Famous Quotes & Sayings

Within weeks of signing federal legislation that siphons off more than $39 billion from essential health and human service programs including Medicaid, Child Support and Child Welfare services, the President released a budget that assures, yet again, that Pennsylvania's vulnerable citizens as well as state and local governments will be asked to shoulder an undue and growing fiscal burden.

When the government was asked to justify their demand they conceded that they needed much less.

Oliver Sacks

When the documentary of 'Awakenings' was made in '73, the first thing the film director asked was, 'Could we meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here,'

Tom Wilson

When we play at home or whenever our bench is on the right, I put all the right side of my equipment on first. The other night I played at Florida for the first time and I asked somebody which side our bench was on.

We called timeout and asked the kids to try not to foul. But (the Blazers) are very quick and continued to attack the rim and we continued to foul. Tonight someone was looking over us in the sense that they didn't make their free throws.

We called it the 'prouds' and 'sorrys'. The meetings were held to get the public's thoughts about township development. We asked them what they thought about the present development and what they would want in future development.

We only asked the jury for $339,000 in our closing argument; they gave us three times more.

We officially terminated this person because we asked him to come in last week and talk about it and he wouldn't. He wouldn't tell his side of the story. He wouldn't defend himself.

We offered him everything he asked for. He gave us nothing. Zero, zip, zilch.

When Justin died and we got the call offering the carriage, I immediately asked for Mike.

Jill Sobule

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.

We were not asked to close, and we won't close until we are.

We waited until we had something in writing from the EPA before we did anything. Right now, we're just trying to clean it up like Bill asked us to. We're going to stop doing it for right now until we get some more clarification from the EPA.

We've worked hard all these years. We did everything we were asked to do. But the one thing we don't have control over is the sale of the product.

We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one.

Shinzo Abe

We asked whether the public thinks Koizumi's structural reforms symbolized by privatization of the three postal services should be pushed forward or stopped,

We asked to see a copy of the release. We want to know more about it.

We asked to live separately because the pair skaters will finish their competition on Monday and it will be very noisy because they'll celebrate. In Salt Lake City we stayed with them and it was very distracting.

We asked to continue interviews outside of prisons. We are not talking about criminals. We haven't been told how much more time we will be given.

Saeb Erekat

We asked the US administration to continue with its support and not to enforce collective punishment, which will have disastrous consequences.

Michael Scheuer

We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture.

We asked them two things. One of which was: Would you be prepared to lend your personal name and your company's name in visible support -- stand up and be counted? And two, would you give us $10,000 to help fund the development material?

We asked them to re-evaluate the choice to let her come based on her comments and writings.

We asked them to make big plays. They did most of what we asked them to do.

Barry Alvarez

We asked them to jump up in there and play press man and I thought they did a pretty good job. I think it will help them. Every week they should get a little better.

We asked them to either take it out or change the N-word to 'Negro' and they told us no. Because white parents were upset about the word 'God' being in the script, they took it out. It was removed.

We asked them to do a tremendous amount.

We asked them to disavow any relationship with the American Family Association. As a group, we were pretty united in our extreme disappointment at Ford's willingness to even take a meeting with this right-wing extremist group.

We asked them to bring in the car so that we can search it for evidence, and they never contacted us.

Ronald Williams

We asked them not to look at the competition, but believe that 'you are bringing the competition'. They ran like they were used to being in a big meet.

We asked them (Monday) to take our final offer to their members for a vote. They told us they would let us know.

We asked them if these could be moved ... they laughed at that one.