Bernard Ebbers Quotes (16 Quotes)

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,

Opposition to this merger just adds to the list of (Federal Communications Commission Chairman William) Kennard-Klein policies that ultimately will reduce innovation and choice and raise the cost of telephone services for residential customers, particularly those in rural America,

I do not believe I have anything to hide, I believe that no one will conclude that I engaged in any criminal or fraudulent conduct.

I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

The ridiculousness ... because these individuals are first offenders who are unlikely to commit a crime again.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

With this merger, WorldCom accelerates by 12-to-18 months our ability to provide world-class managed Web and application hosting services -- one of the highest growth markets in the industry,

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

We have now hit the ground running with new products and we will soon be in full stride as one company.

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

It is very clear from our financial performance that our employees remained focused on delivering results. Our core management and employee strength -- which has predominantly come from successful mergers over the years -- continues to drive industry-leading performance,

The merger will greatly expand our total number of local networks and advance our entrance into more secondary cities by as much as two years,