Famous Quotes & Sayings

What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as a middle man to go after your federal tax dollars.

We got a lot of earnings and so far so good. The trend is going to be up, frankly, because the economy is chugging along, even with $74 dollar oil, amazingly.

Twenty million dollars is a lot of money. It goes very, very quickly when there's a lot of hands out there.

Twenty-four million dollars is less than one week of the energy proposals in the six-way talks.

You have to look at the payment for your life's work as being more than just dollars if you're going to be a farmer. Your quality of life is part of your payment. It's a lot more than a job. It's a way of life.

Two and a half million dollars is a lot of money if you're running in any Congressional district, to have on hand, to spend.

The scope of this project is going to rival an industrial-type development as far as tax dollars are concerned.

It was very dollar positive, as it gets factored into the GDP (gross domestic product) numbers. GDP growth may be revised up a bit.

The sector is planning to increase export volumes to 10,000 tons worth over 50 million dollars in two years.

The state is leveraging its marketing dollars by partnering with Ski NH to promote New Hampshire's official sport and all of the wonderful amenities that our state has to offer.

John Ross

I see what's going on around me. I feel like I could look out the window and see millions of dollars floating around, and none of it's mine.

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

These are the same dollars used for health care, public safety and education. We would need to know where the funding would come from.

The risks for the dollar are skewed to the upside.

The risks for the dollar are probably pretty even going into this Fed meeting.

There won't be payment of any supply dollars until we start receiving water.

Byron Dorgan

We simply must ensure accountability for these massive expenditures -- so that these dollars don't just wind up lining the pockets of unscrupulous contractors, as we've seen all too often in Iraq,

We expect the Fed to raise rates to 4.75 percent in March. The market isn't fully pricing this in, so it suggests a risk the dollar will receive support in the short-term.

We expect the dollar to remain strong in early 2006. (But) once the U.S. Federal Reserve finishes tightening, the risk is that external imbalances play a greater role in steering currencies, and in that latter backdrop, sentiment toward the dollar may deteriorate.

Paul Richards

The story in 2005 was the flow of institutional dollars from the United States into Europe.

The Taiwan dollar is extremely undervalued. Once short-term political distractions have dissipated, people will refocus on what is a pretty positive story.

The theme in the market remains interest rate differentials, it's not surprising to see the dollar come under some pressure.

The thing to watch now, once the 15 minutes' 'noise' after the number is out of the way, is whether there will be a resumption of the weak dollar trend.

Brian Rose

The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest rate hikes, seem to be nearing their end.

I've lost several thousand dollars on single trades because of a server being down.

Joe Horn

I'm going to try to help, donate money and try to feed the families who have been in the Superdome, do whatever it takes. If I have to spend a million dollars to get food, I'll do that.

We will be putting a quarter of a million dollars into this site.

Tim Finchem

We will be investing a number of millions of dollars to give the players a five-star experience, as well as improve the quality for the fans.

Jesse Brown

There was a plan to make all of this stuff happen going back over 40 years. But the missing ingredient has been the dollars to fund it.

Ten dollars is about the price of parking for the Mavericks, so we have a lot we can offer to a family of four and that's probably our target market for single ticket sales, the family of four.

Michael Gregory

The big news will be the G-7. If the markets get a sense that there's somebody out there who will do something to prevent the dollar from falling further, I think people will be relieved.

The big impact is this is really the only hybrid system that makes sense economically. We can make a hybrid system that is more effective than electric hybrids for a few hundred dollars versus several thousand dollars.

Taxpayers who can itemize and fail to do so are literally leaving millions of dollars of overpaid taxes with the government.