Bill Press Quotes

The Trans-Pacific Partnership If corporations liked NAFTA, they will love TPP—and American workers hate the prospect of it. As some Democratic members of Congress succinctly put it, TPP is “NAFTA on steroids.”

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• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Perfect
  • Years
  • Hours

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Day
  • Never
  • Blood

• You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Character
  • You
  • Yourself

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Bad
  • Know

• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  

  Janet Leigh
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Together

• I try to act out of faith.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Faith
  • Act

• Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• That's what the general gives me. That's what our budget can withstand.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Budget
  • Gives
  • Withstand

• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Past
  • Teacher
  • Challenges

• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Man
  • Humiliating
  • Fly-Fishing

• I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Independent
  • Congress

• Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Americans
  • Congress
  • Washington

• Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Different
  • Want
  • Software

• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Environment
  • Forget
  • Worst

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership If corporations liked NAFTA, they will love TPP—and American workers hate the prospect of it. As some Democratic members of Congress succinctly put it, TPP is “NAFTA on steroids.”

  

  Bill Press
  • Congress
  • Partnership
  • Prospect