Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Smith

Some lobbyists might consider this a lobbying opportunity. But we see it as a very worthy charitable event.

Chuck Grassley

our goal is to encourage charitable giving outside of Katrina relief, to prevent the rest of the nation's charities from seeing a downturn in giving as they did after Sept. 11.

Michael Granof

I sure don't want to take money away from the University of Texas; any subsidy for a university is good. But from an equity standpoint, it isn't fair that wealthy people can treat their personal entertainment expenses as a charitable donation.

George Gross

He was a very charitable man. There wasn't a charity he didn't help out.

Steve Peterson

We try to encourage them to go to a vocational school or take a college course or they can elect to do charitable work and be involved in a service organization.

Michael Ramsey

We're proud of him. He's got a long record of civic responsibility and charitable work.

Nigel Wright

She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.

Melissa Bean

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.

Charles B. Rangel

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

Bill Warren

Law enforcement is in total control of the situation. It is a hostage situation. It's contained to one room of the hotel. Our guests and employees have been evacuated from the immediate area.

Peter Davis

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

Grant Heslov

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Anthony Crescenzi

It contained a lot of generalized ideas, but it seems like just his thoughts about what the G-7 should discuss.

Abdullah Fahim

It is a good sign that the virus is contained to these two provinces.

Kate Christensen

Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Bill Stewart

We won't be able to have this fire contained until we can plow a line around it. We've got all kinds of problems with the blow-down from Ivan. It's slowing us down.

Sergey Lavrov

On a number of occasions, the documents shown to us were forged, in particular, they contained fake signatures of Russian officials,

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Elizabeth Leonard

Some of the people that are currently getting services might not receive services. Or, it could mean that new programming that would've been more helpful won't be funded.

Mitul Kotecha

Overall, he is opening the door to further rate hikes. It could also suggest that rates could go higher than currently priced in.

F. Schumacher

Renault currently look the strongest team, followed by three teams, Honda, Mercedes and Ferrari.

Marc Benioff

Please note that most - but not all - Siebel employees are currently eligible for hire at salesforce.com today and that the recruiting department will screen for eligibility,

Seth Shostak

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

Scott Thompson

It is an improvement over what we are currently doing.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

Steven Cron

It is because of this outpouring that she felt an obligation to disclose publicly these intensely private matters.

Bill Cowher

There are no prerequisites in this forum. All the votes are tabulated and shredded, and I disclose the results. This is not a democracy.

Ari Fleischer

He had an obligation to disclose it himself, and he should have done so Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Oliver Drewes

Only after that I can disclose any facts and details.

Michael Johnston

Shareholders are pressuring everyone to disclose what they are doing in the environmental arena.

Shivraj Patil

We have lots of information but it is not proper to disclose it yet, ... The investigation is going well.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Bradley A. Smith

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

Rod Proffitt

Parking was a little easier this summer. A lot of our traffic is RVs. When they're not around it's pretty noticeable.

Orrin Hatch

People haven't done things that, perhaps in retrospect, you can say that maybe they should've done, ... Its always easier to criticize.

James Fox

People in groups do things that they wouldn't do on their own. ... and certainly, once the idea is planted, it is easier to perpetuate.

Lori Jones

Some foods are easier to turn to fat than to use as fuel.

Chance Wheeless

Our problem this year is we play down to some teams and up to others. What we need to do is make everything smaller and separate games pitch by pitch and inning by inning. That makes the big picture easier to handle in the long run.

Leigh Ross

Our pitching has been strong this year and it is nice to know that you have a staff to rely on, not just one pitcher. When you have strong pitching and good defense, it is easier to win games. To now have our offense wake up will be very good for us.

John Monks

Our secretary read the story and told us about it. His prison tattoos are actually easier to remove than professional ones.

Melissa Slone

Our role players have really improved. If we can get points from our other three starters, that just makes it easier for Tamara and Megan.

Johnathon Jones

Our big men really stepped up. It makes it easier for the guards.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Mel Netzhammer

People have been so welcoming, including the vice presidents.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Nathan Brown

I think the second offence should be made public for everyone's sake, including the sponsors.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Tim Long

It didn't do any major damage, but it woke up a lot of people in Atlanta, including me.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

David Trimble

Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,

Chris Berman

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

Ron Nichols

We need (the community's help), ... We need all the information we can get.

Taizo Nishimuro

We need more updated information and better disclosure.

Pete Erlenbach

We never provided them with information that said they were being annexed.

Alfred Delucchi

Just for your information, we went through 17 witnesses this week, ... So, it wasn't a total loss.

John Miller

That's the kind of information that has to be passed on to the locality because they have the most important vote in determining what kind of protective measures to take.

Schoolboy Q

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

Emily Johnson

Lately, at least once a week, an organization is contacting me to try to get information about the program and get brochures,

Jeffrey Kelson

Remember, you don't want to have any more correspondence with the IRS than is necessary.

Laurence J. Peter

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Frank Degen

You can be looking at 25 percent of the tax that is owed, plus all the interest. If you don't pay then the IRS can take some pretty Draconian measures.

Dave Barry

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

Dave Barry

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Bob Thaves

When you come into the world you have nothing... when you leave you have nothing... and in between there's the IRS.

Michael Moriarty

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Don Roberts

The IRS could question the issuance of the W-2,

Fred Daily

The IRS suspects there's something wrong, or they wouldn't have picked you to start with. Taxpayers just prolong the process.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Kathleen Ham

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Frank Robinson

That's the rule around here. They've all been told. It's been said more than one time.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Ed Belfour

I thought about it afterwards. It's frustrating. It's a new rule that you have to get used to it.

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Lawrence Dallaglio

I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of a return. It is something that has to be thought about very seriously.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.