Bills Quotes - Page 9

• I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Dancing, Judging

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2008.

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• I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

  Wesley Snipes

  Gun, Choices, Want

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• So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

  Edgar Bergen

  Book, Night, People

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• My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

  Ty Pennington

  Art, Jobs, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Jobs, People, Feelings

  "Danny Bonaduce on Anti-War Jane Fonda". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

  Craig Ferguson

  Giving, People, Upset

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• The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Party, Fighting

  "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress". Book by Chris Hedges, 2013.

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• How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?

  Rick Perry

  Country, Doe, World

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• There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

  George Washington

  Rights, Law, Trials

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.357

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• Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!

  Zoro

  Pride, Pay, Ready

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• Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Law, Insightful

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• All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

  Bob Dole

  Government, Voting, Needs

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• Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Thinking, Rights

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• We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Equal Pay, Day Care

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  Felicity Kendal

  Hair, Feminist, Fool

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• Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

  James Carville

  Drag, Camps, Trailers

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• Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

  Rich Lowry

  Real, Political, Genius

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• Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

  Evan Sayet

  Party, Pumpkin, Conviction

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• The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Running, Writing, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

  Susan Powter

  Light, Talking, Years

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rights, America

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

  Walter F. Mondale

  America, Generations, Lasts

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• It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

  Peter Roskam

  Dream, Thinking, Pipe

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