Top 55 Rating Quotes

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president’s.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

With gridlock the norm, Congress’s approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Our men and women in uniform make enough sacrifices for our country. Their credit rating should not be one of those sacrifices.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn’t throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, ‘To err is Truman,’ yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

I didn’t grow up thinking to myself, ‘Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.’

I’ve been playing NBA Live since I was little, and I won’t lie, I always play with the team with the highest rating.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn’t want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

We have got this Damocles’ sword of Standard and Poor’s hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain’s credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

I’m often being singled out because of who my significant other is. That’s nice when his approval rating is 70 percent, not so nice when it’s not.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

When it comes to the ratings, I don’t know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I’ve learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I’ve felt like a movie wasn’t working, it didn’t work.

The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It’s unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.

A person’s credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America’s voluntary rating system meaningless.

A loach can’t emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won’t rise.

The Adia application has been co-created by the Adecco Group and the global technology leader, Infosys. It covers the full cycle of recruiting, matching, invoicing, and payrolling with state-of-the-art functionalities such as feedback and rating and geolocalization.

Whether you’re earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it’s very important to protect your credit rating.

Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

The problem with ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn’t sustain an R.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.

We’ve got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy’s acting like he’s king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

I have an A rating from the NRA.

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me ‘The Latino Mayor.’ By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn’t. I was everybody’s mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

I mean, it’s pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Morality aside, there are other factors deterring ‘strategic defaults,’ whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one’s home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower’s credit rating.

I don’t think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.

You need an R rating because without one, you can’t advertise and the film won’t get shown.

Much of Mr. Bush’s 28 percent approval rating is born not of ‘failed policies’ – of which there are many – but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.

I can just remember games as a young player, counting my stats on the sideline. ‘What am I now? I’m this many completions for this many attempts. I wonder what my rating is.’

Presidential candidates don’t get quite the upward favorable rating surge they used to after their nominating conventions.

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

When I made ‘Lil Boat,’ my first mixtape, I didn’t have a drop date, a due date. I didn’t have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we’re building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

The whole ‘R’ rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them.

I’m not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.