Enzi Quotes & Sayings

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. — Michael Enzi

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned. — Michael Enzi

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can't see each other. — Tim O'Reilly

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party. — Michael Enzi

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. — Michael Enzi

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. — Gerald J. Popek

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money. — Michael Enzi

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism. — Michael Enzi

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer. — Tom Brady

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. — Michael Enzi

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free. — Michael Enzi

I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news. — Simon Hoggart

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money. — Michael Enzi

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. — Michael Enzi

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. — Arthur Potts Dawson

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties. — Michael Enzi

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.' — Curtis Jackson

The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die. — Cheshire Cat

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do. — Steve Jobs

If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price. — Michael Enzi

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see. — Ben Shahn

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate. — Michael Enzi

In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame. — Michael Enzi

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings. — Michael Enzi

To go under a river: there's a strange thing to do, a really weird idea. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few. — Joseph Campbell

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good. — Michael Enzi

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.' — Michael Enzi

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing. — Michael Enzi

I think we need to find somebody that can meet that standard. — Michael Enzi

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families. — Michael Enzi

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. — William S. Burroughs

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people. — Michel De Montaigne

It's amazing how often "right" is mere shorthand for "safe. — Mari Passananti