Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

I think the economic outlook makes tax reform, tax cuts more important than ever, ... Because it does look like the economy has slowed significantly.

Mark Dayton

There is no fair or justifiable reason to single out dairy farmers for such drastic programmatic cuts and tax increases.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

Michael A. Stackpole

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Tom DeLay

If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

Devin Aromashodu

I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking for. ... I need to get in and out of cuts ASAP. I need to be as good at that as possible.

It was never our intention to make any cuts until the final moment. They had moved the deadline first to 10 p.m. (Thursday), so we were going to work right up to 9:59.

Rob Reiner

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

It's made it more difficult. We have to keep making cuts or finding money from other places,

Jim Taylor

It's likely there will be some major cuts in future rounds. Whether we will be one of them, I don't know.

It just about killed me - the cuts were about a centimeter from my jugular vein.

Karl Malone

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

The longer you wait to decide when to start cutting, the steeper the cuts will be.

The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.

All of those cuts have to be restored before we can talk about staffing.

The massive cuts reflect high inventory levels, falling new vehicle sales and a shift in automaker tactics from price cuts to production cuts,

Hugh Johnson

The markets are getting a little nervous . On balance, investors want to see this president and the tax cuts preserved.

The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think the point is clear: Policy makers are going to do whatever they can to help the Fed. The rate cuts that the Fed is putting through are only hitting the short curve; they're only psychological.

The market is saying what we're not going to get is a surprise in terms of rates -- we're not going to get some cuts because of storm-damage problems.

Grover Norquist

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

A lot of streets are still very dark in town and not set up numerically, ... This cuts down on our response time.

This is a fundamental priority for us, because this cuts to the very heart of our mission, ... to educate and be educated.

Gene Sperling

They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.

Michael Lopez

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

Jared Bernstein

It's one thing to run faster in place when the rest of the economy is stagnating as well. But it cuts a little deeper when policymakers are telling you the economy is fine, and you are falling behind.

They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people.

Klaus Kleinfeld

There will be more cuts in the short term.

Joe Lhota

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

It's a formula to introduce pension cuts through the back- door.

Roy Blunt

They're not used to pushing back when the other side suggests that the savings are deep cuts in social programs.

Bruce Springsteen

There's a lot of music we have that cuts right to the heart of what's going on there.

Patrick Murphy

Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

Norman Foster

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.