Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's interesting that in a nation of 1.2 billion people, we're talking about a labor shortage. It's important to realize that it's a relative situation.

Nancy Pelosi

It was a bill that was anti-family, anti-taxpayer, and anti-American.

Paul Rieckhoff

I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What do you really know about infantry tactics? 'Have you ever had to walk through bodies?

I've got two computers ? one is my Bill Gates computer and one is my non-Bill Gates computer. There are more and more things I can do on the (non-Gates) computer. It places real pricing pressure on the software that you'll pay for.

I've got to pay bills and stuff. I can't do it with gas prices going up so much.

Don Knotts

No, I wasn't payed a whole lot of money for it, but I didn't feel cheated in any way; it was my first top billing in a feature length movie.

No matter who you go with, the services are going to be about the same. It comes down to your calling patterns, what your in-state rates are and the billing increments.

Jim Clark

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

Dennis Hastert

There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.

Michael Leunig

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

This legislation will ensure that Texas is at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, bringing thousands of new jobs and billions of economic investment to our state.

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.

This is the heart of the debate. This is what the patients' bill of rights is all about.

They're doing phenomenally on the bottom line. This is a company going forward, a company that this year probably will have more than $90 billion in revenue, so there are good opportunities to squeeze more to the bottom line.

They're all solid companies. Several have revenues in excess of $1 billion and all are profitable.

John Hostettler

They're not going to have New Orleans pumped-dry until the middle of October? What are we going to spend $52 billion on, between now and October, with a city flooded?

There's a lot of moving to be done after we close down. The lights, grandstands, scoreboard, sound system, fencing and billboards are all coming down and it takes a huge effort to do that. It'll take 10 working days to remove everything and if we have the Sept. 24 show, there would be no opportunity for the stuff to get out of here.

Victoria Jackson

There's a lot of money in Billy Graham's Association and in that Denver, Colorado thing, Focus on the Family. So, why can't we make Christian movies?

Chuck D.

There's billions of dollars on the table in Coyote Valley.

If the universe was finite, and had a size of about 4 billion to 5 billion light-years, then light would be able to wrap around the universe, and with a big enough telescope we could view the Earth just after it solidified and when the first life formed. Unfortunately, our results rule out this tantalizing possibility.

Carlos Slim

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

If you get rid of $800 billion in economic activity, that's a big hit on the U.S. economy.

James Hansen

If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.

If you're having an agriculture event in South Dakota, and the senior senator from South Dakota is a conferee on the farm bill and he's not invited, it might lead one to question whether that was an official policy event.

If you as legacy carrier are losing billions of dollars and your partner is making hundreds of millions of dollars obviously there's a disconnect that needs to be addressed.

If you own property and haven't received a tax bill, please contact our office. By state law, failure to receive a bill doesn't waive penalty and interest.

If you look at it, even with over five years in the Senate to make an impression on Florida voters, Bill Nelson is still struggling to move people in his direction.

Steve Allen

If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black hole engines you could get about a billion miles per gallon of gas. In anyone's book that would be pretty green.

Lance Robertson

If you heat with electricity, this is going to be the highest bill you get this year.

If you try to undertake what is a $5 billion problem here on a month-to-month basis, it's going to take a long, long time at that rate to see significant results. It's important to us to know how much we're getting and for how long.

In the world in which we live today, everybody needs a foundation in math and science. What we're talking about is the success of our next generation. We face the fundamental fact -- we won the Cold War, capitalism prevailed, and we have 3 billion new competitors.

Bill Clinton

In the last energy bill they finally gave a 25 percent tax credit for the purchase of new solar equipment and other clean energy equipment. I tried for three years to pass that as president and could not do so. So I am thrilled that it passed. This will mean that a lot of these products are now far more cost effective and will off a lot sooner than they would before.