Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wyden

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Faced with the prospects of competing with much-larger vendors, we believe that many will choose acquisition instead of trying to broaden their own capabilities or find deeper pockets. 2006 will bear out to be the year of super-consolidation for the SOA markets.

Barack Obama

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

We're in a bear market. You're going to see these little rallies on short-covering, but there's nothing (else) on the horizon to push us past that right now.

We see this as a serious situation which bears close monitoring. This is a disconcertingly high mortality rate.

David Porter

The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of reductions in phase two of the scheme.

The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well, bringing to bear all of their legal powers, life experiences and shrewdness,

Abbas Kiarostami

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

Ariel Sharon

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

There are seminal points in economies, and they're reached rarely, ... We reached one in the 1990s, and we will not go back to an economy that bears any resemblance to the one before.

There are questions about who will pay for all of this, but our premise has been to get people the help they need first and worry about who will pay for this later, ... In particular, we know the feds will bear much of the brunt.

The question remains whether the price/value relationship is going to bear fruit for Disney.

Ronald Reagan

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Giorgio Agamben

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

George Vecsey

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

Gloria Steinem

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

Claude Monet

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Gretel Ehrlich

People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. The ice is their highway. The ice is also the ecosystem in which marine mammals and terrestrial animals such as polar bears exist.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Hugh Johnson

Tobacco is the best performing industry in every single bear market,

We've just got to get over the hump here. You've got to bear down and not let guys get chances like that. We just can't let guys get those chances. Good teams don't do that, and it's frustrating.

We're not into a critical time yet as far as food sources for bears if we still get some moisture in May.

We think the quarter had more for the bears to grasp onto than the bulls.

We think the days of buy-and-hold are over. It's been an 18-year, uninterrupted secular bull market. And when that ends, you get a secular bear market.

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

Too many journalists have lost their lives just because they were doing their jobs, and unresponsive governments bear responsibility for the toll.

Franco Frattini

This tragedy, once again, bears witness to the urgent need for a genuine and effective management of migration issues.

We've been skiing Bear Trap all week and we should have a strong field again.

We were not ready for this type of physical game. Bear River is a well coached team and they run their misdirection wing-T really well.

Those who sent these two technicians over there and let them work without protection bear a heavy responsibility.

Sathya Baba

Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.