Richard Clark Quotes (23 Quotes)

They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism,

I can tell you that reducing the work force by 11 percent, removing 4 billion of ongoing costs from the system and coming up with a new business model to me seems pretty competitive.

There are governments that are building units, military units and intelligence units, to engage in information warfare. They are developing capabilities, they are building the units, and in some cases they seem to be doing reconnaissance on our computer networks.

We've got a good department. We've got a lot of good officers working for the public and protecting their interest.

The company also anticipates returning to bottom-line EPS growth, excluding restructuring charges, beginning in 2007.

We are engaged in an ongoing effort to enhance efficiencies throughout the company and improve the way we discover, develop, manufacture and market our medicines and vaccines.

(The number) ought to be visible and it ought to have to be in one place.

I miss working in narcotics, but I like the stability of working for the police department.

The problem with an article like that is that we haven't had time to talk to employees. We're very unhappy. We want to tell our employees first.

We continue to believe we can generate compound annualized revenue growth, including 50 of the revenues from the joint ventures from which the company derives equity income, of between 4 to 6 through 2010. We also believe we can deliver double-digit compound earnings growth, excluding restructuring charges, over the next three to five years.

I really thought that letter was poorly stated and it irritated me.

Merck has always been very financially conservative in the past, so we can not only fund the dividend and fund the running of the company but me can fund an acquisition.

The actions we are announcing today are an important first step in positioning Merck to meet the challenges the company faces now and in the future,

Merck will remain a research-driven pharmaceutical company, but we need to change our approach to virtually every aspect of our business and we must act with a sense of urgency.

As part of our strategy going forward we are aggressively looking at alliances and joint ventures and acquisitions of biotech companies.

I'm confident this first phase of the restructuring plan sets the course for us.

We believe they will improve our earnings-per-share and ultimately enhance our shareholder value.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

The e-mails are not as implied. It's like guilt by association.

Even the bad people you have to treat with respect. You have to treat everyone with respect.

I've just been picking his brain.

You need to continue to work on your cost element. But you're not going to save your way to growth. You need to develop products.

Trying to make the race finals is a challenge in itself. He did amazingly well for an asphalt-track background.