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AGOST BENARD The fact that the suspension is lifted is obviously very positive news.
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When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
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ERSKINE BOWLES [Sri Lanka and Little Rock] are definitely different, but the climate is not that different, the pro...
CHRIS WEEKS He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the c...
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M.I.A. The country's adherence to fiscal discipline, despite low debt levels, is commendable and reassuring...
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I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was al...
PAUL WALKER Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese,...
M.I.A. Companies have seen that through us they get more bang for their advertising dollar. Right now, our ...
DANIEL KLEIN We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, ...
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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GREG CHAPPELL You bowled really well yesterday (against Sri Lanka). But if you could extend your run up by just a ...
COLIN CROFT The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party...
MATT TAIBBI
TASNEEM AHMED The balance of payments crisis sounds rather dry but it really would have a devastating impact on th...
BRIAN AITKEN
I think they've just slightly had the edge over Sri Lanka and I think Sri Lanka probably rely on too... RICKY PONTING
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message fo... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM His contribution (to Sri Lanka) was immense.
BERNARD GOONETILLEKE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a perce... BILL GROSS A prolonged deterioration in the security environment could relegate economic reforms from the gover...
BEATRIZ MERINO We haven't been pushed to three games for many years and Sri Lanka are a credit to themselves.
ANDREW SYMONDS
We ... believe that a military solution to Sri Lanka is not possible ... We are supportive of the No... THOMAS PICKERING He is still experiencing pain in his right shin and with the Test series against Sri Lanka due to st...
PETER GREGORY
Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP... ALAN GREENSPAN I will make a decision on how many matches I should play for Essex after the Sri Lanka tour.
DANISH KANERIA This looks more and more like a constitutional coup here in Sri Lanka.
KASRA NAJI A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM It'll be a milestone if Sri Lanka can do an international bond.
DESMOND SOON The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The UK is the largest European investor in Sri Lanka and I especially look forward to meeting with U...
IAN PEARSON
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have ... ROMESH GUNESEKERA This had a tremendous impact on the aviation and tourism related sectors, bearing in mind that Europ...
BARRY BROWN One hundred percent of the donations are applied to the reconstruction. No administrative costs and ...
MIKE COSTELLO In this crucial hour, we must transcend all differences and work for an undivided Sri Lanka as a uni...
CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGA The main frustration we had with Sri Lanka was although they weren't imposing customs duties on good...
CHRIS WEEKS I think that an Australian side without Adam Gilchrist is not nearly as strong as with him in the te...
ARJUNA RANATUNGA While Alberta continues to set the standard for fiscal performance in Canada, B.C. has significantly...
NIELS VELDHUIS I am trying to get into shape for the season. I hope to be fit for the Sri Lanka series.
SOURAV GANGULY
I am satisfied after my performance in India-Sri Lanka series and expecting to repeat same in Pakist... HARBHAJAN SINGH Persistent deficit spending can create problems for monetary policy. When fiscal authorities run lar...
DALLAS FED
It is not easy to ignore a bid when India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh decide to come togethe... SHARAD PAWAR
Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and... MURRAY ROTHBARD This experience will be to his and the West Indies youth team's benefit for next month's Youth World...
JOEY CAREW
It is fantastic news. We need him back, and it will be good to have him facing the first ball (in th... KEVIN PIETERSEN
We will stick to our plan and play an aggressive game, the way we played recently against Sri Lanka ... HARBHAJAN SINGH The ratings on South Africa are supported by the sovereign's prudent macroeconomic policies, a moder...
BEATRIZ MERINO Your eyes are the light of your heart and do not make your soul dark”.
Ravi Satha...
RAVI SATHAIVAM / SRI LANKA From what we have seen in the past few games, they are more than capable of missing out on the final...
ARJUNA RANATUNGA The government will respond in a more prompt and appropriate way. They will be in a better position ...
AGOST BENARD What we would look for is a gradual phasing out of the fuel subsidy and a more effective and coordin...
AGOST BENARD Sharp declines in the government?s external debt indicators and structural improvements that, over t...
AGOST BENARD We have yet to see how the law is going to be implemented, how much revenues would it generate and h...
AGOST BENARD have tended to be slow, reactive, and incremental over the past year.
AGOST BENARD The fact that the suspension is lifted is obviously very positive news.
AGOST BENARD Local and provincial governance needs to be improved. There will have to be hard budget constraints.
AGOST BENARD If you look at the state of the value-added-tax, it has been subject to a lot of delays and setbacks...
AGOST BENARD In a rapidly evolving environment such as that which we are facing in the global energy markets, the...
AGOST BENARD The outlook could revert to stable if substantial and tangible progress is achieved in maintaining t...
AGOST BENARD The stable outlook reflects revised expectations concerning the prospects of policy continuity and a...
AGOST BENARD In light of the bank's public policy role and the track record of strong support from the Indian gov...
AGOST BENARD The downward trend in deficit reduction must be continued to warrant an upgrade. Something must be d...
AGOST BENARD “Every time you try to conform to other people’s expectations you are unhappy. When you are who ...
DHAMMIKA DHARMAWARDHANE Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri La...
SHYAM SELVADURAI My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth i...
M.I.A. The market is dithering, because on the one hand we have the interest-rate gap, but on the other we ...
FUMIHIKO KAWANO
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some sma... ROMESH GUNESEKERA
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights rec... DAVID SUZUKI When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come ri...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ The federal government is in great fiscal position and doesn't need to issue as much debt. In terms ...
WARREN LOVELY The purpose of the visit is to brief India about what Norway had been doing. We will assist both Ind...
ERIK SOLHEIM The United States stands firmly in support of a solution that offers justice and human rights for al...
JOE LOCKHART He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is...
KIRAN MORE The council's debt levels in the near term are likely to remain at levels consistent with the curren...
DANIELLE WESTWATER
The Bush administration has spent us into record deficits and piled mountains of debt onto our child... NANCY PELOSI The product is aimed at benefiting over 1.5 billion non-English speaking people in South Asia, inclu...
AJAY GUPTA Someone tell this man that there are 660,000 refugees (displaced persons) in Sri Lanka. Some displac...
BAILAMAN These growing deficits and debt threaten our nation's long-term economic security. As deficits climb...
KENT CONRAD
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka. ROMESH GUNESEKERA
He was the unsung hero in the one-day series against South Africa and Sri Lanka (in India late last ... RAHUL DRAVID In general, the twin deficits (trade and federal) will be an ongoing source of volatility in the dol...
ALAN GAYLE
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Jon Lewis and Stuart Broad have both shown fine early-season form for their counties and I'm sure th...
DAVID GRAVENEY If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the...
ERSKINE BOWLES [Sri Lanka and Little Rock] are definitely different, but the climate is not that different, the pro...
CHRIS WEEKS He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the c...
FARUQUE AHMED I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, an...
M.I.A. The country's adherence to fiscal discipline, despite low debt levels, is commendable and reassuring...
ALBERTO RAMOS
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at... WILL ROGERS Due to uncertainty over interest rates, along with the bull-run on the stock market, institutional i...
KATSUTOSHI INADOME Operating revenues from the Rose Garden -- including all the revenues from suites, club seats, conce...
PAUL ALLEN Sri Lanka is our country. Our culture, our race, our people. Sometimes we forget this, forget that g...
DHAMMIKA DHARMAWARDHANE
I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewh... ROMESH GUNESEKERA
Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of u... ROMESH GUNESEKERA
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fa... MICHAEL ONDAATJE We expect the restructuring plan to provide ongoing cost savings and enable Lucent to break-even in ...
ARIANE MAHLER We need to remember that Florida has $22.5 billion in long-term debt ... True fiscal conservatives b...
DOMINIC CALABRO
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... ALEXANDER COCKBURN Then he gave some specifics on the bad debt situation, perhaps more detail than we would have expect...
JEFFREY YOUNG
I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was al... PAUL WALKER Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese,...
M.I.A. Companies have seen that through us they get more bang for their advertising dollar. Right now, our ...
DANIEL KLEIN We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, ...
LUIS VIDEGARAY CASO Bill Roberts has worked for British Swimming on child protection issues and on working with vulnerab...
DAVE RICHARDS It is a great match and our ongoing business plan is to focus on a solid, high-quality asset base wi...
BRADLEY JOHNSON I think I was quite clever about it. I could have still carried on fielding against Sri Lanka, but I...
HERSCHELLE GIBBS
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. WILL ROGERS In both the finals in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe we got into positions from where we should have won but...
GREG CHAPPELL You bowled really well yesterday (against Sri Lanka). But if you could extend your run up by just a ...
COLIN CROFT The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party...
MATT TAIBBI
