Puttering Quotes

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. - Dick Morris

What's been extraordinary about this president, Tim, and what's unique about this president is not that the administration is sputtering but rather everything he's taken on he's been able to accomplish. - Ken Mehlman

We're situated right where the planes come into the approach into Cottage Grove Airport, so we're used to the planes coming by, and this guy was pretty low. Heard some sputtering, and looked up and his propellers were kind of not moving very fast. Right when he hit the corner over the river, they were not moving at all. - Mike Arnold

We're a better shooting team because of what Gregg Gottlieb has done every single day in practice for 10-15 minutes without fail. And we have become a team that you better not foul us, because we're going to make every free throw. That wins games. We'll take it and not apologize. If you have good players and you have talent, you can find a way that when you are sputtering a bit, hold on and get a win. We did that. - Steve Fisher

We were just sputtering and beating ourselves. - Plaxico Burress

We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish. - Jeff Schaffer

We looked like we were a little tired. But our guys have been battling. I'm on the train with them, whether it gets rocky or not. Right now we are just sputtering. - Avery Johnson

We can't blame anyone but ourselves. We didn't play as well as we wanted to. We know we were sputtering offensively and defensively. It's kind of a slap in the face and now we're in the position we're in. - Plaxico Burress

We came in with a game plan, where we wanted to run early and set the tempo. Our offense had been sputtering our last few games, so we looked at films and saw that we'd been walking the ball up the floor. - George Sourlis

Think of the metrics; eleven Fed actions in the last year, a stimulus package that will come from our leadership in Washington... The economy was sputtering prior to the 11th of September. We're now seeing clear leadership on both the fiscal and monetary standpoint. We're getting some good news from corporate earnings. There is a lot to be optimistic about. - Richard Grasso