Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

John Boehner

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Al Gore

Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the children and the families of America,

Mike Easley

More North Carolina students are taking the SAT and they are improving their scores every single year.

Annette Craig

Obviously we are going to every recruitment fair in the state of South Carolina that we can get to. We're trying to get out there and recruit just as hard as we can.

Porter Bankhead

When I come back and see what's happened, I'm very distraught to see how South Carolina State hasn't advanced.

Tom Sponseller

If other states pass the right form of the bill, it's pushing people to us. It would subject South Carolina restaurants to something nobody else has to do.

Lovie Smith

Give Carolina credit. They wanted it more than we did. We tried to keep Steve Smith contained. We were unable to do that. He made a couple of big plays.

Dick Baddour

I would have pursued Roy Williams all out because he's a great coach. But knowing his love for Kansas, I think the only way we had a shot is because he was a North Carolina grad.

Landon Williams

I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I think I'll move on to North Carolina and do some work over there. I can't take it here any more ? not after this.

Tommy Amaker

I have a lot of respect for what Coach Odom has done with that South Carolina program.

Jerry Richardson

Since his retirement, no other Carolina Panther has ever worn No. 51. We are proud to say as of tonight no Panther player will ever wear this number again.

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Jodie Bernstein

Miracle cures, once thought to be laughed out of existence, have found a new medium. Consumers now spend millions on unproven, deceptively marketed products on the Web.

Steve Schneider

Moving to a file-and-use system of rate regulation puts South Dakota in the mainstream of states and consumers will continue to enjoy the same strong protections they did before.

Anita Elberse

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

Bill Evans

Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable.

Robin Ryan

Make sure you are getting credit for what you do.

Ben Braun

Leon deserves a lot of the credit for the impact he's made. He makes a lot of things easier for a lot of guys. He's also been a really good defender for us this year. he's really improved his understanding of the game.

Ken Rosen

Low interest rates and easy credit standards are just about over.

Judy Gresser

Low-income families who file at the VITA site may qualify for a substantial Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Hud Venerable

Let's give some credit to Mattoon. They played very well.

Frank Ferraro

Let's give credit to him. He's an outstanding player.

Gregg Klein

Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this credit at current levels.

Mario Monti

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Bob Law

Mayors took credit for it. But it was the Million Man March.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Larry Ceisler

Look, when your opponent is cutting their own throat, you don't get in the way.

John Challenger

Several telecom deals have yet to be finalized, but once they are we can expect to see more fallout, especially since many of these deals were made with the sole purpose of cutting costs,

Beth Jones

Several departments have increased demand for services, and how do you meet those demands if you're cutting staff?

John Challenger

October and November were the second- and third-heaviest months of the year for layoffs, ... We returned to the levels of job cutting we saw in 2001, which was the heaviest year we've ever tracked.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Êyears, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20 years, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Tom Golisano

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Robert Pozen

We need to treat lower income workers a little better in Social Security.

Ludwig von Mises

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

Thom McDaniels

We had three different protection schemes because they give you three different fronts,

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Jay Wright

He?s going to be a factor. He sits back there and protects the basket.

Tony Bui

He so much protects the vision of the director, ... He always said, 'I'm making your film Tony. I'm not making my film or the studio's film. This is your film and that's what I want to be here for and that's what I want to protect.'

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.

Alicia Keys

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Amanda Schull

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.