Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Kaptur

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

There are two proposed bills in the works right now. We're hoping that with continued public pressure the legislature will vote to reform the property tax system.

Because we have already locked in prices for two-thirds of our winter supply, we're expecting customers' bills to be about 15 percent higher than they were last winter.

Nora Johnson

More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.

Oscar Wilde

I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.

J. Taylor

I can't get down (emotionally). I still have bills to pay and will try to go with the flow. Hopefully, I have enough talent to get another job around here ... I hope they can privatize Lone Star to keep it open and supply jobs.

Jim Bunning

If they would take seriously the bills before the Congress and negotiate some kind of settlement that is close to the bills in the House and in the Senate, then I think major league sports and their unions could get away without having legislation passed by the Congress, ... I don't see that happening.

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.

I don't know what I am going to do with home heating bills going up.

Jess Walter

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

Jo Bonner

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

I am happy that understanding for the bills is spreading,

My concern is that there is going to be a convergence of immigration-related bills and the result will be complex and confusing and the session could end with the bills stranded in a conference committee.

Jim Cooper

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

The problem is that they go out and run up their credit card bills again, ... So now they are burdened by a first mortgage, a second mortgage and on top of that more credit card debt.

Bill Engvall

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Horace Walpole

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Kevin Smith

Both the House and Senate pension bills represent the most comprehensive pension reforms in a generation, so a responsible transition period for employers to meet the new, stricter rules is appropriate.

Douglas Adams

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

Adolf Hitler

Please say this gas bill is just an estimate

Aaron Paul

My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronically, which will encourage further consumer adoption.

There are a couple of bills out there that would eliminate horse slaughtering in the United States, which would of course be disastrous for our company,

Bill Johnson

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

Yes, two of our (business development) bills didn't make it ? not part of the (tax cut) compromises between House and Senate leaders.

While we are very proud of the progress made by the Bills organization over the last few seasons, we also recognize the fact that this is a bottom-line business and our record has not been good enough. I take full responsibility for that.

Dixie Carter

We wanted to do another and kept saying we would. But we always had our bills to pay and our many individual commitments.

We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals. But talking to our consumers we have to note that gas prices and heating bills are still at the back of their minds even as they shop.

Sophie Kinsella

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

The recent narrowing in Japan's trade surplus has come as improving domestic demand has pushed up the nation's import bills and thereby offset some of steady export gains.

We have been helped so much by the teachers and staff of the Henryetta schools. They have donated thousands of dollars to help pay Victoria's hospital bills and other expenses. I can't thank them enough for their love and,

When people get married quickly after meeting each other, they get into the real world and start functioning as a married couple. The reality sets in. Bills need to get paid. People have to go back to work. It's not what they bargained for.

Wu Bangguo

We will continue to publicize law drafts to collect suggestions and hold more public hearings on bills which the public care about or dispute about the most.