Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

Today we filed a lawsuit that seeks to recover from the tobacco companies the billions of dollars that American taxpayers spend each year on smoke related illnesses,

To grow a $32 billion company, first you have to do $32 billion in business.

Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

We are a bit worried that this bill will pre-empt some tough anti-spam laws in states like California, Washington and Virginia.

We are a big business. We have a lot of bills and there are a lot of things that have to be gone through.

We are really hoping this bill gets passed. Letters from students would have an impact on legislature if they were so inclined.

We are pumping out nine billion gallons a day.

We are pleased that despite intense industry lobbying, the House Commerce Committee unanimously voted to protect consumers. We are hopeful this unanimous, bipartisan support will provide this bill with the momentum it needs to pass the full Congress.

Rachel Scott

We are overly dependent on natural gas and of course the costs of natural gas is skyrocketing which impacts customer bills significantly.

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.

Ian Mckellen

Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.

Donald Trump

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Wesley Clark

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Chris Carter

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

We've been working on this for months, but this is the first step for consumers. They are merging into our network and into our rate plans. The next step will be changes in billing and in the name of the company. That won't happen until sometime next year.

We've been working on this bill for so many years, and you were planning to rush it through in one day?

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

We do get a lot of questions ranging from how to price corn to how to price cattle and, quite frankly, about the farm bill as well. And from a marketing standpoint there's no question the farm bill will have an effect on how producers manage in the next five six to seven years.

E. B. White

We do expect to see our electrical bill to increase but at a reasonable rate because of some of the things we have done.

We want to make sure he's not a walking billboard as soon as he gets to the NHL. His priority, and ours, is that he's content, fully energized and has fuel to perform on the ice. He understands it's a business and that it's good for the league and the sport, but at the same time he's human.

Quincy Jones

When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

The defense bill should be about delivering equipment and support to our troops. Instead, it is being used to deliver a multi-billion bonanza to oil companies.

The Democrats have every incentive, knowing there will be rolling blackouts in California this summer, to try to get a bill to put price caps on utilities. It's good politics to blame the energy companies for high prices.

The Democratic legislators are going to have to explain why they took out a competent, Democratic ... director purely because they are focused on getting this driver's license bill for undocumented workers. It's a prime example of Democratic lawmakers playing politics as opposed to focusing on good public policy.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms.

James D. Watson

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

Vano Merabishvili

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

We plan to consistently execute this strategy through 2002 and exit the year as a robust, growing company with more than $1 billion in cash and an intensely satisfied customer base.

We project for all households in the Northeast, oil and heat bills will be 35 percent higher than last year and that for households in the Midwest, gas bills will be 50 percent higher. Low and moderate income households will be clobbered by these oil and gas price hikes.

We probably work off of fear, ... We have bills to pay, and we have to split (profits) four ways.