“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."” ThinkingFirstsMeanSaidLawNamesSidesPresidentPayEconomyFairsBillsPrioritiesPresident Obama Author:Lilly Ledbetter
“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.” FirstsCareersBills Author:Aaron Paul
“I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.” IfsFirstsNew YorkBillsLondonParisGatesMuseums Author:Jean Pigozzi
“I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.” ShouldFirstsPoliticalViewsRightsBillsUniversitySeekingOpponentsFacultyProfessorsAcademicProvisionBill Of RightsFiringLeftistsPolitical View Author:David Horowitz
“One of the first bills I helped passed was the Shore Protection Fund, which provides a stable source of funding for shore protection, something very important for Monmouth County and the entire Jersey Shore.” FirstsImportantSourceBillsProtectionFundShoreStableJerseyFundingCountyJersey Shore Author:Joe Kyrillos
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.” PeopleFirstsGovernmentWantedAmericaPoliticalRightsConstitutionBillsSevenLibertarianCommunismMore TimeArticlesLibertarianismRestraintEmployedLimited GovernmentBill Of RightsLimited FreedomAmerica FreedomConcluding Author:Edmund A. Opitz
“Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.” FirstsCountryPresidentLimitsConstitutionBillsRejects Author:George Washington