Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Jim Horney

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

Abby Ottenhoff

We see a lot of merit in the bill, but it is a budget issue. It would have to be worked out as part of the budget process.

Susan Collins

FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith. There are many good people who work at FEMA. But they have lacked the leaders, the tools, the systems, and the budget to be effective.

Lindsey Graham

There's so much opportunity here to go back into the budget and extract some savings to help pay for this hurricane relief that I look at it as an opportunity for the Congress to get back to its roots of being fiscally sound and conservative, ... Maybe something good can come from this hurricane.

Alan Greenspan

There should be little disagreement about the need to re-establish budget discipline,

Jerry Rogers

There's frightening information in there. Our school budget has gone up 140 percent over the 13 years.

Frank Tursi

The sites are chosen to capture a variety of land uses.

Ken Bacon

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.

Doug Marrs

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Leander Paes

They are all hardworking and fun to be with. But a captain is only as good as his team and not the other way round.

LeBron James

That's like my cape. If you knock a super hero's cape off, they get very angry.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Roger Altman

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

Dave Woodruff

We did over 100,000 pounds of crab, but it isn't enough. My plant is capable of running 1.5 million pounds of crab.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Rick White

Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace. They know there's something called the Internet out there. But most of 'em don't know how to use it and most of 'em aren't very familiar with it.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Michael Crye

The cruise lines cooperated with Congress in gathering these statistics to further demonstrate that cruising is an exceptionally safe vacation.

Steve Alexander

This is a great victory. . . . We heard predictions and from many critics and pundits that Congress would never repeal the Byrd amendment.

Justin Jones

This is a hunting license. It doesn't mean we've bagged the deer, but it means we get to go for the money. And it isn't just any license. It's a license from the president to go to Congress and get the money.

Tom Daschle

This is a Congress that is much more interested in investigating than legislating,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Ryan Pease

I don't want to think about what I eat. It should become natural by then.

Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Theodore Roosevelt

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

Theodore Roosevelt

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

Michael Enzi

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.