Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

Barack Obama

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Adam Adelman

Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.

Richard Petersen

Software companies all want to be able to offer more product and more value for the same price.

Daniel Boone

Solid tech companies are not overpriced at all,

James Park

Right now I think the expectation is that a lot of these companies are meeting muted estimates. I think you'll see earnings guided higher, but that outlooks will be tempered.

Steve Outing

Rich media and multimedia content are much more popular, ... Media companies are more willing to put in the money to produce it. They recognize that people can now use it.

Michael Sandler

People were giving money to companies who weren't worth anything. It was just absurd.

Paul Ford

People want to put their money in companies with strong earnings, and many of these companies are expected to deliver that.

Marc Cohen

Philip Morris is one of the most powerful consumer product companies in the world. They have a lot of irons in the fire.

Tim Henman

I had difficult times last year and I was pretty frustrated with everything.

Tony Russa

If you're a scout and you see a guy who can swing like that you say, 'this is a guy with tools. But it's a real difficult thing to jump into.

Mark Tinker

If you're facing the consumer, it's difficult to make money. The stock market is going to be more and more selective.

Rick Wagoner

If you laid out the worst-case scenario, it could get very difficult for everybody,

Scott Cowen

If you lost an entire year, it would be very difficult to retain students and to retain faculty, ... They, because of the risk associated, would feel like they should transfer somewhere else.

Ricky Williams

If you look at it, it had to be more difficult for them having to travel on the day of the game. We can't use that as an excuse. Any day we play, any time we play, we have to be ready to perform.

Nancy Stewart

If you've got enthusiastic girls, it's not a difficult undertaking, and I do and they're very excited about it. But you have to teach them a whole new game they've never played before. We have no interest in winning championships right now, because we're starting a legacy, and these girls are excited about that.

Hank Bounds

In some of those places that lost several schools, that 5 percent can be a substantial number. And when they're already cash-strapped, that's going to be a real difficult issue for them.

Janet Reno

In some instances, local prosecutors and investigators do not have the resources to proceed and it is a difficult process trying to make sure there is funding. In other instances there's an unwillingness to proceed,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anne Michaels

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Anne M. Mulcahy

By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders.

Anne Lamott

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Ann Voskamp

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.

Alber Elbaz

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Albert J. Nock

If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.

Amanda Hocking

I know you’ll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that’s more than these people deserve,” she said. “But don’t give too much. You need to keep some of yourself for you. And listen to your heart.

Annie Besant

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.