Andrew Smith Quotes (22 Quotes)

A good legislator is someone who can get important legislation passed through the ability to marshal coalitions. Its the ability to get working coalitions formed behind bills.

The only way you really do this is if you love it. It takes dedication.

It wasn't my best effort, but with a great field like this, getting third is alright. The field was really good, and the competition was tough.

As a lame duck president with low approval ratings, hes not in a good position to sell this budget. The people in Congress can just wait him out.

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Virginia enjoys an equal-to status with the federal government when it comes to meat inspection. Right now, Virginia runs the meat-inspection program because of that agreement. But if we were to allow the sale of products that weren't inspected or slaughtered in an approved facility, we would be less than equal in status with the federal government, so the federal government would take over our inspection program, and the inspectors on that level would be much more stringent.

You do have a huge wine industry that's developing here, and I think that's an example where I think it's in America's interests to actually define products in terms of the location in which they were grown or made.

Guidance needs to be more targeted to the specific action rather than general.

If you want to read a sad book, read Say You Love Me.

The first thing that's needed is fatigue awareness training and there are a number of counter-measures available. What's missing is a procedure for employers for selecting from this menu.

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

I live here because Watterson is close to my classes and Watterson food court is convenient.

For safety-critical jobs we should be monitoring fatigue as much as alcohol. The difference is that alcohol is very easy to measure but fatigue is not.

One of my favorite places that we randomly drove to was New York, from Illinois. The drive was not as bad as we thought it would be, approximately 15 hours, and my friends and I just played music to sing along to throughout the drive.

I don't know if boring is the right word to describe the coming year. But it's not likely there will be anything controversial. It's going to be a status quo kind of year. The Legislature is in an enviable position as to what to do with all the extra money that is coming in.

I think primarily we've left our doors unlocked because it never occurred to us, generally, that this would happen. We live a rather casual life out here -- rather too casual.

Superman. Why else would I have his action figure.

We're reviewing the scope of what degree of confidentiality is necessary to protect the pueblos' interest, but to also balance that with the need for the public to be allowed to know what's going on in federal court.

A strong housing market should support confidence and provide some modest support to retail spending.

Nothing unexpected happened today. After three years of working in the Russian court system, expectations were low.

We still believe that dairy products sold should be pasteurized. We believe that to be the safest way to go. However, if the General Assembly seeks to add an exemption, we believe that, number one, the farm should be inspected for safety and cleanliness, and two, the product should be tested to ensure that it is free of pathogens.

I'm an aviation enthusiast. This is history in the making and I didn't want to miss it.