Jim Cooper quote: "Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions."

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
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Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is...
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The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same tim...
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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the A...
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If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury ...
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Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. G...
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This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly lo...
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America ...
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There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the M...
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one of most disturbing developments of the war.
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[Some lawmakers who did not take part in the hearing agree.] It's all about making speeches and issu...
JIM COOPER

This seems to be a substantial development in the war, when one of the most highly paid and trusted ...
JIM COOPER

This major upgrade has incredible new features for beginner and veteran users alike, including sever...
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn i...
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With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace ...
JIM COOPER

We won the battle of the crowds. There's a lot of enthusiasm in the community. This particular schoo...
JIM COOPER

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
JIM COOPER

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They lo...
JIM COOPER

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked...
JIM COOPER

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the ...
JIM COOPER

I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.
ANDERSON COOPER

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It...
ANDERSON COOPER

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c...
JACKIE COOPER

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ...
JACKIE COOPER

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit...
JACKIE COOPER

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
JACKIE COOPER

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe...
JACKIE COOPER

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me...
JACKIE COOPER

But I want to do good work, after this series.
JACKIE COOPER

But the working I would always want to do.
JACKIE COOPER

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
JACKIE COOPER

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a...
JACKIE COOPER

Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the...
JACKIE COOPER

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
JACKIE COOPER

I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them...
JACKIE COOPER

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
JACKIE COOPER

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
JACKIE COOPER

There was only so much television you could do.
JACKIE COOPER

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
JACKIE COOPER

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER

People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n...
JACKIE COOPER

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
JACKIE COOPER

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
JACKIE COOPER

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a...
JACKIE COOPER

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau...
JACKIE COOPER

If it's boring, then it's tiring.
JACKIE COOPER

There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's p...
ANDERSON COOPER

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha...
BRADLEY COOPER

It's probably the worst basketball we've played all year, and it couldn't have come at a worse time....
AL COOPER

I think the team was so happy for playing a good half that they forgot we had 16 more minutes to pla...
AL COOPER

That's heroic stuff. We knew he'd be (our top player as a freshman) and he's worked hard to develop....
AL COOPER

We've got some question marks with regards to pitching. (But) we're a lot more than just (Clark). We...
AL COOPER

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't...
BRADLEY COOPER

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
JILLY COOPER

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
GARY COOPER

I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had...
GARY COOPER

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
GARY COOPER

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
GARY COOPER

I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks ...
JILLY COOPER

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I u...
ANDERSON COOPER

I'm not showing tight shots of rotting corpses. We've tried to be respectful. We don't want anyone t...
ANDERSON COOPER

She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is...
ANDERSON COOPER

Hell yes! I've been fighting the hard fight to try and get money, I KNEW this was gonna' happen and ...
ANDERSON COOPER

These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them,
ANDERSON COOPER

To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.
ANDERSON COOPER

[Anyway,] Awkward T.V. Moments ... I decided at the last second that I just had to have my laptop. S...
ANDERSON COOPER

I wouldn't call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in do...
ANDERSON COOPER

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjo...
ANDERSON COOPER

It's not happening, they're nowhere near the airport.
ANDERSON COOPER

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
MICHELLE COOPER

Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry th...
COOPER DAVIS

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TOMMY COOPER

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding pe...
ANDERSON COOPER

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the ...
ALICE COOPER

This community cannot afford to go backwards we need to be moving ahead and moving together regardle...
ALICE COOPER

If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things,
ALICE COOPER

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.
ALICE COOPER

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a big...
ALICE COOPER

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
ALICE COOPER

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call....
ALICE COOPER

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
ALICE COOPER

it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the p...
ANDERSON COOPER

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the wind...
TOMMY COOPER

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
JILLY COOPER

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a femal...
ALICE COOPER

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper ...
ALICE COOPER

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
ALICE COOPER

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One les...
ANDERSON COOPER

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, H...
ALICE COOPER

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers u...
BRADLEY COOPER

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because ...
ALICE COOPER

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a l...
ANDERSON COOPER

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why the...
ALICE COOPER

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough c...
ALICE COOPER

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
TOMMY COOPER

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
JILLY COOPER

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you al...
ANDERSON COOPER

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes call...
ALAN COOPER

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.
DAVE COOPER

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
ALICE COOPER

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He sai...
TOMMY COOPER

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
ANDERSON COOPER

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing...
ANDERSON COOPER

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.
ANDERSON COOPER

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
JEFF COOPER

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a lib...
TOMMY COOPER

Even if 99 percent of international air were stopped, every country would in all probability still b...
BEN COOPER

I got, from my perspective, a random e-mail, 'Hi ... wanna put out a record?' I had to trace it back...
BEN COOPER

Anyone who was impacted by Ken, if it's former players or parents of former players whose sons may l...
BEN COOPER

I will give you my strong support, as I already have.
BEN COOPER

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and y...
ALICE COOPER

You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones ...
DOMINIC COOPER

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an ind...
CHRIS COOPER

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my C...
BRADLEY COOPER

Rooms are changing. Work is getting harder and there is more pain than there used to be in doing the...
AMANDA COOPER

I was unaware they had set the preliminary hearing, but the district attorney's office has been in c...
AMANDA COOPER

We'll be traveling on behalf of other Democratic governors as needed and as invited.
AMANDA COOPER

They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.
AMANDA COOPER

It was never on his schedule, and I don't know how that (information) got out there. His (Richardson...
AMANDA COOPER

Obviously it does raise more attention and get more coverage because it's New Hampshire.
AMANDA COOPER

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm...
JEANNE COOPER

Rape is a crime of the heart for the victim, and a crime of convenience for the perpetrator. I was n...
ANDREA COOPER

Ninety percent of the time, rape is done by someone you know. Not a creepy man in the alley.
ANDREA COOPER

Everyone wanted to know why she did it. And I said because her boyfriend broke up with her. He was h...
ANDREA COOPER

I saw no pulse but a gun in her hand to her neck.
ANDREA COOPER

It's a great time to come out and enjoy the spring with your family. Show support of your community ...
ANDREA COOPER

We're hoping to cover different decades over the last 50 or 60 years. We're trying a musical theme.
ANDREA COOPER

You may remember going to Cherry Park and getting a little frog cookie. Gourmet Gardens is back, and...
ANDREA COOPER

I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog.
ANDREA COOPER

One year and five months later she'd be dead.
ANDREA COOPER

We're disturbed to see the number of jailed journalists rise, and we're particularly troubled that t...
ANN COOPER

The crackdown is clearly continuing, and the revival of old charges against journalists is part of t...
ANN COOPER

Journalists in Nepal have every reason to protest the king's continued campaign of intimidation agai...
ANN COOPER

These extremely repressive amendments to the press law are a major blow to journalists in Nepal, who...
ANN COOPER

Togolese authorities must investigate this assault fully and prosecute those responsible, ... This k...
ANN COOPER

The war in Iraq might lead one to think that reporters are losing their lives on the battlefield. Bu...
ANN COOPER

When my section met (to discuss the air conditioning), we were told that our classrooms would hopefu...
ANN COOPER

We hope that those responsible for these murders and those of other journalists will eventually be b...
ANN COOPER

Justice will not be served until everyone responsible for this cold-blooded assassination is prosecu...
ANN COOPER

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explana...
ANN COOPER

It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studyin...
ANNA COOPER

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every ...
ANNA COOPER

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that th...
ANNA COOPER

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear ...
ANNA COOPER

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting thei...
ANNA COOPER

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered b...
ANNA COOPER

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of hum...
ANNA COOPER

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Che...
ANDERSON COOPER

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenue...
ANDERSON COOPER

It leaves us vulnerable to tips, but boys go down the lines so well, I felt we needed to adjust.
AMY COOPER

One of our biggest concerns is blocking. So we'll play a rotation defense.
AMY COOPER

We've got those four key players. Other than that, it's tough ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â we'...
AMY COOPER

We get caught so many times when we're not penetrating with our hands to block.
AMY COOPER

That's one thing I would like to see us improve on, is serving more aggressively. Brenna Redmond doe...
AMY COOPER

We had way too many freeballs,
AMY COOPER

We definitely want to make it to state. I see us second or third in our region. (The power points) m...
AMY COOPER

She's a tremendous middle blocker. You can't teach instinct and she has it.
AMY COOPER

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting...
AMY COOPER

[Cooper starts her second year as head coach Tuesday night when the Colts visit Class 4A Cienega, fe...
AMY COOPER

Snow is just as much a worry as frost, so we will take a look.
ANDREW COOPER

That's 500 kids we don't have to worry about, 500 kids who you don't have to worry about bringing a ...
ANDREW COOPER

We still have quite a bit of cloud cover which is stopping the overnight temperatures dropping too s...
ANDREW COOPER

He would have a special interest in promoting multilateralism in a more legal-based way. He would ha...
ANDREW COOPER

I think Pierre Pettigrew has had trouble finding space to flourish, and it appears that will be an o...
ANDREW COOPER

It was the juxtaposition of his speech, which was electrifying, with a lackluster David Davis speech...
ANDREW COOPER

The Conservatives have a yearning to find a strong charismatic leader who will solve all their probl...
ANDREW COOPER

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.
ANDREW COOPER

The government has managed to turn something that feels pretty populist into an issue that elicits a...
ANDREW COOPER

Voters quite like Charles Kennedy, but there is a question mark over whether he's someone they can s...
ANDREW COOPER

I can't leave until I know how the deal is going to end up. I have a responsibility to this camp and...
ALFRED COOPER

He made me feel like a second-class citizen.
ALFRED COOPER

It's a variety. You have to capitalize on what's really good that particular month.
ALFRED COOPER

The people who come here love the solitude of it. It's just beautiful, and they take good care of it...
ALFRED COOPER

I resent the fact that they're treating me like I'm inferior in some way because I like to hunt and ...
ALFRED COOPER

They will kill us. [Park officials] will cut us off over a period of time because they don't like wh...
ALFRED COOPER

I didn't feel the board should've moved so fast on these things.
BILL COOPER

The University of California system has a significant history of bringing great jobs and opportuniti...
BILL COOPER

If you have a large enough pocket of methane, it could explode, ... Gas is like water, it travels wh...
BILL COOPER

Tulare County will lose a lot of good people and opportunities for the future by exporting our brigh...
BILL COOPER

We are already part of a global marketplace in many respects. We import a significant amount of gas ...
BILL COOPER

[The homes swallowed by floodwaters posed a question the couple had never pondered:] What are they [...
BILL COOPER

Bottling is the one thing that is more challenging than harvest. Harvest is a process. Bottling is a...
BILL COOPER

At the time Mr. Schultz was gathering data for his book, Bill Cooper was Town Manager in New Glouces...
BILL COOPER

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
TOMMY COOPER

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other ...
GORDON COOPER

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around ...
TOMMY COOPER

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
JILLY COOPER

I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live T...
ANDERSON COOPER

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that arme...
JEFF COOPER

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college togeth...
ALICE COOPER

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made...
DOMINIC COOPER

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

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