Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are very glad the bill was paid. The whole issue's been financial all along. To get the bill current and a deposit for some future payments is reassuring to the city from a financial standpoint.

Edward Kennedy

This new finding means an extra $49 billion in profits for drug companies, but the legislation still does nothing to reduce the exorbitant prices that drug companies charge.

Jeff Sessions

We should do a good enforcement bill and leave the administration to execute it, then in the meantime, talk seriously about what we want to do about the future.

We think that the eventual savings from the deal will only be in the $7 billion pretax range, compared with GM's estimate of $12 billion.

There have been one or two of these storms a century. If we were to get another one there could be $100 billion of damage, the same level as Katrina.

David Rosenberg

Washington pundits expect such a bill to include the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, which could lead to a wave of mergers in the utility sector.

We are waiting for project clearance for 100 billion rupees for an integrated township near Delhi. It is from a state government.

We are vulnerable for two reasons, the world has gotten smaller--more travel, we're more open and as business expands, we are more vulnerable. We are the most free nation in the world--a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. If we wanted to secure our borders or be a police state, we could, but we won't, because we are a free nation.

We are vulnerable for two reasons, the world has gotten smaller -- more travel, we're more open and as business expands, we are more vulnerable. We are the most free nation in the world -- a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. If we wanted to secure our borders or be a police state, we could, but we won't, because we are a free nation.

Ed Byrne

We are very much committed to Bill 27,

We are very happy with the versions of the bill that has been submitted in both the House and the Senate.

We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time.

We did appoint a commission and made appointments to it, and (Commissioner) Billy Morgan was made chair, but as time passed, the enthusiasm for the effort just seemed to wane, so it never really got off the ground. I guess the commissioners thought that perhaps there wasn't a strong interest in pursuing it any longer.

We are going to continue to support (Sullivan) to get his bill on the floor of the House. (Sullivan) has to work in the House to make it happen. We will help him as much as we can to enhance his efforts, but we are (also) going to take some other avenues.

John Fowler

We are going to bill them as the fastest, most energy-efficient and reliable x86 servers in the industry. We have aimed these three servers at the bull's eye in the industry-standard market.

Ray Brown

We had several football players on that team. Eagle Day, Billy Kinard, Eddie Crawford. Back in that time, the various coaches did not demand 100 percent of your time to a specific sport.

I started raking it our and then stacks and stacks of hundred dollar bills starting coming out with it.

James Rosenquist

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

is kind of (the oil companies') good luck. They didn't do anything to earn it. And we're sitting here with a $150 billion bill from Katrina.

Robert Scoble

I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.

Is it $15 billion because of the collapse of the business-to-consumer market or it is $15 billion because sales growth slowed down by 50 percent in the last two quarters? Probably, it's a little bit of both, but I think it's more of the latter.

I've called five times myself and I just get customer service. They say they've got an open bill on it and they are going to work on it. They don't know when they'll come out and do it.

It would be incredibly naive to say that it was Bill Clinton who brought partisanship to Washington.

It would be highly unusual and a direct insult to the proponents of this bill and the many millions of Californian families who want him to sign it.

It would have a multi-billion dollar impact. $10 billion is not an unreasonable number.

I understand that laws like this are necessarily broad to prevent future loopholes, but this bill would seem to cover things as innocent as the Linux operating system and many legitimate security diagnostic tools, which in the wrong hands could be used for criminal purposes.

Jeb Bush

I urge the United States Congress to stop talking and get an economic security bill to my desk,

Giuliana Rancic

I used to watch 'The Apprentice' all the time and I thought Bill was a fox. That was that, we didn't see each other for years, and then we saw each other and 45 minutes after the cameras stopped rolling, we were still talking.

Shinzo Abe

Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

The whole point of this bill was to create incentives for a technology that is currently too expensive so that over time it will become cost- competitive, ... Now, the unions will be artificially increasing the cost of the already too expensive technology in order to line their own pockets.

Eugene Kennedy

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.