Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Chiang

The $11.3 billion record tax receipts will narrow the state's budget gap and will help us to get our fiscal house in order.

Joshua Bolten

The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure. We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.

Bill Belichick

That was a great experience for me, working with Joe, ... It was my first real exposure to the 3-4, and the way that Joe played the 3-4 was a lot different than the way we played it in New York (under Bill Parcells) a couple of years later.

We have also explained that the government has submitted the new tax bill and customs and excise draft law to the House of Representatives to support law enforcement,

We will allocate up to half a billion dollars for this purpose next year.

We can't keep up. We're four and a half billion dollars short on the construction side. If that's what you have to trade for five more students, then that's maybe what it takes to trade.

We know that the global problem is probably $600 billion or more in magnitude, of which China represents 60 percent of the global problem. It's being manufactured in China, counterfeiting and piracy. It's being exported around the world and certainly into the U.S. market, so the U.S. companies are very concerned.

We know that the construction sector is dependent on immigrant workers in some cases. These bills would be very important both to employers who want a legal, stable work force and to the immigrants who are working in construction already.

Roger Wicker

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

Melissa McCarthy

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

Morris Dees

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

We have the bill passed but the key thing now is the funding. What we've done now is establish the college. But if we establish it and then don't have the money, there's nowhere to go.

Gary Ackerman

We were sold a bill of goods, and the buck will stop well short of the president's desk,

We were significantly apart. Then I made a proposal and we were very close. Billy declined to make another proposal because he felt Kenny wouldn't be happy.

John Smith

Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.

Marco Rubio

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

Nicholas Negroponte

We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,

We will review the bill and make a determination once it has finished going through the legislative process.

We've made investments since Bruce has been on board, bringing in people like Gary, Bill and George and the productivity is showing itself. We've had a real mix of integrating the new with the old.

Tom Daschle

We have come up with a delicate, but yes, successful compromise. There is no question all 100 of us could go through this bill with a fine-tooth comb and cherry pick and find improvements... we've got a job to do, the clock is ticking and the work needs to get done.

We have better than $8 billion in funds available.

Jim Lee

We're very thankful for the successes we've had. And I'm grateful to have sons who are so competent. Bill is the heart of this company. He borders on genius. He has an instinct for good design. And Tom is a financial wizard.

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

Scott McNealy

We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our R&D investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

Users want quiet and powerful machines. Intel is very focused on designing microprocessors that deliver the maximum performance without generating excessive heat or consuming huge amounts of power. For now, the Intel Core Duo fits that bill perfectly.

Virtual schools are something that this charter school bill has certainly laid the groundwork for. It's something that we're certainly open to in terms of a way to expand choices for students and parents.

Kevin Brady

With the way energy costs are rising, people are a lot more concerned with what their bills are going to look like -- electric and gas.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

Pat Mastelotto

I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.

Mark McKinnon

Debt is a drag, a reality you may experience with every credit-card bill you open. But for a corporation or a government, it can be even more of a drag - on economic growth and job creation.

I worry about those people (Toll) being in charge of $10 billion (combined) company,

Simon Hoggart

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.