Constrained Quotes

Xbox does have a material impact for Microsoft in the December quarter because of the holiday shopping season. The fact it was capacity constrained in December will probably create some headwinds for their overall quarter. - David Hilal

With higher interest rates, fundamentals are starting to erode. We're looking for margins and earnings to be constrained going forward. - David Briggs

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive. - Dianne Feinstein

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands and potential frustrations. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. - Scott McClellan

When a war is long-lived and the outcome is not demonstrably positive, the lines of argument available to a president are seriously constrained. Democrat or Republican, 1960s or early part of the 21st century, you're going to hear a common rhetoric. - Kathleen Hall Jamieson

We've got to do better. We're not capital constrained, so we have to find the right opportunity that fits, but as we know there's not a lot of opportunity in Canada. - Rick Waugh

We're constrained on many levels. We subcontract our bread, but because of labor limitations at the bakery, we can't get our signature bread. So we're just taking regular French bread. We don't have enough manpower to cut our own fish, so we are subcontracting the actual filleting. It's a lot easier for us to judge the quality of a whole fish than it is to judge the quality of a fillet. But we don't have that luxury right now. - Rick Blount

We would still be buyers of oil stocks if we felt reassured that supply was going to be constrained in 2006, which we do. - Andrew Milligan