#bill

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#attack #bills #china #down #freedom

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#billie #billie holiday #heard #holiday #i

Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost. ↗

— Scott Brown

#congress #cost #focused #nearly #out

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#buy #current #debt #deeper #enough

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#doing #drums #finished #i #listen

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#bill #bill of rights #defense #fight #homes

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#down #energy #energy bill #foreign #foreign oil

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#anything #bill #called #cannot #coming

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming