Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Bob Dole

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility: the constituent has a problem, ... We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything?' That's not what they elect you for.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Will Rogers

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

Maurice Hinchey

What we are trying to do is demonstrate to the Fed that there is a strong interest in Congress to keep interest rates the way they are, ... There is no sign of inflation, no reason to raise rates.

Harry Miller

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

Michael Defensor

I think we really need a joint resolution from Congress to effect the tax exemption on oil.

Andrew Forman

I think we're probably looking at the week of June 5th, ... He'll probably want to sign it when Congress is back in Washington.

Phil Smith

I think what Sen. Specter has introduced is a very good step in the right direction and we're looking forward to Congress passing legislation to improve the safety of miners.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Ralph Willard

Kevin got hit in the face during practice the other day and was in agony. His status is up in the air, and if he plays I'm not sure how effective he will be.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

Phil Garner

I think it had a little effect on him.

James King

I think it?d be more effective if you got your top off.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Trevor Hughes

It can have a real effect as to how many people say yes.

Joe Girardi

I actually thought Vargas was better tonight. He was down in the zone. He just threw a lot of pitches. I thought he was more effective tonight than in his last start.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Karl Marx

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

S. Walker

They said I have a separated joint in my left shoulder,

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Karl Albrecht

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Kent Conrad

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

Joshua Slocum

No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.