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.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Kevin Schieffer

I just read the decision, and it is positive. We are very pleased with the outcome and glad that is done. It has been five days short of eight years. We filed for a permit Feb. 20, 1998.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Brad Penny

I just didn't locate pitches. All night I wasn't locating pitches. It's days like that you try to get through innings.

Jeff Harris

I just couldn't find it. It was just one of those days where things didn't go my way.

Scott Olsen

I pitched not as well as I could have. I'm incredibly happy that we won. We definitely needed a win. We don't have to spend two days thinking about it. But myself, I could have done a lot better.

John Mendel

(Civic Hybrid inventory) is going to vary by dealer, but they are well under short supply - three days on the lot essentially.

Randy Cross

Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.

Jeff Wilkinson

Because it's an ordinance change, we have to wait at least 30 days before the ordinance takes affect.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lizzie Grubman

I'm looking forward to MTV viewers seeing the hard work and long hours it takes to run your own business. It's difficult, but it's also a ton of fun and there is nothing that I would rather do.

Randy Brown

I'm looking forward to it. It'll be a good opportunity for us.

Micky Arison

I'm looking forward to an interesting period. We have a lot of opportunities obviously for the league and a lot of challenges, and I look forward to working with the league office to help in any way I can.

Greg Jones

I'm looking forward to actually getting things done. This is going to be something that I think is going to be good; it's taking Student Government in a new direction.

Drew Miller

I'm looking forward it. It'll be a nice little break.

David Catania

I'm pleased that we were able to move forward on this important health issue.

Curtis Joseph

I'm just going to go home and see the family, I haven't seen them in a while. Certainly, there's a lot to look forward to this summer.

Michael Dixon

I'm just looking forward to the next challenge.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Morgan Betscher

We thought we got gypped a little. We thought we'd get a four or a five.

Brent Walston

I think that we have two to four girls that can help her with the scoring.

Maurice Greene

I think the 3 medals are between four people ,

Steven Aftergood

It is ironic, ... We sued the C.I.A. four times for this kind of information and lost. You can't get it through legal channels.

Mike Rathgeber

Last year, it took us six meets to get that relay team under four minutes.

Dave Roberts

Last year I think the situation we were in was a lot tougher task than the situation we're in right now, because we were down to three outs, and had to win four straight games,

John McKay

I will be disappointed if we do not win three or four medals,

Sasha Roiz

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

Dan Leistikow

It's not for the governor to pick a number out of the air.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.