Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Ken Mehlman

So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse.

Once you step down, you can do whatever you want, but the premise would be to seek nomination for the party, go back to your riding in a by-election or general election, and seek the mandate of the people. The bill also allows for an individual to sit as an independent.

Mark Wilson

Now it's time to just go kill this bill the way it should have been done today. The NRA in Florida, as far as I know, never lost a bill before. ... We're in uncharted territory. They're unpredictable.

Chuck Grassley

Now it's a shame to put it off to another year because every year we put it off it's going to cost 600 billion dollars more, spread out over 75 years,

Heather Wilson

Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid,

John Jay Hooker

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

Now more than ever, the money is gushing into the pockets of the oil and gas industry, ... The five largest oil companies have recorded profits of over $46 billion during the first six months of this year.

Jeremy Foley

Now all of a sudden, Billy can coach again, huh?

Jonathan Raymond

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

William Vickrey

Ten billion dollars less of deficit means $10 billion less of disposable income ... and a loss of at least 100,000 jobs.

Sometime over the last 10 billion years this square dance happens.

Keyshawn Johnson

said Dallas coach Bill Parcells . ''That's why I don't think he's a selfish player. I never have.

Right now, we have negative real rates of return on Treasury bills and massive deficit spending. Historically, a currency can't be strong with those two factors.

Right now we have $10 billion in cuts on the table for the Medicare program in the U.S. Congress. So we're moving in the wrong direction.

Right now, we bill out twice a year. We consider it past due after 30 days.

Right now, they're the leader of the pack. They're a billion times defending champion in most meets. They're the favorites in every meet, so there's definitely no shame in losing to a team like East St. Louis.

Matt Bennett

President Clinton is enormously popular and obviously we are gratified to have the support of people who were and are close to him. Bill Clinton found a path to the White House and did it starting in New Hampshire, and we'd like to emulate that.

Santorum is one of those guys like Bill Clinton, like Richard Nixon, who will do anything to win.

SCE has borrowed billions of dollars, which threatens the company's solvency, through eight and a half months of inaction and delay by the CPUC, in order to continue to serve its customers, ... There was no reason for the CPUC to take this action, except for reasons of publicity. This decision undermines confidence in the fairness of the decision-making process at the CPUC.

Mike Quigley

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

Louise Slaughter

Proponents of this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they are taking a jackhammer to it.

Proponents of the bill want to make sure there's an opportunity for intelligent design or creationism . . . to have some moment in the classroom. I think (this bill) certainly allows for that. One of the questions is, does it require it.

Quite frankly, but for Bill Owens' efforts in this regard, I'm not sure we'd be sitting here today,

There will be relatively few shares sold, ... And UPS still has $1 billion left over from the IPO to repurchase shares on the open market to support the price if need be.

Byron Dorgan

The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.

O. J. Simpson

I've told Carole, you can hold out for your bill until the cows come home, but it's not going to happen in our lifetime, ... In politics, you learn to take what you can get when you can get it.

I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.

I've requested that Bill Smith oversee the transition and wrap his hands around the program. He's already had several conversations with current players and recruits.

Jody Williams

I've repeatedly said that Bill Clinton is neither a leader nor a statesman and I'll say it again, ... I hope this prize will help change his mind.

It would be a mandate on many drivers that don't need it. There has been no decision as to whether he would veto it or not, but it is really a bill he has a number of reservations about.

It would be disrespectful to the millions of Californians who support this bill not to hear the arguments of its supporters, ... This is not just another bill.

Gene Sperling

It would be better to do nothing and pay down $100 billion of our national debt than to sign a large and irresponsible tax cut that would signal to the world that the era of fiscal discipline in the United States is over, ... Meet The Press.