You have to have your eye on the prize. We've reached this point after more than 40 years of negotiating with Turkey. This is the next major step.

It's just nerves. You take your eye off the prize and it just slips away from you. You think you've made it and all of a sudden football's got a funny way of knocking you in the teeth. I still fancy them because they're a very good side. Leeds are doing well but they're dropping points as well. If United can keep their nerve I think they can do it.

She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked.

The need for more funding has reached a critical point.

We all have our eye on the prize of not just the top 10, but someday being considered among the top five.

We had two very successful forays to [U.S. regulators], ... We perceive that the U.S. negotiating position has changed and that they are prepared to decouple the two issues.