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.

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.

Allen Michel

They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them to a $27 billion deal in a different kind of competitive environment where a lot of things can go wrong, you have no room for error. ... You can't be a gunslinger.

Peter Adams

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Mary MacDonald

Over the last 12 quarters, we've been between $4 billion and $6 billion each quarter and in (the third quarter) we're effectively right in the middle of that band.

Jim Redding

Our country currently uses 150 billion gallons of gasoline per year. By contrast, we consume four billion gallons of ethanol. A huge potential for growth exists within this industry.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

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.

Andy Bryant

We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Roy Blunt

In the case of the Democrats' 2009 budget request, the statement of need could not have been articulated any clearer: We need more spending, historic new tax hikes, and greater control over the way American families live their lives.

Ron Jones

The president's budget numbers for the low income energy and energy efficiency programs are inadequate given the energy costs confronting consumers today.

Anil Biswas

We like the things for West Bengal, but the budget should be seen from a national perspective.

Jodi Whitaker

The governor has made his intentions on right to work and prevailing wage very clear as evidenced by their inclusion of each of those measures in the budget he submitted to the House.

John Berthoud

When budget times are tight, like they were in 2001 after 9/11 and after the economic downturn, states will raise taxes.

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.

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.

James McGovern

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

Clarence Ditlow

There's been a difference in Congress. I expect to see a much more favorable Congress next year, no matter who wins. People are not going to forget Firestone/Explorer quickly.

Abhishek Singhvi

We are not privy to this. The Congress has played no role in this. The law will take its own course and the guilty should be punished.

David Plouffe

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

Dixie Lee Ray

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Richard Gephardt

Yesterday, the president said there would be enough money for people's highest priorities. Despite a number of gimmicks, today's numbers strongly suggest he was wrong.

Tricia Binford

We have some upperclassmen nursing injuries and it was nice to see our freshmen step up and contribute. They're gaining a lot of experience and confidence, despite the adversity.

Guus Hiddink

We played tactically very well in the first half, despite all our problems,

John le Carre

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Julie Cordova

I thought I did okay despite the lack of training, but one of my listeners told me that while I thought I was playing music to take a break, I was actually recording!

Wally Buono

We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.

Jason Tapp

We hoped to have another win or two, but the team played well despite a few untimely penalties. We gave up five goals due to penalties.

Ray Keller

I felt real pleased the way we were playing in the first half. I felt we were winning the hitting war despite it being 0-0. They had a big return then got some mo (momentum), and we had a hard time recovering.

Tim Hibbitts

I don't think voters are terribly confident, despite what the economists may tell them.

Richard Fox

It would be nice if there were a policy response in the form of a tighter fiscal policy.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Nina Easton

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.

George Gaylord Simpson

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

Jim Cox

This would be a nice form of entertaining at home.

Tom Mullen

We could form a citizens' patrol and wear identifying jackets. Just our presence watching what's going on would help.

D. H. Lawrence

We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.

Matthew Bourne

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Patty Loveless

My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away.

David Nichols

We'll play it by ear. He's in good form himself so we'll just have to see on a weekly basis.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Corey Brewer

We know that if you lose, you go home now. It's not lose and go look at it on film. If you lose, the season's over. We feel like we've got to turn it up.

Frank Darabont

You go to see a movie nowadays, and its completely pre-digested for you. You leave it in the theater the moment you walk out the door; you don't take it home with you.

John Cohen

You give up a solo-shot home run, it doesn't hurt. You give up two-, three-run home runs, it's a big deal.

Sandy Anderson

You have to separate. Even when you're working, you have to come home and just be at home.

Phil Jackson

You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.

Bill Cowher

Everything went fine. He's at home resting comfortably.

Heath Bell

Every year, it's a worry. For me, the end of the season is hurricane season. My wife and kids live here. I don't get to go home if there's a hurricane.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Chris Stapleton

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Pat Knight

I know he wants the record for sure, after that I don't know,

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

George Duke

I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.

Mahalia Jackson

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Gustave Flaubert

The future is the worst thing about the present.