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The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.
Juan Williams

President, Congress, Laws

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Jerzy Kosinski

Hold, Forum, Persons

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart

Technology, Place, Star

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population.
Ismail Haniyeh

Beginning, Since, Army

Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox

Possible, Spend, Priority

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.
Matthew Rhys

Thinking, Done, Role

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
Michael Shermer

Problems, Large, Smarter

Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
Busy Philipps

Good, Great, Yourself

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
Jim Fowler

Powerful, Two, Space

All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.
Todd English

Diet, Advice, Healthy

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
Henry Wilson

Prayer, Here, Lord

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
Bjorn Lomborg

Time, Death, Past

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
Grover Norquist

Government, Free, Next

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.
Grover Norquist

Become, State, House

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
Julie Bishop

Time, Means, Loss

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
David Fincher

Good, Movies, Stupid

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
Herbert Read

Country, Off, Few

I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
Cindy Margolis

Best, Done, America

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Design, Greatest, Matter

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.
Todd Barry

Understand, Comedy, Looking

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
George Thorogood

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Ann Richards

Health, Women, Needs

You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
George Stephanopoulos

Confidence, Political, Real

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Wish, Accidents, Failed

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fun, Book, Writing

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen, Sr.

Today, Tomorrow, Done

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh

Truth, Beautiful, Young

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Patricia Highsmith

Alone, Dream, Writers

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
Enrico Fermi

Again, Point, Machine

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
Graeme Murphy

Around, Yes, Stuck

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