Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Fein

The burden of persuasion is on the president to establish the program's legality.

Warren Buffett

The burden of paying Helpers may cause American equity investors, overall, to earn only 80 percent or so of what they would earn if they just sat still and listened to no one.

The burden of higher interest rates will weigh down the housing industry further. This, in turn, should lead to moderated residential construction and home related consumer spending on goods such as furniture, appliances, and home improvement items in coming months.

The burden is on the custodian of the record who makes the record public.

The burden is light on the shoulder of another

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Harry Reid

the burden for securing Iraq continues to fall squarely on U.S. troops.

Derrek Lee

As of right now, I haven't talked about it. If it comes up, yeah, I think it needs to be done before the season. I don't really want that burden of thought. I want to concentrate on the game.

It would just be another burden on businesses.

With gas prices the way they are and with people suddenly being burdened with monthly car payments, they are looking for bargains. People are taking their money from Bloomingdale's to Penney, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS - news ) and Target (NYSE: TGT - news ).

Ella Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

There should be a lower burden on local property taxpayers.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs.

The time is very precious. When they come into first grade or kindergarten for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that is extremely damaging.

Eric Chavez

I started scoreboard-watching three or four weeks ago; that's when you know things are starting to get interesting. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. This is the time of the year when every game counts, every pitch counts. It's an honor to be able to play for something when other teams are making vacation plans.

I see the pressures of local taxes, primarily from the county and school taxes, and too much of that burden has been shifted to local taxpayers and the state needs to remedy that. Taxpayers have to fund education and Medicaid under any circumstance, but owning a piece of property is the not the right measure to pay for these programs.

Dick Cheney

What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,

We will undoubtedly see some of the tax burden shift to residential.

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

The last thing that I want is for Courtenay to be a financial burden on Jonathan or any other family members. We're not eternal, so we need to take care of things while we are here.

Eric Schmidt

Their desire to purchase Chiron should no way put the burden on them to become the next U.S. vaccine supplier.

The federal government's reductions in the personal and corporate tax burden provide a sound foundation for growth and future prosperity. However, to realize our long-term potential, more needs to be done to deliver productivity growth on a sustained basis.

In laymans terms, taxes in Granby will go down this year as the result of true-value and that will shift the burden to the other six municipalities that are in the district,

I know that they are excited about it being open. It just takes a burden off.

Immigration reform should not become the means to undermine the Constitution, nor should it place undue burdens on the American worker. Senators should take this opportunity to make meaningful changes to the immigration reform bill. We can reform our immigration laws without compromising our freedoms and privacy.

Jeff Flake

It's unconscionable to pass this burden on to our kids,

James Johnston

The non-compete clause, depending on how it's worded, could be the most potentially damaging from a practical standpoint. Especially today, when people move from job to job. Try to negotiate so it's taken out or limited so it's not a tremendous burden on you.

Michael Specter

The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes it harder to convince Congress to fund research.

The number one reason people participate in these schemes is greed. They want to shift their tax burden to you and me.

Bill Dana

Studies have shown that regulatory burden and compliance is one of the most significant costs to a small bank, substantially more than anything other than your payroll.

Russ Feingold

still carry the heavy burden of not knowing the whereabouts of loved ones, especially loved ones.

Azmi Bishara

The best-case scenario is that they are a demographic burden or tolerated guests, and at worst a fifth column.