Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Jim Horney

Despite what you may hear from the administration and from Congress, this CBO report does not provide evidence that the tax cuts are working and that they can be extended without worrying about large deficits.

Ron Bonjean

The Speaker thinks it's a good move on their part so that Congress can properly review this deal.

Ted Cruz

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Gene Kimmelman

These were exaggerations. The market isn't developing to a competitive status nearly as fast as they had predicted and prices are going up for consumers. Consumers are getting the short end because these exaggerations drove Congress to a plan that was premature,

Thomas Jefferson

I served with General Washington in the Legislature of Virginia... and... with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Chellie Pingree

It would make an enormous difference. It's a much higher hurdle to cross if everyone knows who you are talking to -- especially if there is a big vote in Congress the next day.

Janet Yellen

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

John Wagner

depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

Tully Lehman

Depending on the size of the event it will take some time before someone can come out.

Marjorie Brody

Depending on the room setup, stay in the back or quietly pull up a chair,

David Patrick

Depending on the industry you're in 10 percent to 80 percent of employees can migrate to a Linux desktop now.

Scott Thompson

Depending on our reservation status, we make that permanent.

Marco Rubio

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Robert Adams

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

Lech Walesa

If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

Martin Luther

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits....

Eminem

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

Elvis Costello

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

J. K. Rowling

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

Rick Riordan

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

Ma Jun

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

Jane D. Hull

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Calvin Coolidge

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

Ricky Nolasco

I got off the bus, I noticed nobody had their luggage. 'Where are our bags?' I got to the lobby and I still couldn't find it.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Maisie Williams

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

Don Cheadle

People saw the film and said, 'Wow that was terrible. I wish I had known.' Now you know.

Rodney Clark

People roll down their windows and say, 'Sorry for your loss.'

Armando Navarro

People respond to fear. They respond when their self-interests are going to be impacted.

Joakim Noah

People remember champions. That's the way it is.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

Albert Einstein

We are here for the sake of others

Robert Frost

All great things are done for their own sake.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Sri Aurobindo

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.