Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women,… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in… — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is… — Christopher Cross Copy Share Image
The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions. — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
