The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
Javier Bardem

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
Jim Cooper

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
John Conyers

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards Deming

The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.
Joe Baca

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
William Vickrey

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
Rosa DeLauro

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.
George Ripley

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.
Sanjay Kumar

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
Ajay Devgan

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
Charlie Norwood

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
Michael Ignatieff

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.
Cathy McMorris

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian