Pete Peterson Quotes (17 Quotes)

No one blow is going to be terminal, ... But this is another very serious one. All this does is add to the increasing loss of confidence in our systems.

This today was a real step and what I felt is a maturity in this relationship,

I can imagine a commission of the quality that I mentioned saying taxes have to be on the table, and saying it not just to the president, but to the public. That kind of group might perform a very important function, which is to awaken the country on what the risks are here.

I don't necessarily think anyone is looking for an apology.

It was Bill Clinton who opened up and had the vision for moving ahead rather aggressively with our relationship with Vietnam, when in many senses it may not have been to any political advantage of his, ... He saw this as an opportunity for America to heal wounds and to build bridges.

The cooperation in the fullest possible accounting is excellent and we need to give the Vietnamese credit for having stayed the course on that,

Qualcomm will still get royalties, because they have key intellectual property rights for using CDMA in mobile telephony, ... What is a little more at risk is what it means for Qualcomm in terms of their chipset business.

The thing we're going to want to know is where do unit sales go moving forward, ... We'd like to see plans for unit growth to continue along with margin growth.

What we're against is forced annexations. The picketing isn't against Mitch or the state, but to call attention to what the GOP (membership of the Fishers council) is doing.

Qualcomm's strength was in selling chipsets into its own technology, ... Inasmuch as China does not, on a dominant scale, deploy Qualcomm's technology, the prospects for their chip business are changed.

First the noise is incredible. Then there was a lull while (attackers) tried to hear you, then the bombs came down again. I would crouch and think that, if I ever got out of this alive, I'd never let the small problems of life bother me.

The basic opportunity ... is to truly establish American policy toward Vietnam in a normal situation.

Now it looks like the pie is going to have a significant portion of WCDMA in it, and the investment community has not developed a comfortable consensus on what that means, ... That's why we're seeing the fluctuation.

(That relationship would) bring stability to a region and to a country that has been obviously destabilized for decades and decades.

No one came to us and gave us a choice they just came to us and said here it is. You have to take it you can't do anything about it. And you're going to have to pay lots more money for it. And we don't think that's fair.

We'd be gone for three or four months at a time, coming back and retrieving all that back pay every time. We bought the whole town, sometimes.

You couldn't have imagined this occurring four or five years ago, certainly, maybe not even two or three years ago. And here we are now, two nations standing side by side with essentially the same purposes, the same goals,