Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Harry Reid

It is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

Jon Burnham

IBM  ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is another company which I think is one of great Internet plays in the next three or four years, and one of the differences between IBM and others is they're earning billions of dollars. So I think IBM can be bought. I don't think it's expensive here.

Michael King

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Jeff Bingaman

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

George Bell

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars,

Maria Cantwell

I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle.

Dean Baker

If Medicare could negotiate directly with drug companies it could save the federal and state governments hundred of billions of dollars and cut insurance premiums.

Joe Barton

In 1981, there were 324 operating refineries in the boundaries of the United States. Today there are 148. Do the math. There are a lot of reasons for it, but one of the reasons is the law as it exists today, ... What company's board of directors in its right mind would want to go through this complicated process and tie up billions of dollars for years and years if they weren't certain whether this process would wrap up in a timely fashion?

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Peter Thiel

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

John Pavlik

I think it's going to keep getting bigger. I don't now how the phone companies are going to react. It doesn't make any sense for consumers to pay for something they can get for free,

Bible Bible

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

Ben Wallace

He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.

Erik Thomson

He can see something and in a quick and unemotional way he can cut the fat off. You trust him implicitly because of his track record.

James Leavitt

He is probably physically incapable of doing the sort of thing they are suggesting he was doing. It takes a lot of work to cut through a limb. He maintains his innocence completely.

E. Hurley

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Chuck Johnston

Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig, and it squawks and everything.

Adriano Belli

He's a cute little guy, ... I hope I can ruffle his feathers a little bit.

Bobby Douglas

He's a byproduct of the Cyclones, so we'll have our work cut out for us. Any time we meet people that have our people in their program, it's going to be difficult.

John Bores

Her speed is down a lot. She can?t really cut loose or let it go the way she wants to.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Cameron Johnson

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

John McCarthy

We're not working with American on this issue. We have proffered the offer directly to the shipping company.

Charles Polk

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

Stanlyn Placencia

I think we're progressing. I don't think we're directly on target, but there is progression.

Jenny Lehman

In addition, there has been a lot of donations made online and through the 800 number, but that figure is the money that has come directly through our door.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Alan Colman

It has undoubtedly harmed the image not just in Singapore, where I directly feel it has impacted our prospects.

John Leo

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Russell Taylor

Today marks a day when we are awarding more dollars in the first quarter than we have ever before.

Robbie Amell

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Muhammad Ali

I'd like to live to a hundred

John Corlett

I think the public's primary consideration when they shop for insurance is price.

Trevor Rowe

If you're in the insurance industry, you want to be able to diversify your portfolio because that spreads your risk.

Joe Biden

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Carolyn Gorman

The master policy will have liability insurance in it for shared spaces, like sidewalks, gutters and walkways.

Cynthia Bartlett

It's a family-type plaza. People will make insurance payments and then do shopping in our store and others. It's one-stop shopping.

Jerry Cunningham

They're going to get to a point where they're not on their parents' insurance any longer.

Chris Bowers

They're my kids. If you had your kid wouldn't you have insurance on them?

Chris Bowers

Read the exclusions just like on any insurance policy, but I still think it's worth it.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Marco Rubio

There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.

Lawrence Story

They operated under our Medicare number. We leased the space to them, but they did not have a Medicare-provider arrangement.

Linda Gholston

Once we get our Medicare license, we'll open one wing.

Jim Turner

We went from 500 Medicare members to 2 Medicare members.

Donald Trump

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

John W. Snow

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

John Poole

Medicare picked up drug coverage, but no one picked up the transportation costs.

Christopher Dodd

Medicare has been one of the most successful, popular programs since its inception,

Kent Conrad

My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts.

Jack Roush

He said, 'I don't want to negotiate with you for 2007,' ... I said, 'OK,' and he said, 'I want to be released for 2006.' I said 'not OK.'

Robin Cook

It is politically and diplomatically possible to negotiate withdrawal

Victor Lazarovici

I think they'll negotiate with antitrust authorities and will come up with a solution.

Lee Miller

People who understand how to negotiate are always going to do better.

Tom Davies

If there are problems here, we need to look at the contracting officers. They're the ones who negotiate the deal.

Keith Rothfus

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Bill Richardson

They're very dogmatic. The North Koreans, they are very programmed, they have their policy statements they don't want to diverge from. They're very doctrinaire. They don't negotiate like others -- quid pro quo.

Steve Perry

We have to go through minefields that we have to negotiate just to reach the listener,

Mike Boyd

Unions don't give in easily. It's going to be ugly, and Parker can't do much about it but negotiate with the winner.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Larry Small

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you,

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.