Bill Quotes

• We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Senate

• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wisdom
  • Bill
  • Applause

• At this point, everything is on the table, ... All possible offset options remain open, including reconsidering highway projects sought by members in the transportation bill.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Options
  • Bill
  • Transportation

• It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Nature
  • Innocent
  • Presumption

• Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bill
  • Commander-In-Chief

• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Read

• If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Motion

• I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes. As long as is televised.

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Charity
  • Club
  • Full

• It's very encouraging to be included. Last year, we played one date in Nashville and it was our first experience. But in light of the popularity of 'Kiss Me,' it worked out again this year. And it's amazing to be on such a great bill.

  

  Leigh Nash Sixpence None the Richer
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Encouraging

• Paid my phone bill. I had to borrow seven times what it was to pay the bill.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Phone
  • Bill
  • Borrow

• Only the Netherlands and Denmark have a completely clean bill.

  

  Andris Piebalgs
  • Clean
  • Bill

• You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Job
  • Think
  • Receipt

• Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • She
  • Happy
  • Bill

• This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it's a bigger country than the United States is, ... I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Country
  • United States
  • Infrastructure

• On Bill Clinton: "Bill's got this big aura, he's a big guy, he's got big hands.

  

  Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett All Saints
  • Bill

• As you may be aware, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by the President on January 8, 2002. I was happy to support this bill, which was the result of months of intense bipartisan negotiations. This legislation sets the stage for a limited, but productive, role for the federal government in the education of our nation's children.

  

  Allen Boyd
  • Children
  • May
  • Happy

• I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

  

  Ernest Seyd
  • America
  • Bill
  • Coin

• Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of “reconciliation” between the sections, “material reconstruction” of the South, and a way of restoring “mutual respect and affection” at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Material
  • Reconciliation
  • Reconstruction

• There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Work
  • May
  • House

• 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
  • Guy
  • Worlds
  • Cemetery

• If you want the (final bill) to succeed, you better keep ANWR out.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Final
  • Bill

• I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Car
  • Consumer

• This bill lets our nation fight back by renewing important provisions that allow information sharing among government agencies and increased penalties for those who commit terrorist crimes. It strikes the right balance between protecting lives and liberty.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Liberty

• You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Health
  • Innocent
  • Vote

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