Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Samuel Best

Everybody loves their congressman and hates Congress. You sort of evaluate your own personal situation by standards that you know, but when you're evaluating everybody else, you do it by what you hear.

Max Baucus

These people need help. They need to know Congress is doing something, too.

James McGovern

After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the administration.

Mike Huckabee

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Menzies Campbell

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

David Moyes

We are short in the striking department and we need to act.

Joe Viterelli

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

Jim Haslett

Obviously, it was not exactly the way we wanted to get going.

O. Singh

I saw my swing on video, and I found out exactly what I was doing wrong, and it was the same mistake that I've been doing forever. I worked really hard last week, tried to fix it, and it's on the way, I guess.

Earl Wilson

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

Stuart Hoffman

These are exactly the kinds of things the Fed likes too see. Signs of a slowing in housing and still-contained inflation are the kinds of numbers that speak to the Fed stopping in May, making that their last rate hike.

Travis Ward

We're kind of waiting to see exactly what they're going to need. We know they're going to need money ... our homes are open to them.

Tony Stewart

It's probably the hardest top-10 finish we've ever run here, but we did exactly what we needed to do tonight with the circumstances that we had. It finished out just fine.

David Walton

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.

John Corcoran

They will replace exactly what was there before the storm. And nothing more.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Burt Shavitz

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.