Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kasich

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.

It's a hard pill to swallow, ... Someone is questioning whether I'm highly qualified when I'm getting a student loan bill for my master's in the mailbox every month.

It's all about the Bush plan today. Any stocks that pay dividends are doing well today, particularly telecoms and utilities. But I hope that this is not a short-term solution. A range of $300 billion to $600 billion is pretty murky. We're going to have to hope that it comes in on the high end or there's going to be disappointment.

Brandon Moore

I t pretty much kills me because I've got bills to pay, too.

Alan Stern

It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.

It's more a matter of people being satisfied with the job that Bill Nelson is doing and they're eager to return him to office. But unfortunately for Katherine Harris, money can't buy credibility.

It strikes me as being unique that a company can see half a billion dollars in income go away and see it as a relatively small impact on earnings per share.

It's not perfect and should be closer to $2 billion, but the five-year program satisfies the federal government, which won't threaten to withhold $1.4 billion of federal transportation funding. Projects held up for years without funding will get done.

It's not particularly substantial. Especially if you look at it from the point of view of the more than 450 billion pounds of government spending every year.

Jacques Diouf

It's normal to do that and it's good to be ready should this happen. But for the time being we have 140 million birds killed or dying or have died because of avian influenza, with $10 billion of costs ... and it is still there (in Asia) that we are having contamination to human beings.

Harvey Smith

For Bill it was always more about character and integrity than wins and losses.

For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.

Foreign investors in China remitted profits worth 250 billion US dollars to respective countries in the 1990-2004 period.

Ike Skelton

For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard.

Ike Skelton

For each 1 percent pay raise, is about $600 million -- so $1 billion just won't cut the mustard.

Bernie Sanders

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

For creditors, bills are just a number, ... It's not going to take them long to forget about the Hurricane Katrina deal.

Bernie Sanders

For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Nancy Gibbs

For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year.

Beatrice Arthur

I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.

I'm encouraging people who wish to participate to write ... Sen. Dan Kelly and Rep. Russ Mobley to show support for either or both of these bills that may be introduced during this legislative session.

I'm disappointed in my Democratic colleagues, ... We know that by starting this tax bill now, by the time it wends its way through the process we will have a budget resolution.

I'm definitely talking to Billy about the circumstance involved. I want to make sure Salim is being treated fairly.

Andy Richter

I kinda feel like I know the funniest people. I guess Bill Murray. It's really, really hard for him to do wrong in my estimate. We just rented The Man Who Knew Too Little, and it's a pretty misguided movie. But there are things that he does that are so funny.

Buzzie Bavasi

I learned that from Mr. Rickey, ... and I hope Billy learned that from me.

Ryan Freel

I learned more in 15 minutes with Billy than I learned in 13 years in pro ball.

Larry Ellison

I hope they can amend the constitution to let Bill Clinton run again... I'm very fond of Bill Clinton personally... the world's going to miss him. He's gifted, bright, charming and charismatic.

I hope the Senate defeats the House bill and substantially alters it.

Jesse Palmer

I hope that you have explained to the citizens of Meridian that nobody is slipping anything on them or hiding anything, because if you read your phone bill it's right there before you. So it's not put in small letters so small you have to use a microscope in order to see it.

Bob Corker

I hope that very soon the Senate and the House will come together for a bill that reflects the values of this country, but if not, that's something I want to work hard on.

I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.

I have senior citizens giving me $20 bills and someone gave me a lottery ticket.

Jim Long

I'm addicted. They should pay the billion dollars and get it over with.