Bill Quotes

• 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

• Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

  

  Mike Will Made It
  • Money
  • Stress
  • Bill

• The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Shoes
  • Hotel
  • Francis

• I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • Bill
  • Session
  • Defeating

• I 'm grateful for the success that husband Bill and I have had, we both come from hard-working families. We both have worked very hard.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Success
  • Husband
  • Bill

• Eight days later he sent to Congress the most sweeping bill for civil rights up to that time, and urged it ‘not merely for reasons of economic efficiency, world diplomacy and domestic tranquility—but above all because it is right.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Congress
  • Civil Rights
  • Bill

• I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

  

  George Stephenson
  • Passed
  • Bill
  • Railway

• I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles. I believe this bill is wrong. The consultation process was a complete sham. It is opposed by the established church. It has caused deep and needless divisions within the Conservative Party. There is no mandate for it. There are huge potential consequences... and the nation faces much more serious challenges which the government needs to address.

  

  Gerald Howarth
  • Marriage
  • Challenges
  • Nation

• Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

  

  Alvin Holmes
  • Marriage
  • Bill
  • Same-Sex

• I went to prison, I paid my bill.

  

  George Michael
  • Prison
  • Bill

• With such strong support from all sides of the political spectrum, we are hopeful the medical marijuana bill will move forward quickly.

  

  Adam Horowitz
  • Support
  • Sides
  • Bill

• 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

• Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Choices
  • Bill
  • Debts

• 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
  • Law
  • Bill
  • Constituents

• When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

  

  Susan Davis
  • Political
  • Plays
  • Bill

• If this bill goes down, it will be the fault of my own party, and that's where the blame will lie

  

  Chris Shays
  • Party
  • Fault
  • Goes Down

• I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

  

  Stokely Carmichael
  • White
  • Civil Rights
  • Bill

• We all live in an ongoing series of calamities. I don't know of any individual who doesn't have a series of calamities. Life doesn't operate where, you make a certain amount of money, you pay your bills, you move on from day-to-day-to-day. No! What happens is, you make your money, you pay your bills, and then a new bill comes up that's completely unexpected.

  

  Neal Gabler
  • Life
  • Happen
  • Calamities

• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  

  Alexander Beresford Hope
  • Country
  • Rights
  • Bill

• Most people treat IRA contributions like they're paying a bill. They should think about it as paying themselves.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Paying
  • Bill
  • Contributions

• Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

  

  Steve Stivers
  • Future
  • Congress
  • Bill

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