Bills Quotes - Page 17

• The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

  John Smith

  Men, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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• The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Rights, Ideas, Belief

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• There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Being Thankful, Pay, Creditors

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• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

  Anita Dunn

  Leader, Consistency, President

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• The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.

  Stephen Moyer

  Integrity, Water, Goal

  "Bill aims to shore up Clean Water Act", www.cnn.com. April 12, 2000.

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• Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

  Robert Torricelli

  Believe, Years, Reform

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

  Harry Reid

  Believe, Attention, Flaws

  "Asbestos Bill Moves Forward After Reid Lifts Objection". www.foxnews.com. February 07, 2006.

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• The volatile natural gas market has affected us all, and we are giving our customers an option to lock in their electricity price for the entire year. This will allow them to anticipate their electricity bills and budget accordingly throughout 2006.

  Jim Burke

  Years, Giving, Locks

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?

  David Letterman

  Country, Giving, Guy

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• The entire island of Martha's Vineyard has gone Obama crazy. There's even a cocktail that they've named after Barack Obama. It's called the Obamarita. Not to be confused with a cocktail inspired by John McCain, the Cosmopoligrip. And then there was one a couple of years ago inspired by George W. Bush, the Mojidiot. Of course, there was the Bill Clinton Screwdriver.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Confused, Crazy

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• Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

  Will Rogers

  Home, People, Majority

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• If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?
  I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Kings, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Letter To The King

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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• 5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!
  1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Citizens, Care

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• Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Eye, Years

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Relief, Congress

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• Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Political, Relief

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

  Buffalo Bill

  Done, Killing, Courses

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.133, U of Nebraska Press

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• And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

  Steve Jobs

  Happiness, Years, Two

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• I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Goal, Guy

  "TRANSCRIPT–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5". Interview With Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2007.

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• We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.

  Will Rogers

  Law, Financial, Finance

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• History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Liberty, Records

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• You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

  Will Rogers

  America, House, Body

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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