Usable Quotes

We've decided that it's time to shift our posture in Europe and Asia and around the world and move from static defense, which does not make much sense today, to a more deployable and usable set of capabilities. - Donald Rumsfeld

We're six months now after the storm, and there are still large swaths of [New Orleans] that look like they did a month after the storm. It's just inexcusable. - Matt Fellowes

We're playing our best ball right now... The way we played earlier in the year, I can't explain it, I can't defend, it was inexcusable. But somehow we turned it around. Don't ask me, because I haven't got the answer, But we're a different team today than what you saw in May and June. - Brian Cashman

We're just not getting it done. I'm not getting the message across. This really bothers me. I know I'm responsible, but guys have got to do it. It's inexcusable to be going through this losing streak. Losing doesn't sit well with me. It shouldn't sit well with anybody. We have to keep working. I know no other way. There's no magic potion. - Alan Trammell

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant. - Lord Robertson

We would call upon the opposition to Prop. 71 to now respect the voters' mandate and drop the appeal. Any delay at this point is inexcusable. - Robert Klein

We want to know why his name was flagged in the computer. This has happened to Muslims and Arabs, their names are put on 'watch lists.' And then they are treated like criminals, in this case, during a routine traffic stop. It is inexcusable. - Waheed Khalid

We take it to the basic component. We shred it. It goes through a magnetic belt. It comes back as reusable plastic. - Ray Harris

We take anything that's good, clean and usable. - Barbara Dunneback