“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.” HumansGovernmentGivenDifficultSupportPiecesImagineParticularDignityBillsHuman LifeMinistersBrownPrimeLegislationPrime MinisterSanctity Author:Keith O'Brien
“The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.” BigsMightCompanyPiecesHugeDrugBillsFundLegislationTaxpayersPrescriptionsMedicarePharmaceuticalPrescription DrugsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Al Franken
“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” WorldMeanLittlesLongTwoCountryRunningPiecesProducePercentTradeBillsSellsBillionsBuyingGoodsAssetsConsumingTreasuryGoods And ServicesTreasury Bill Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off.” IfsWorldReasonFeelingsMightAmericaPiecesHonestyBillsClintonLikesPieCherriesCherry Pie Author:George Carlin
“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.” FeelingsLawHoursHurtLossResultsPiecesEconomicCenturyTenTradeBillsSlaveProfitOperationsHistorianIt HurtsLegislationHumanitarianism19th CenturyAbolitionMarxistSlave TradeNoblemenProfit And Loss Author:Barbara Tuchman