Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Murray

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

Michio Kaku

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

We had reached the end of the road, ... Our feelings for one another were unchanged but they had incurred for us a burden so great that we decided, together, to lay it down.

We want Congress to either put a stop to these unreasonable burdens on the tribes or settle the litigation.

We want as much federal funding as possible in order to lessen the burden on the state.

With gas prices the way they are and with people suddenly being burdened with monthly car payments, they are looking for bargains. People are taking their money from Bloomingdale's to Penney, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS - news ) and Target (NYSE: TGT - news ).

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

Users do not want be burdened with having to remember to carry a device like a smart card.

FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,

There's only one way -- through good science. We know the burden is upon us to do this right.

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

There should be a lower burden on local property taxpayers.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs.

The time is very precious. When they come into first grade or kindergarten for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that is extremely damaging.

Eric Chavez

I started scoreboard-watching three or four weeks ago; that's when you know things are starting to get interesting. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. This is the time of the year when every game counts, every pitch counts. It's an honor to be able to play for something when other teams are making vacation plans.

Ella Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Dick Cheney

What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,

We will undoubtedly see some of the tax burden shift to residential.

Eric Ripert

What I never want to do is lose my focus on Le Bernardin. That's why I did not want to be burdened with managing the place. I'm not going to be there every day.

What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

Clay Shirky

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Alice Hoffman

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Victor Ponta

If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

Gary Matthews

We know smokers cost more as far as health care goes. We are putting the burden on them to take responsibility for their own health.

Ben Bernanke

Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news is that at least so far the U.S. economy has not been slowed by the high energy prices.

Thomas de Quincey

The burden of the incommunicable.

Robert Higgs

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

Tony Abbott

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

Tim LaHaye

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

Steve Toltz

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

Mitch Albom

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

Ted Nugent

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.