Bill Burton quote: "They're trying to pack the house and do some sort of made-for-TV show of strength. But the bottom line is that you're spending all that money to speak to a room full of people who have already made up their minds. You can spend a lot of money for bells and whistles and dog and pony shows. But that doesn't build your organization, and caucuses are about organization, not bells and whistles."

Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON

What we're passionate about, along with Jennifer, is design from the essential elements. The raw cha...
BILL BURTON

Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.
BILL BURTON

We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they...
BILL BURTON

Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown...
BILL BURTON

Tom DeLay 's decision to leave Congress is just the latest piece of evidence that the Republican Par...
BILL BURTON

New Jersey families sent Congressman Scott Garrett to Washington to represent their values and compa...
BILL BURTON

Unfortunately for Speaker Hastert and his special-interest cronies, ... one photo-op press conferenc...
BILL BURTON

If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ...
BILL BURTON

Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON

It was fit for a small apartment.
BILL BURTON

We're raising more money than we've ever done before and we're recruiting more candidates.
BILL BURTON

I think she is going to have a tough challenge for sure.
BILL BURTON

benefited from the Tom DeLay machine.
BILL BURTON

Instead of proposing a repeal of the tax breaks he handed to the oil, gas and pharmaceutical giants,...
BILL BURTON

We've got a close eye on Washington state. It seems to me that people there are rejecting the Republ...
BILL BURTON

Americans from every community in the country have selflessly donated millions of dollars to help th...
BILL BURTON

Temperance is a bridle of gold.
BURTON

When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could b...
BURTON

[Betsy Burton, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. and a longtime critic of the UPU pri...
BURTON

Science is particularly needed to bring the attention of government policy-makers to problems that t...
BURTON

You're very affected by your early life, ... I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, ...
BURTON

The most recent testimony seems to be an admission that Microsoft set up the browser to knock off Ne...
BURTON

We're going to make a big din before it's over,
BURTON

When they returned the punt, ... the momentum totally swung in their favor.
BURTON

However, except for two-thirds of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, the numbers are predicated on very,...
BURTON

The airport development plan is going to determine the actual scope of the project and the cost, ......
BURTON

In every area of inquiry that we're involved in, suffice it to say there are an awful lot of interes...
BURTON

The guys who are seniors this year were sophomores when we came within a game of the playoffs [in 20...
BURTON

Espionage debriefings are exhaustive and meticulous,
BURTON

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extingui...
BURTON

There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just...
BURTON

Carl said, 'Please, can you come and set up your tents here?' So here we are. We're going to stay as...
BURTON

Is it a down year in the Big Ten region? No, ... But I think it's somewhat down in the particular ar...
BURTON

It's nice to come out on the winning side of one of those,
BURTON

Teachers have described him as friendly, well-liked,
BURTON

When we hit on all cylinders like we did today on offense, defense and special teams, I know that we...
BURTON

The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,
BURTON

Anytime anybody works and accumulates something, I don't think that it's right for somebody to just ...
BURTON

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi...
BURTON

He's another bigger running back-type that Iowa seems to like,
BURTON

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.
CLIFF BURTON

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish chara...
KATE BURTON

I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
KATE BURTON

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
KATE BURTON

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what...
KATE BURTON

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed ...
KATE BURTON

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played ...
KATE BURTON

I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eig...
KATE BURTON

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
KATE BURTON

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the oppo...
KATE BURTON

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a life...
LANCE BURTON

I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything i...
LANCE BURTON

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
LANCE BURTON

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employe...
LANCE BURTON

It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else...
LANCE BURTON

That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine...
LANCE BURTON

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON

I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
LANCE BURTON

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa...
LANCE BURTON

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
LANCE BURTON

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hell...
LANCE BURTON

When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of th...
BURTON RASCOE

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than kn...
ROBERT BURTON

Build castles in the air.
ROBERT BURTON

For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
ROBERT BURTON

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
ROBERT BURTON

See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
ROBERT BURTON

Penny wise, pound foolish.
ROBERT BURTON

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quarte...
GARY BURTON

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played...
GARY BURTON

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren'...
GARY BURTON

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no ot...
GARY BURTON

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check someth...
GARY BURTON

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ...
GARY BURTON

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something d...
GARY BURTON

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we...
GARY BURTON

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei...
GARY BURTON

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough...
GARY BURTON

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam...
GARY BURTON

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON

We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....
DAN BURTON

One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th...
BURTON CUMMINGS

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead t...
ROBERT BURTON

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
ROBERT BURTON

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
ROBERT BURTON

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON

Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON

Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
ROBERT BURTON

One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON

We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON

The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON

The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON

A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
ROBERT BURTON

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold,...
ROBERT BURTON

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which ...
ROBERT BURTON

What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of...
PAUL BURTON

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as...
ROBERT BURTON

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON

All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON

[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON

Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON

Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON

Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON

Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON

He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON

Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON

All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...
ROBERT BURTON

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON

I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be comple...
JESSIE BURTON

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. W...
LEVAR BURTON

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is ...
DAN BURTON

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forge...
TIM BURTON

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it...
HILARIE BURTON

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.
HILARIE BURTON

Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, &#...
TIM BURTON

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children...
LEVAR BURTON

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
TIM BURTON

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
RICHARD BURTON

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
RICHARD BURTON

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
TIM BURTON

I always liked strange characters.
TIM BURTON

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the h...
TIM BURTON

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dres...
SARAH BURTON

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve d...
AMANDA BURTON

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate g...
AMANDA BURTON

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock tha...
AMANDA BURTON

I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never...
AMANDA BURTON

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
AMANDA BURTON

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of ...
AMANDA BURTON

Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and ther...
NEEL BURTON

In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the thera...
NEEL BURTON

If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then ...
NEEL BURTON

Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde...
NEEL BURTON

As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no...
NEEL BURTON

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
CLIFF BURTON

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON

I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ...
HILARIE BURTON

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally dev...
TIM BURTON

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a chil...
TIM BURTON

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
ROBERT BURTON

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, f...
ROBERT BURTON

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It w...
AMANDA BURTON

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gab...
KATE BURTON

I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were t...
TIM BURTON

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is...
LEVAR BURTON

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playin...
CLIFF BURTON

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
RICHARD BURTON

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called ...
BURTON RICHTER

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
ROBERT BURTON

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much,...
TIM BURTON

Danny Elfman, the composer, tells me the only time he thinks I'm happy is when I'm on the sc...
TIM BURTON

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old faci...
BURTON RICHTER

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Some...
BURTON RICHTER

I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the ...
BURTON RICHTER

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