Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't know how the mayor can send bills to Lakeview and expect them to get paid,

I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

He's taken a windy day and turned it into a hurricane. Labor is influential in Sacramento. On certain bills and issues, they are very influential. But they are one of many groups that can dominate.

Joseph Muscat

If I were Prime Minister instead of Gonzi, I would not have introduced the crazy utility bills

I had a person that worked as a mechanic here and quit his job today because his gas bills were running 120 dollars a week. It hurts me like it hurts everyone else.

In the hustle and bustle of trying to get the bills out on the last day of the session, part of it was an oversight.

His complaint is not the volume of bills (legislators) focus on, but sometimes they don't focus on the most important ones.

Calling for lower heating bills as we stood there shivering was an effective comment.

By the time I get done paying all my bills at the end of the month, I'm lucky if I have $10 left. If it wasn't for St. Vincent's, I don't know what we'd do.

This is a dangerous position to be in. A court would look at your involvement in the property ... whether you have paid bills or contributed to the mortgage. It then looks at what percentage you should get.

Energy bills are going up, people are worried about their pensions and the labor market is loosening. All of those are reasons why the consumer may not be as strong going forward.

Energy adjustments are not a new thing. It's been on bills for years.

Enactment of postal privatization bills is the top item on the agenda.

Enactment of postal privatisation bills is the top item on the agenda.

Earmarks usually are slipped into appropriation bills without a vote, without debate and without notice. That's why a seat on the Appropriations Committee is so coveted.

Tim Russert

The response to the Bills in Western New York has been extraordinary. It is a team that sells out. It's a team that is responsive to its fan base. It's a team that has been performing better and better on the field.

As they make purchases and pay bills throughout the month from the checking account, they know they've blown the budget if they run out of money too fast,

At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presented and paid electronically by 2005.

At this point, she hasn't been found guilty of anything. My instinct on this is that it's premature for me to make a decision or get too involved in this. I think it's probably not a terribly difficult thing to understand how someone who has been out for months and has large medical bills may have this happen with a small check.

At the moment, we're giving out a lot of assistance, but it's emergency assistance, like paying bills at hospitals, first aid, and blankets. It has to be organized so we can do it in a structured way.

Council tax bills are growing significantly faster than inflation.

Customers should really heed the warning that we're not out of the woods yet. We could still have a cold February and that could certainly make the market volatile again, so customers should not get complacent. The more customers continue to reduce usage, the more they'll see lower bills and also help the situation.

If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done.

Both governors and every commissioner are responsible. This is not necessarily a money emergency because people are crossing the bridges, paying their tolls and the bills are being paid. But bond markets do not look favorably on unpredictable, unreliable, politically driven decisions. Government organizations are created to pass budgets and meet bond covenants. To do otherwise is irresponsible.

Joe Camp

Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any of the repair bills from the plow trucks.

Paddy Considine

I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

Patty Murray

I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

Sinbad

I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,' but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, 'Man, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to pay these bills.' So you owe a million dollars. 'I can pay that.' OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. 'But I didn't do nothin'!'

We focused on the House of Representatives because they're the chamber that's driving the two bills we're focusing on.

We cannot let go now. These bills are going before the money committees now. We can lose it all if we're not there to the very end.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

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.