Hopefully it wil...
IRA GOLDSTEIN We've talked about the fact that the East Valley is growing and we'd like to do more of our programm...
IRA GOLDSTEIN They insisted on two things, ... 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we ...
IRA GOLDSTEIN For most people when you say - public radio - they automatically think it's like medicine. We only d...
IRA GLASS Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's u...
IRA GLASS Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
IRA GLASS Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the ...
IRA WALLACH Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
IRA GASSEN I think [the new Warner Bros. leadership] had a view of a different direction for us that I don't th...
IRA DEAN I think we've grown up. We still like to throw down and have fun, but we've definitely grown up and ...
IRA DEAN The only model for studying human cancer is humans.
IRA MELLMAN It really is very bizarre.
IRA MELLMAN There is a desperation factor involved. Prospects are pretty good they won't win the lawsuit.
IRA LOSS I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in ...
IRA LOSS Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You s...
IRA LONGINI We're very unprepared. We haven't made influenza a high priority in this country, or anywhere else t...
IRA LONGINI Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.
IRA SORKIN But we need to get something back in there that can serve not only the residents but also attract pe...
IRA SCHLOSSER We all feel disappointed that Americas' Food Basket didn't work out.
IRA SCHLOSSER Everyone is worried about the driver shortage.
IRA ROSENFELD While we are running some 7-8 percent ahead of last year both in tonnage and revenue, we feel we cou...
IRA ROSENFELD If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter...
IRA ROBBINS I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS
I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fasc...
IRA SACHS The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to...
IRA WINKLER Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative wor...
IRA GLASS
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
IRA SACHS
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces...
IRA SACHS
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS
For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
IRA SACHS
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
IRA SACHS I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is ...
IRA WINKLER
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER
it's about what you hide and what you show.
IRA SACHS
I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
IRA SACHS Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER
a terrible movie.
IRA GERSHWIN
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
IRA GLASS
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature,...
IRA GLASS We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of functio...
IRA BLACK I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more fl...
IRA BLACK The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN I wouldn't expect the Martin and St. Lucie district would necessarily close on the holidays. But I t...
IRA SHESKIN It's a driver's market. They are going to go where they can get the best rate.
IRA ROSENFELD He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old an...
IRA ROHTER Government should not ignore the criminal aspects of what the tobacco companies were doing. In fact,...
IRA ROBBINS Most Americans feel it doesn't make any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give bi...
IRA MEHLMAN The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that...
IRA LOSS It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufact...
IRA LONGINI There is a trap in there somewhere, with the specialty divisions working in bigger and bigger contex...
IRA DEUTCHMAN I think the housing market certainly fired up real quick, maybe too quickly, and now it's probably j...
IRA CORLISS Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecti...
IRA COHEN I think adding Common Short Codes to print advertising is the best option. A user just has to send a...
IRA BRODSKY I dont know that I set out to do that, ... I consciously try not to have themes.
IRA GOLDSTEIN The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a...
IRA GLASSER Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in ...
IRA GLASS Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. ...
IRA GLASS
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry,
It's just because I'm so misunderstood.
When I was...
IRA GERSHWIN
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity i...
IRA SACHS
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joi...
IRA SACHS I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
IRA GLASS I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about th...
IRA GLASS Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like ...
IRA WINKLER
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that t...
IRA KAPLAN Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind my...
IRA GLASS Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot...
IRA GLASS I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS You are only partly alive.
IRA LEVIN The gold standard of group-study space is Huntsman. So we got students to tell us what they liked ab...
IRA WINSTON I've got to try to work my way back in. I've been out so long I guess I've been forgotten. I'm hopin...
IRA NEWBLE In some cases we will even contact the author's institution and say, 'You should look into this beca...
IRA MELLMAN The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go ho...
IRA MEHLMAN If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a yea...
IRA MEHLMAN It is a de facto amnesty. It rewards people who broke the law. It puts at a disadvantage kids who di...
IRA MEHLMAN We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.
IRA MEHLMAN This is a huge victory for the hundreds of children and families who were affected here. This is a c...
IRA LUSTBADER It seems from the responses I got that most of [the candidates] aren't interested in discussing it, ...
IRA LEEDS Depending on what is considered a relevant obligation, at the end of the day we're going to be very ...
IRA JERSEY Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part ...
IRA GOLDSTEIN In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there,
IRA GOLDSTEIN Before women start rushing to this agent, a truly placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-institutio...
IRA GOLDSTEIN Her vision of what the country is, and what she should be writing about, is totally her own. She's u...
IRA GLASS The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN People were deceived in a brutal way: playing the AIDS card to elicit support, money, connections. T...
IRA SILVERBERG People were generous because they thought they were helping an H.I.V.-positive former drug addict, e...
IRA SILVERBERG