Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Tom Daschle

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Rea Hederman

The idea that the federal government can control the economy like a master can control a pet is erroneous, ... There's no magic wand that Bush can wave.

Jay Rockefeller

And really there was no sense of urgency. That was vastly frustrating to a 30-year professional who had been doing counterterrorism for four different presidents. ... He wanted to get things done and was frustrated by the Bush administration.

David Peterschmidt

And I think President Bush is going to get his tax cut, which also is going to help. But the consumer is a big part of what's important here. So far the consumer confidence has been okay, but it's the cautiousness of the consumer, I think, that's making a lot of corporations more cautious in their spending.

John Greene

A lot has changed between 2004 and 2006. President Bush is not nearly as popular. There are scandals in Washington. The war in Iraq is lingering on. And there are other policy problems. So it may very well be that Republicans will look to social issues, and phenomena like the marriage amendments, as being especially important in an environment where they don't have as many things going for them.

Andy Card

We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election,

Dick Cheney

Tomorrow, I will be traveling to Crawford, Texas, with General Colin Powell and our wives to spend the day with Governor Bush and Laura Bush. This will give us an opportunity for an extended discussion on the transition between General Powell, myself and Governor Bush,

Mary Ruiz

Education had the same issue a while back and Gov. Bush said we are going to pull up our ranking to the middle and we did. I am hoping the same happens for mental health.

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Derek Jeter

I thought he battled. He lost some control in that one inning but kept us in the game. We had our opportunities to score but we couldn't come up with that big hit.

Michael Chertoff

I think the American public is rightly distressed about a situation in which they feel we do not have proper control over our borders, ... We need to have a comprehensive solution and one that really will work.

Satoru Iwata

I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

Bruce Buck

What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,

Jamie Mahaffey

We've been through a lot of controversy today, a lot of issues, but we pulled through it. O.J. feels very sorry that he's not here, but we can't control that. One of our goals was to win state. ... We've got one to go.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Zig Ziglar

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Vladimir Putin

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy.

Peter Giles

I hung in there longer than I had planned. But it seemed the economy was getting better, and I figured now is the time when I can go on to some other dreams.

Paul Donovan

The U.K economy is in a stronger position than many European economies, and perhaps now is the time to pause for a bit,

Douglas Duncan

The economy is rebalancing. This year, only about 13 percent of job growth has been in housing.

Ethan Harris

The economy is one ugly event away from contraction.

Stuart Hoffman

The economy is off to a strong start in 2006 and has fully rebounded from the fourth-quarter setback.

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.

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,

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Roger Williams

In 13 years, this is the first time the feds have supported TAG funding (through a grant), ... It's always been a huge push from the state. The federal government hasn't always supported this in terms of finances, so it's a nice change.

Michael Lambert

If you don't wait on FEMA, if you don't wait on the federal government, things can get done faster,

Edmund Mierzwinski

Industry hopes to use the furor over breaches as a way to pass a modest federal reform that just happens to also permanently restrict the states from passing virtually any financial privacy or identity theft laws.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

William J. Brennan

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Woodrow Wilson

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

Woodrow Wilson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is its own reward.

William Weld

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Walter Pater

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

Willie Nelson

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

Zedd

There is magic in patience, you know.

Jean Killy

If you take the quality of the sites, the quality of the sports, you couldn't do really any better than that. For the atmosphere, there was magic here and there, but not everywhere.

Richard Doherty

His magic is seeing value where others don't.

Libba Bray

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Jack Molenaar

If you look at spaces per person, there are more spaces per person allotted right now than were allotted in the master plan.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Mike Johnson

They weren't really just surviving. They had mastered this.

Mark Twain

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

Laurell K. Hamilton

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Kevin Kelly

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Liane Moriarty

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Frank Beamer

You think you're part of a special breed. You think that you're his pet Pekinese.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Rick Riordan

Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.

May Sarton

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

Nick Kroll

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

Mignon McLaughlin

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Marjorie Belka

One time I went to pet it, and it nipped at me.