Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a way for workers to form unions, and if this bill were passed, it would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for workers to form unions.

Parris Glendening

This is a significant problem that is endangering Americans and costing us billions and billions of dollars.

Harry Reid

This is a scandal, ... This is only the tip of the iceberg. ... We're talking about billions of dollars.

This is going to be a grind. I think (coach-manager Bill Horne) has done a great job of putting together a bunch of guys who can play one or two positions.

This is another simple bill to set a clear state standard to be sure state-owned or leased computers are not used to view or distribute obscene material or sexually explicit material.

This is another example of Democrats playing politics with numbers. From our perspective, user fees are more appropriate than the $1.4 billion tax increase that the Democrats proposed." ()

David Willetts

This is a timid step in the right direction. This bill would have been better if it had been bolder.

Dolores Huerta

This is a terrific opportunity for young people to learn what the democratic process is about, the way that bills are passed. I explained this whole procedure to the students.

This is the first thing that you're contemplating putting into your Bill of Rights that restricts rather than protects or expands rights.

Larry Wachtel

This is the first day of the month, you may have seen some end-of-the-month portfolio selling dissipating, ... And this is the day that Microsoft is distributing $33 billion in cash, so there is some anticipation of that finding its way back to the market.

This is not a union or non-union issue. This is a West Virginia bill for West Virginians.

This is not a two-thirds cut. We had to restructure the entire system because of the magnitude of the project. This is a $2.2 billion facility. The Navajo Nation never contemplated a project this size.

Michael Beschloss

This is not as clear as saying, 'We are going to turn back the invasion of Kuwait.' The objectives here are a little bit more complex, a little bit more difficult for a president to explain, especially in the middle of a campaign. Bill Clinton really has his job cut out for him.

This is not the easiest bill to deal with and get votes for,

This is significant because these people that invested $100 million are now being faced with bills by Legislature that say these machines are to go away.

Larry Graham

This is probably the first true bill customers have seen. Until they see it, it doesn't hit them.

This is one of the last places where you can drop a $20 bill on the ground and someone will pick it up and give it back to you.

This is one of a number of bills we get up here every year that implies we all are crooks.

This isn't Bill Clinton territory anymore. The issues have changed since 9/11, and they are no longer domestic ones - the issues that governors have been so good at dealing with, the ones that enabled a guy like Bill Clinton to win.

The weakening labor market, the continuing high level of house prices in relation to earnings and pressure on householders' finances from the recent hikes in utility and council tax bills are expected to curb demand in the coming months, therefore preventing a sustained acceleration in house price inflation.

Annalee Newitz

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

Richard Gephardt

This could have been a bipartisan bill, but the White House squandered that opportunity, ... Instead, what we have is a Republican bill, a bill that will now go into an endless conference committee. This is exactly what the HMOs want.

Howard Dean

That's what they said about Bill Clinton, ... That's what they said about Jimmy Carter. That's what they said about George Bush. Now, George Bush, maybe it was true.

Ned Yost

That's going to be the hardest thing I'm going to have to do this season is finding Billy Hall playing time.

Jason Giambi

A little surprised, yeah, ... but I've been around Billy Beane a long time. I know at the beginning, he made some moves that weren't very popular, but I understood where he was going. (Tim) Hudson's and (Mark) Mulder's contracts were coming up. The team, the manager, the players have done an unbelievable job.

You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?

You see the guy out on the street selling coffee, donuts, fruit - his business is destroyed. There are a lot of small businesses that will close or that won't be able to pay their bills next year because of the strike.

Dick Armey

You sit down as you're moving the bill through the process and you review the situation in light of the new numbers, ... And it would be our job to persuade the president.

You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in.

Your bill lacks any hard standards, ... That concerns me.

Elizabeth Warren

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.

Louie Schwartzberg

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

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.