Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't see any of those bills moving this year,

Charles Krauthammer

I don't think Bill Bennett's a racist, though.

I am very proud of the legislation we were able to pass this year, ... Many of the bills we worked on were district bills that will have a direct and positive impact on the people who live in the 15th Senate district.

I am very thankful to the France family and as long as Bill France and Jim France and the family will keep me there, I hope to stay there.

Brian McKnight

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

Tom Daschle

I am pleased that Secretary Thompson has acknowledged the growing scandal over the Medicare drug bill and has pledged an independent inquiry into the misconduct,

If commodities prices are at their multi-year highs, then you'll expect that the producers and the manufacturers are going to pass through these costs. You're paying more at gas pumps. My cable bill was just raised, food prices are a little bit high.

G. H. Hardy

I don't want to see the event become a corporate billboard but if that's the only way it can go on and if it's done tastefully ... it would be appreciated if it's necessary.

He's now the rookie. The veterans over there have a tendency to find your room number and send the lunch bills to that room.

I commend the Senate for its work passing an excellent tidelands bill, ... This bill brings a level playing field to all casinos, whether they are over the water or on dry land, and ensures that the tidelands program will continue to improve the quality of life on the Coast.

I continue to like oil service plays and this one fits that bill real good. I think they're in a good spot in which they have relatively high horsepower rigs. With drilling demand currently, those are more likely to be in demand.

I can see the bill raising revenue in the short run, and maybe some revenue from overseas will be brought back. But there's no guarantee, and it's unclear that the money would go for new investment or anything that would stimulate jobs in the short run.

Jon Evans

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

People are going to review this not in terms of whose name is on the bill but whether it works.

People are cutting back. They are getting higher bills and they're cutting back.

Our clients are looking at the gamut of planning issues, engineering issues, surveying, environmental planning and landscape architecture. We bill ourselves as a full-service consulting company.

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.

Our priorities for 2006 will include completing the transition to a fully competitive retail market in Texas, converting to an open model in our wholesale business, improving the commercial capacity factor of our generating plants and managing our collateral exposure to reduce postings by $1 billion by year-end.

Mike Ross

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Martin George

Our fuel bill of around 1.6 billion pounds is now our second largest cost after employee costs.

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.

Our utility bill has gone up by 25 percent this winter.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

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

Tom DeLay

The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

Chuck Schumer

Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate.

Donald Trump

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

Bill Cosby

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Bill Cosby

I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other.

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.

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Grace Slick

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Gore Vidal

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.