Pluses Quotes

You can argue that it's in everybody's interest to maintain a positive spin, but the point is the fundamentals in Indonesia and across the region are healthier than the case in 1997-98, particularly with most of the countries running current account surpluses and not dependent on borrowings from overseas. - David Cohen

With $2.8 billion in oil revenue surpluses, I think we could have spent a few million to help promote and show North America what a great province we live in. - Scott Buchanan

We've been swinging the bats, and we got decent pitching, two nice pluses to have. - Dave Moates

We would like to let him know about the international view of the situation. We have to hold talks in an orderly way about what the pluses and minuses are for the country, its neighbors and (oil) importers like us. - Taro Aso

We just weren't good on third and long... The down that should be the easiest to be good on was the down we had penalties or big plays - seven to eight third and 6-pluses were where we just didn't execute. On first and 10 and second and 10 we played well. - Jay Johnson

We do a rating system and the guy at the top of the list is Dirk. When you put all of the categories together and do the pluses and the minuses, and add and subtract and divide it by minutes played he comes out with a very high number against us. ... People that have hurt you, you try to take out of what they've done well. - Mike Fratello

We didn't get the stops we needed to really close the game. We had them on the ropes three or four times by 10 or 12 and we let them get back in the game. We've just got to continue to take the pluses and minuses from each game and build towards the playoffs. - Jermaine O'Neal