Impact Quotes

Zero impact on the deficit. - Scott McClellan

You've got to look at very long-term impacts, with people out of their homes for months or years. The magnitude of the population displaced is very troubling. You look at 'OK, how many of our hospitals might be functioning?' There are pockets of New Orleans that still don't have power. Where do you move these people if you have to move them? We don't have answers right now. - Rob Harper

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias. - Larry Rice

You've got oil prices and the economic news having an impact today. Obviously tomorrow it's all about unemployment. That's the wild card. - Tim Heekin

You've got limited impact so far for any of the insurers. When people are affected by it, it's a great buying opportunity shortly afterwards. - Justin Urquhart Stewart

You've got a lot of factors here all coming into play... Oil is having a negative impact and the pre-announcement news from Viacom was significant. You also had all the banks reporting strong earnings yesterday, but yet they're selling them off two days in a row, and we're near the end of the quarter and you've got portfolio managers wanting to cash out of the rally's recent leaders. - Tim Heekin

You're talking about a catastrophic disaster, with extensive damage. Look at the impacts of Katrina: You're going to get that all over again. - Dave Roberts

You're talking about a 6-8 guy on the wing who can flat-out get it and score. That's going to be the guy who has the best chance to make the biggest immediate impact. - Dave Telep

You're looking at basically doubling the production amounts, but the impact on Archer Daniels Midland depends on whether they increase their production capacity. - Monte Shaw

You're going to see production declines by both GM and Ford through 2008. That's going to have a negative impact on any supplier that has a large dependence on GM and Ford. - Brad Rubin