George Miller Quotations

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?

There is a recognition that the current critical habitat arrangement doesn't work, for a whole host of reasons. There are some in the environmental community who think the answer is just no to any change, and I think that's a problem.

More and more companies are treating the federal government as a dumping ground for the pension promises they made to their workers and don't want to keep, ... With each passing day, the likelihood of a taxpayer bailout of the agency increases.

I am very concerned that the hard-earned pensions of hundreds of thousands of Delta and Northwest employees are now at risk,

I feel good just to get out with a win.

He flew the aircraft all the way to the ground. He did what he was supposed to do, from what we can tell. Unfortunately, it wasn't his day.

We've got to know exactly what we're doing, ... This is a big deal.

He is out of the hospital and is recovering at home.

Jim Vincent, when he had this problem, was near our building, and there were other people on the ground, and he did everything he could to get the aircraft away from the building and crash it where it crashed so that he wouldn't hurt anybody.

Land deals are being cut behind closed doors with tremendous special-interest pressure and limited public input,

Our plan will help students and colleges affected by Katrina and Rita to quickly get back to learning and teaching, and will assist the Gulf Coast's plan to revitalize its economy and culture,

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Looking at it from a money point of view, I think we did the right thing. We knew it was going to pass.

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

These are things you can do on your own to get ready.

It would be unconscionable for the House to continue to do business as usual, ... when the voices and needs of millions of hard-working American families have been closed out of the people's house.

This bill, and the process by which it passed, is a disgrace.

A major earthquake near the Delta or a severe break in Delta levees would cause significant flooding at great human and economic cost for the (San Francisco) Bay area and the state, ... Congress needs to provide this funding before it's too late.

At least those wages will be protected where federal money is involved, and that's very important to the economy of that region. This is why we couldn't understand how the president could take such a callous position immediately after the hurricane to just decimate the protections for the wages of people who are trying to rebuild their families, their communities, their lives.

It's rather unusual that any prosecutor would pass up the opportunity to grab an absolute key, central witness that's in plain sight.

At the same time, their bill creates a new system of giveaways to developers and real estate speculators regardless of whether their land claims are legitimate and with no limits on how much the taxpayer will be asked to pay, ... This action will produce harmful consequences for taxpayers and devastating consequences for endangered animals, fish, and plants.

The federal government, especially the president of the United States, has not stepped up to his part of the compact.