Corker Quotes & Sayings

It's simple. If you go to see 'Saturday Night Fever' expecting it to be good, it's a corker. However, if you go expecting it to be a crock of shit, it's that, too. Thus 'Saturday Night Fever' can exist in two mutually opposing states at the very same time, yet only by the weight of our expectations. From this principle we can deduce that any opposing states can be governed by human expectation - even, as in the case of retro-deficit-engineering, the present use of a future technology."
"I think I understand that. Does it work with any John Travolta movie?"
"Only the artistically ambiguous ones such as 'Pulp Fiction' or 'Face/Off.' 'Battlefield Earth' doesn't work, because it's a stinker no matter how much you think you're going to like it, and 'Get Shorty' doesn't work either, because you'd be hard-pressed not to enjoy it, irrespective of any preconceived notions. — Jasper Fforde

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it. — Bob Corker

It was a morning of ethereal splendor - such a morning as Noah knew as he gazed from his pitchy bulwarks over limitless, sunlit waters while the dove circled and mounted and became lost in the shining heavens; such a morning as only the angels saw on the first day of that rash cosmic experiment that had resulted, at the moment, in landing Corker and Pigge here in the mud, stiff and unshaven and disconsolate. — Evelyn Waugh

If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency. — Bob Corker

I spent hours putting that cassette together. To me, making a tape is like writing a letter - there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one ... A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention, and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch ... oh, there are loads of rules. (pg. 88-9) — Nick Hornby

If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?' — Bob Corker

I want to see the economy rebound. — Bob Corker

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable. — Bob Corker

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us. — Bob Corker

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky. — Justine Larbalestier

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws. — Bob Corker

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice. — Bob Corker

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff. — Bob Corker

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference. — Bob Corker

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be. — Bob Corker

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country. — Bob Corker

In business, you try to solve problems. — Bob Corker

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another. — Bob Corker

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25. — Bob Corker

We need to make sure we have secure borders. — Bob Corker

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far. — Bob Corker

Not every problem is solvable, okay. — Bob Corker

Republicans will own Congress. — Bob Corker

The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world. — Bob Corker

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures. — Bob Corker

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules. — Nick Hornby

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate. — Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position, — Bob Corker

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings. — Bob Corker

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office. — Bob Corker