Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Connolly

I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.

Max Baucus

It is important for House conferees to realize that it is going to be difficult for the conference to come up with a bill that does not represent the bipartisan provisions of the Senate bill,

Harry Reid

It is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

It is necessary that the Silverstein organization be granted the $3.5 billion in Liberty Bond financing requested so that these efforts may continue without delay.

Pat Roberts

It is my opinion that the administration is also awaiting the report of the independent WMD commission, part of whose job or task is to take a look at the intelligence reform bill and make some recommendations,

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

I wish you'd come up with Social Security before you come up with the tax bill, because I think the tax bill is going to jeopardize Social Security,

I wish pro-animal bills could progress that fast.

I think personally the bill was misguided from the start.

Alan Greenspan

I think people are going to be quite surprised at their heating bills this winter,

I think checks have declined because of electronic payment alternatives, primarily online bill pay.

I think (Mugabe) is likely to sign the bill into law in the fastest possible time ? even within four days or so, ... He wants to have elections for the Senate by October.

It doesn't have to be some sort of brand new, $1 billion stadium like what was planned for New York.

It does seem a shame that those corrections were not done at the time it passed, even though everyone went and touted it as such great legislation. I'm not happy about having to do this now when we had the bill in front of us.

I tell my parents, 'The university just raised a billion dollars,' and their jaws just drop. It's validation of what we already are and an investment in what we are going to become.

Dick Costolo

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

Jason Chaffetz

I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for internal reform that is how we bring bills up, getting back to regular order, how we offer amendments or don't offer amendments.

It all depends on what you want to do. Some people want to pay their bills online. Others feel they lose control when that happens.

It did not explain the bill at all other than that it was a redistricting bill, ... It could make a difference on how we do our building project.

It depends on how you count. If you have 80 billion of what we call primaries, and you have 25 percent in multiple stars, then about 20 billion red dwarfs are in these binary systems, but another 60 billion are single. It's not often appreciated how numerous they are, but they are the most numerous of all stars.

I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much.

Richard Gephardt

I think it will be hard to get a stimulus bill, but I think we really need to do it, ... I don't think a stimulus bill will solve all of our economic problems, but I think not doing one would be a negative.

Erik Estrada

I think me and Bill Shatner are neck-and-neck. I had fun with all that stuff. It's not real; it's not the cure for cancer -- it's camp.

It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pristine state 4.5 billion years ago.

Just ? I hate to say it ? but just the prestige of having the corporate headquarters of a $2 billion company in Springfield, that's nothing to sneeze at.

It is critical for Wal-Mart to start doing a billion dollars a day in sales starting on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which is the big 30-day push for Christmas and year-end sales.

It is disingenuous to oppose Internet gambling and then write a bill that makes select forms of online gambling legal.

Carol Bellamy

It is estimated there are more than 3 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day. Half of these are children and half of those are living on less than $1 a day.

I think this is a decent bill and gives the opportunity for a youngster to progress a little bit faster and not be burdened down.

I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.

I'm shocked that we're still seeing $5 billion of VC go into software.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I'm sure Bill said, 'If we stop the run, we have a great chance to win the game because they don't have their All-Pro tight end,'

E. O. Wilson

I did say that if the Bills were not in a position to compete financially, a move might have to be considered.