Sarbanes Quotes & Sayings

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail. — Patrick Henry

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments. — Barbara Mikulski

Do not allow your heart to whirl in the pleasures of senses. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions. — Jim Cooper

I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait. — Sam Langley

There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different. — John Sarbanes

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen. — Rob Portman

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. — Paul Sarbanes

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. — John Sarbanes

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups. — Barbara Mikulski

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. — John Sarbanes

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration. — Paul Sarbanes

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation. — Paul Sarbanes

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. — Paul Sarbanes

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns. — John Sarbanes

I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together. — Barbara Mikulski

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative. — John Sarbanes

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. — Paul Sarbanes

People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead. — Jill Soloway

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back. — John Sarbanes

Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes. — Herb Ritts

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk. — Paul Sarbanes

The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull. — Eleanor Herman

People wanna give you a $5 contribution online, but they have a million other things to do. But getting them to just sit still for 45 seconds and go in there and make the donation is, like, the hardest thing in the world. — John Sarbanes

You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable. — John Sarbanes

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor. — Paul Sarbanes