Projected Quotations

To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil, because the hurricane is projected to come in in the heart of the gas and oil port. Prices are going to go up.

Nobody would've projected him to be as good as he's been. It also leads you to believe that as smart as we are sometimes, maybe it's better sometimes to let players play just to see. Sometimes guys surprise you. Sometimes you misread a player, you just don't know how he's going to respond under pressure situations.

Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a projected wetland and their natural habitat,

Now the same fear was being projected on Iraq -- that he was an alarming, threatening leader in the region who was out to grab the oil weapon and use it against the West.

Right now is the time we all need to come together and be partners to accomplish this task as we move forward if we don't have these homes the soldiers that are projected to be up here they won't be able to come up here till the homes are available.

I don't have any detailed information on the proposal. So I don't know if there are any nuances that would move the projected numbers up or down.

If this is going to be our publicly projected national image, I think we need to send the architects back to the drawing board to come up with a more inclusive, positive message.

If we don't build new schools outlined in the bond issue, we will have to put the projected 7,500 students expected in the next four years in existing classrooms and portable buildings,

If we find that instead of a legitimate sales seminar and a free meal, seniors are being exposed to pitches for unsuitable products, with high-pressure sales tactics and wild claims about projected returns, and no disclosure of the actual risks of the investment, we'll move in hard and fast.

If they are paying death benefits, that's their problem. We have solid data on the projected number of deaths that could be expected. People think they got massive doses, but they didn't, they really didn't.

Medicaid is projected to spend $340 billion in 2006 in combined federal and state dollars. I encourage everyone to think of this program not as a problem, but as an opportunity for real progress, ... A 21st Century Responsible Citizen Medicaid Act would empower those who depend on Medicaid and align incentives so that patients receive markedly better care at lower cost in an environment where physicians, hospitals, pharmacists and nursing homes compete for patients based on the value of their services.

Medicare is projected to run out of money in 2001. That date of fiscal insolvency can be put off for several years by relatively incremental and modest changes, but when the baby boomers start retiring, ... At that point, costs go up very rapidly, and more extensive action will be necessary.

So many people projected us not even to make the playoffs 2 1/2 weeks ago. We have big things to look forward to right now.

Seven weeks ago at our Dec. 7 earnings announcement, we projected a falloff in the current quarter of 10 percent based on slowness in the wireless market, PCs and peripherals, and a broad-based distribution inventory correction.

Four models (for the projected path) came out this morning, and two have the eye coming across Carteret County.

Fukui's remarks today fueled speculation that the end of the policy could come as soon as March. With consumer prices projected to keep rising this year, the BOJ may raise rates as soon as October.

Freight and passenger traffic are forecast to grow in the 5 to 6 per cent range during the year but the industry is projected to record another loss of over US$4 billion for 2006.

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

go by projections because if I believed in projections, I wouldn't be the governor of Minnesota today, because nobody projected me to win.

Given three days' notice as to the general location of landfall and the projected level of impact, I thought we would have been better prepared for this situation. We certainly would not have had the luxury of knowledge of timing and location were it a terrorist attack on the levees rather than the impact from Katrina.

For us in Central Florida, we are not in the projected path yet but we are getting ever so close.

Based on what I've seen, we look to be in pretty good shape as a team. It's possible that we could go in as the projected state champion. Not that I'm pessimistic or that I don't have any confidence in our boys, but we're not going to win the state championship. (St. Xavier) is in a class by itself. ... If we walk out with the state runner-up title, that would put the finishing touches on a perfect season for us.

I don't care if you're projected as the star of the team or the captain of the team. I don't care if you're the grinder of the team. I don't care if you're the ice cream man. If you don't push and play with intensity, you are not going to get your ice time.

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

had been receiving signals that some of our arguments were resonating with the commissioners, particularly with respect to the projected cost savings of closing the base ... Not only did I become more optimistic, but I was confident that our odds had improved significantly. I am pleased that those signals were accurate and that we can celebrate today.

We looked at using existing messages because that would be a cheaper solution and easier to implement. But because we were looking to define this common standard not just for current weapons capabilities, but also for projected weapon capabilities and for future sensors, that drove us to new message implementations.

He didn't get away with it tonight. Gov. Bush tried a lot of the stuff that he has gotten away with in the campaign so far, and Al Gore was right there on target with the facts. The fact is that it is Governor Bush who's overspending the projected surplus, and Al Gore is staying within the surplus.

When he came out of McKinley High School, I don't know if anybody in this room would've envisioned that this young man would be sitting here right now as a top five projected pick in the NBA.

Hopefully, this thing subsides and he's going to be able to toe that slab here before the year is over, but we have no projected date for him, ... There's no way he's going to be able to take the ball in Anaheim.

Looking forward, a projected slowing in housing construction in North America is expected to keep wood product prices on a gradual downward course in 2006. Pulp and paper prices are likely to hold up comparatively better.

Looking forward, we continue to believe that excluding one-timer merger-related transaction costs, the new US Airways will be profitable in 2006 - even at today's projected fuel prices.

Recent declines in international demand for chicken coupled with greater than expected domestic supply will dramatically impact the projected performance of our chicken segment.

I think by the end of the first season it was pretty clear that the numbers, if you will, were greater than the projected numbers, and that we were going to be around for awhile.

Last year annual spending on video conferencing was estimated to be $4.3 billion. By 2005, it is projected to grow to $7.7 billion,

Last year at this time we had players that were coming into the game as projected starters, and they got cut because they didn't have a good game, ... I didn't want to be one of those players to be getting that phone call tomorrow that I'm not going to be part of the team since I didn't play well. I just tried to leave everything on the line and just play.

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

Rita was Bush putting on a show. Bush and his people took a lot of heavy hits in their response to Katrina. They wanted to be sure that this time around they projected an image of effectiveness.

Our projected date is the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year.

Our projected deficit for the June 30, 2007, school year is $2.3-million.

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.

I think the main message is, it's certainly good news that instead of a $70-million-plus projected deficit (in 2005), the city now has a small surplus. We're not done yet. We have to keep going.

It has been a good year for many Denver merger and acquisition professionals. Many private equity firms have made and exited good investments, and are having success raising their next funds, while investment bankers are helping broker many deals. It's a hot and competitive market right now. Additionally, the first baby boomers turned age 60 in 2005. We are beginning the early stages of what is projected to be the greatest wave of business transition in U.S. history over the next decade.

I think we're getting there, but we're not there yet. Ten years ago, nobody could have projected this. Are we satisfied with that? No.

I would have trusted him with my wallet. He projected this air of expertise and trustworthiness that exists with few people.

The assessment concludes that California will experience difficulties meeting its projected electricity demand this summer, and California electricity users will experience rotating blackouts, much more so than last summer or this past winter.

The Army may have a tough time pushing these projected reductions through Congress.

The amount of approved aid is based on projected enrollment, and although we had a good number, we were a little bit high in our projected amount.

With the development along that area, this projected was deemed to be a priority. Absent to that, Route 18 is becoming much more heavily traveled . This project will take steps to mitigate traffic along that corridor.

With the expansion projected to accelerate in the third quarter and inflation projected to be contained, the Fed is expected to 'play the same tune' and 'dance the same step' into early 2006.

Use your common sense and (if) you doubt the capacity to withstand high winds, then we are asking you to evacuate, ... Few mobile homes, if any, could withstand some of the types of winds that may be characteristic of a hurricane that is of the projected magnitude of Rita. We are asking you to evacuate.

U.S. High Yield Monthly: Cautionary Flags. However, the below 3.0% growth projected for the second-half of the year and into 2007 has historically not favored the high yield market, and a cautionary position on this asset class remains.

We're watching Tropical Storm Rita's projected path and, depending on its strength and how much rain falls, everything could change.

We have too many injuries, and we didn't have any way of knowing this was going to happen to us. The team we have on the floor right now is not the team we projected having at this point in the season.

The 400 to 700 home reduction in our projected fiscal year 2006 delivery guidance should reduce our earnings growth projections for fiscal 2006.

While we have made good progress in reducing costs over the last several years, the projected loss in North America reinforces our need to do much more, particularly in the area of healthcare, ... Healthcare has been an increasing drag on North American profits and it's made us vulnerable to profit shortfalls.

We have a few injuries in our back line. A couple of our projected starters didn't even play, but the players that went in did a great job. I moved junior midfielder Scott Carbon back to the defense and he played very well. I thought he was the player of the game.

Michelin and the industry continue to pass on rising material costs through tire price increases. Tire price increases have been crucial to offsetting the projected 15 percent increase in raw material costs Michelin will feel in 2005 (approximately 450 million increase vs. 2004).

While 2006 earnings targets appear achievable, we are concerned with the projected sustainability of volume and margins at the core Auto division. Fiat is not alone in lowering costs within its industrial base. Rival volume makers such as VW, Renault, Peugeot-Citroen, GM and Ford will also make significant restructuring improvements. In addition, Japanese and Korean market share gains are set to accelerate, putting manufacturers like Fiat on the hot seat.

We're allowed by the PUC to change the fuel factor on customers' bills to reflect those projected fuel costs.

We really are right at the starting line of an amazing opportunity in China right now. The country is evolving right before the world's eyes and right in the middle of all this, they are preparing to host the 2008 Olympics and need to prepare for that challenge. We had originally projected gross sales from China of approximately $20 million between now and the Olympics, but we now believe that this projection is too low. We will update these projections as our business relationships develop in China.

While the eye of the storm is now projected to go a little more westerly and into the Texas area, it is strengthening, ... That still could give us some impact on the eastern side of the storm. We are watching it and we want our citizens to watch it very carefully.

That was exactly as expected. When we did our IPO a year ago, we projected that second quarter of this year would be our peak. We will see now a narrowing of per-share loss in the subsequent quarters, going towards profitability.

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

There is no doubt that if we have lost that much money in retirement accounts, we lost that much money in the stock market itself, we could lose similar amounts of money in projected surpluses.

This work already gets you to start questioning. Slides are (generally) projected on the wall. But this one is on the floor. It gets you to think artists are turning this very traditional medium into something they can manipulate.

The ongoing construction of the stadium has continued at a rapid pace, and we're extremely pleased with the progress. It's projected to be done on time. But, in moving the San Jose State game to Spartan Stadium, we feel it gives us that extra week to assure ourselves that the stadium will be 100 percent ready.

We projected a lower and an upper figure. We wanted to make sure the Treasury was absolutely committed to the idea. We don't regret coming up with our numbers. The government did its own calculations.

We're not trying to kid anybody, we still need an inch more ice. But we feel good about the projected temperatures and we're proceeding as planned.

We are about six months ahead of schedule in terms of penetration rate. What our business flow projected was cash-flow break-even after five years.

The demographics of the state allows for another team. Given the projected growth of the state and the demographics, I think (San Antonio) would support (a team).

We want to assure our customers that this strategic approach will validate that our plans are in line with the projected growth.

The expense of offering indoor facilities is what costs us so much money. That's why we have projected to lose $170,000,

With 10,000 construction jobs created, 2,000 permanent jobs, $250 million in annual economic impact projected to the region and $1.6 billion in new tax revenue over the next 30 years, I'd say, 'Jets, welcome home!'

We consider trading down when the guys that we projected would be there, aren't there. They're all gone and we have to go to our next group, our next grade level. That's when we'll make the calls. Those guys are gone, let's go to our next group. The value is less because we graded them less. Let's see if we can get some takers and get another pick later on.

We have seen an increase in travelers during the spring holiday over the last two years, and we know consumers are increasingly looking to book vacation rentals as their accommodations. We are very confident that this trend will continue, so the city of Panama Beach is investing in its infrastructure as investors unfold their plans for vacation lodging. In fact, the number of condo properties is projected to increase from 83 to 130 between 2006 and 2007 and the number of condominium units is forecast to increase from 8,712 to 27,929 -- a 320 percent increase.

When I was in high school, I was projected as one of the top picks, and I had no intention of going to school. But, I had a bad senior year and I fell. Looking back, if I had gone (pro) out of high school, I would not have made it. I wasn't mature enough. ... Going to college was the best thing I ever did.

We feel a little sense of relief. The projected path now puts Galveston on the clean side as opposed to the dirty side.

When you take out the one-time charges, they actually beat the projected results by 10 cents per share.

Due to the unique strategic fit between the two companies and Level 3's past integration experience, we remain confident in our ability to successfully combine the businesses and conclude a smooth transition for customers. We commenced integration planning immediately after signing the definitive agreement in October, and we believe we are well positioned for a smooth integration process in keeping with our projected schedule.

Dustin is projected to start the season in Los Angeles. We are obviously pleased to have him signed and under contract with our organization. We think he has a real bright future with the Kings.

Cycle Country continues to move forward in its goal of becoming less seasonal with projected growth in three of its four divisions of between 37% (plastic wheel covers) to more than 1,300% (Weekend Warrior).

What I've thus far reviewed has projected me to the conclusion that's the proper direction to take.

a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, 1 million additional smokers quit each year -- 33 million over time?

The township has already invested approximately $4,000 to evaluate solutions in the River Hill area and has received projected cost estimates of upwards of $1.9 million for sanitary construction.

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

The strategic logic driving this transaction is compelling. The communications industry is at the beginning of a significant transformation of network technologies, applications, and services - one that is projected to enable converged services across service-provider networks, enterprise networks, and an array of personal devices. This presents extraordinary opportunities for our combined company to accelerate its growth.

The storm will likely continue to grow before it makes landfall right near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., roughly between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. is the projected time.

These results show that we will experience not only future climate change, but also the results of policies to reduce these changes, in ways that are not simply related to changes in the global mean temperature. Policy decisions about reducing greenhouse emissions should not, therefore, be dictated by projected changes in global mean temperature alone.

The stores we are closing are not performing to consistent levels required by our business model and are located in no-growth or rural markets that have either matured or never reached their projected potential from a housing start perspective.