Bills Quotes - Page 21

• The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

  L. Neil Smith

  Rights, Lists, Bill Of Rights

  "To Hell With Public Schools". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. May 13, 2012.

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• We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

  Nelson Shanks

  Presidential, Age, Portraits

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• His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesn’t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.

  Bruce Morton

  Cutting, Debt, Als

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• The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

  Jonathan Alter

  Ideas, House, Done

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

  Ilana Mercer

  Sex, Thieves, Disease

  "One Man's Malady, Another Man's Fetish". www.wnd.com. August 04, 2006.

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• It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

  David Maraniss

  Reading, Lines, Classic

  1995 On President Clinton's letter as a graduate student, 3 Dec 1969, to arrange RO TC enlistment to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, a position that was to haunt his future campaigning. First in His Class.

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• The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

  Harold Innis

  Impact, Rights, Printed Word

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press

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• I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Mother, Impact, Practice

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 6, (pp. 120-121), 1969.

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• Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

  Robert Hormats

  Jobs, Names, Innovation

  "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

  Tina Brown

  Mother, Country, Responsibility

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• I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "Penn, O'Reilly Trade Barbs". abcnews.go.com. January 3.

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• Hey, Warren, the Raiders signed you to a seven-year deal. I guess Bill Callahan was right - they are the dumbest team in America.

  Tom Arnold

  Football, Team, Years

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• Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Mind Your Own Business, Energy

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

  Ayn Rand

  Time, Money, Sorry

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.45, Penguin

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• Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

  Simon Blackburn

  Able, Window, Multiple

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  William Farr

  Names, Perfect, Attention

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• When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, World, Coats

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Gladys.. work has kept you fit
  And Bill.. you never moan
  Well life's not for carrying cases
  With a butler of your own

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Fit, Butlers

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• In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Past, America

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• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Size, Nra

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• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

  Ezra Stiles

  Thinking, Law, Branches

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• But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.

  Liam Fox

  Events, Legacy, Pay

  "Liam Fox says Labour economic policies were national security liability" by Helene Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

  Seth Godin

  Phones, People, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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