George Miller Quotes (42 Quotes)

Pontiac continues to be our trouble spot.

that fails to make any headway in the desperately needed area of energy efficiency.

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,

They need some additional pay. They need interest free loans, ... It's an outrageous thing that we would do this to these individuals because so many of them are not going to be able to pay this back.

The Republicans are admitting defeat for this year.

The diocese, in theory, was not supposed to give any of the land. I think Maurice hoped that it would become the diocese's central location and that its cathedral would be built in Maspeth.

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.

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

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.

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

We need to get our arms around more of these women so we can stop these deaths.

Miller said the passage of the bond was important, since he expects the value of the property to increase in the coming years, which would make it a more expensive purchase for taxpayers. Looking at it from a money point of view, I think we did the right thing, ... We knew it was going to pass.

We are rushing forward with this legislation . . . without any information.

This is the cost of Congress letting oil companies write public policy. The oil and gas royalty holiday is one of the most egregious giveaways of taxpayer money in our history and it can and should be stopped. This program is not justified, period. But it is even more outrageous coming at a time when Congress is cutting food stamps, home heating assistance and college loans for poor and middle class families. You just cannot justify giving away 7 billion in tax dollars to oil companies recording the largest profits ever in corporate history.

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,

The Department of Education is trying to define itself out of trouble by setting the bar very high for what constitutes covert propaganda, ... But this report shows that, in case after case after case, grantees without disclosing who was paying them took taxpayers' money and used it to promote controversial policies. Department officials allowed this practice to continue with such frequency and such consistency that they cannot now claim that they were ignorant that it was happening. Either the department is grossly incompetent when it comes to awarding grants and contracts, or it is misleading investigators and engaging in a cover up of the misuse of taxpayer dollars.

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,

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.

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.

If the quality is there, and it's compelling, audiences will commit. Not only will they commit, they will also buy the DVD and watch it over and over again. And that's the trick, how to make it compelling. If it speaks to the audience, we will listen.

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

Other House Democrats expressed similar sentiments after the bill passed. Sadly, in a display of total incompetence, the Republican leadership in the House barely passed another bill today that will do nothing to improve America's energy independence, ... Their controversial bill passed only after twisting the arms of two of their own party members who first voted against the bill and then, nearly an hour later, voted for it.

In New Orleans, where a quarter of the city was poor, the prevailing wage for construction labor is about 9 per hour, according to the Department of Labor. In effect, President Bush is saying that people should be paid less than 9 an hour to rebuild their communities.

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.

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

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

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.

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

President Bush finally realized that his Gulf Coast wage cut was a bad idea that hurt the workers and their families affected by Katrina. But let me be clear - the president is backing down today only because he had no other choice.

I think we could've played a little better. But we're totally happy (with the season). We played six freshmen today, and that sets the tone for seasons to come. We went so far past my expectations.

All were pivotal stories in the Australian narrative ... And obviously there is something elemental about the stories, and if that is the case, they speak across time to us today.

but what is so interesting about Lost , for example, is that it is a kind of miniseries. The audience will commit itself if the story is good enough.

We now have the chief lobbyist for big tobacco financing the payoff of the speaker's fine for lying to Congress,

Rep. George Miller ( news , bio , voting record ) of California, the ranking Democrat on the Education Committee, said the religion provision marred an otherwise strong bill. That is wrong, ... It is a violation of our civil rights laws and it has sunk the chances of making this important bill a truly bipartisan bill.

For the first time in our history, we'll have a home of our own,

This comes at a time when students are already deeply in debt.

I think it's important to know whether or not he did this knowing and how he transmitted that information, how he presented that information and what meetings were held,

Maybe they thought they could do it on their own.

This bill is the largest raid on student aid in history. At a time when millions of American families are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing tuition costs, it is shameful for Congress to raid student aid in order to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

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 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.

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.