Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Bob Woodruff

We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.

Alan Thompson

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.

Eric Hyman

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

William Kovacic

We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.

Robert Morgan

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now.

Chris Christie

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Chris Christie

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

Chris Christie

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those types of names [bigot].

Chris Christie

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

David Brooks

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

David Brenner

We have no doubt that Hillary Clinton will raise $50 million-plus, if she hasn't already,

Charles Evers

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Steve Woll

We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.

Edwin Louis Cole

Truth cannot be defeated.

Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

Thelma Drake

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

George William Russell

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

Chuck Tepper

We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Carl Schmid

We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Kevin McCloud

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Robert Reich

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Lee Miringoff

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Lynn Swann

Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Michael Huyghue

We're looking at our options for putting an expansion team in St. Louis. We've met with Major League Soccer, had a feasibility study and made other inroads. At this point, we're very serious about it, but it's still in the planning stage and we're not ready to make an official announcement.

Carol Hively

Maine is one of the few states where we don't have a presence. Opening stores in Maine is part of our overall expansion plan. We are focused on growing in the U.S.

Brian Schmidt

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Iris Chang

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

Richard Davis

We're long on talent and short on experience, as many expansion teams are. We're gonna play hard and these guys play to my style because they're tough. They're gonna hit you in the mouth.

Nancy Pelosi

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Lawrence Summers

We are mindful that we must not take our expansion for granted.

Mo Ibrahim

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Yasser Arafat

No one single house to be added. Not any expansion to any settlement,

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Beeban Kidron

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

Nikki Sixx

I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'

Lia Ices

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

Rich McKay

Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life,

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Allyn Rachel

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

Damon Albarn

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Gayle Davis

(Wednesday) night, our longest stop was about 20 minutes, ... Then we were able to open one lane.

Sharon Taylor

Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Christine Benz

He has one of the longest records, he's more a pure quant investor, ... He's got a phenomenal record.

Pete Vasil

If someone told me they'd have 27 (by halftime), we'd take it. But we were stuck at 11 for the longest time.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

George Pataki

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

T.I.

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

Keith Coogan

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Edward Gibbon

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Ed Sheeran

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

David R. Brower

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Bob Packwood

I don't trade my vote for money.

Eazy-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

Chetan Bhagat

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Bill Maher

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

Bill Maher

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.