Premise Quotes

You know, that's racist within itself. I mean, what you're saying is that if you're minority, you can't have a good school if you've got minorities, so you view minorities as a liability that you balance around. That is the underlying racist point when you start with that premise and say we have to balance minority numbers and diversity numbers, your premise that you start out with is that minority students are an inferior student and that's where the racist comment and thought pattern comes from. - Lindsey Tippins

You had corporations setting up all around the premises there ... [it's] what they call guerilla marketing. - Roland Swenson

You can't go on the premise of the tournament. Now you're talking about getting down to how individual teams match up. - Tim Brando

Worldwide, the two most expensive sights are the green sight or the blue sight; blue meaning sea, water or ocean and green meaning parks, mountains or golf courses, ... And that's the biggest difference. We have strategically placed the homes onto the premises to maximize the view. - David Chu

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. - Eric Liu

When you're upgrading a technology that involves an organization's payroll, there's a great deal of parallel testing that needs to be done. The dirty little secret in the EIM market is that on-premise solutions have been and continue to be very expensive to purchase and implement. That's because of the complexities that surround sales compensation plans. These tools are being asked to operate in extremely complex environments. - Bob Conlin

When you take a look at hosted services, you are taking the call system off the customer's premises and putting it into the data center. One issue is that when you outsource, then it is out of your control. If it needs to be close to you, outsourcing it is not going to work. - Ted Chamberlin

When you hear the premise you think, 'Oh no, please,' but it's upbeat. I think it's intriguing and well done. - Phil Rosenthal

When the inspection was conducted the school was still very much a construction site. There was a lot of cleanup that needed to be done. There were still workers on the premises doing some painting. - Kevin Finch