Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Don Rickles

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

Bill Hader

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

Wislawa Szymborska

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Mother Jones

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Richard DeVos

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Johnathon Schaech

The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!

Ann Sexton

The American Red Cross recommends that you have (a minimum of) a gallon of water per family member in your households per day.

Patrick Marber

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

Mark Shand

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Bill Vaughan

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

Kofi Annan

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

Jason Giambi

We could have easily had the momentum swing and gotten swept. We could have turned this into a disaster.

Orlando Bloom

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Tom DeLay

We will raise the Katrina disaster as the top priority for the House, but at the same time we have other work that we will be working on,

Robert Johnson

Usually, they're sent overseas when there is a disaster,

Octavia E. Butler

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Mindy Talmadge

We haven't removed them because in the event of a major disaster, they still work.

Tim Pawlenty

Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?

Doug Elmendorf

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Ethan Harris

Usually the federal government takes a much more limited role in natural disasters.

William Millar

It is fitting that the TTI study on traffic congestion is being released the same day that the federal surface transportation program known as TEA 21 expires.

Bob Johannessen

We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did.

Andrei Kostin

We are now working with the Federal Property Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the government apparatus. I think our proposals will be ready in April.

Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Ric Williamson

We followed the rules and regulations of the federal government. The process that has been followed in the last year was as open and as transparent as the law and the regulations permit.

Bill Rogers

We have a very good shield law in South Carolina, but we don't have a federal one.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Devin Nunes

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

Buzz Aldrin

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Scott Walker

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

John Thune

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.