Ron Wyden quote: "The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation."

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which t...
RON WYDEN

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to...
RON WYDEN

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it ...
RON WYDEN

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Ra...
RON WYDEN

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and ot...
RON WYDEN

I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs a...
RON WYDEN

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesqu...
RON WYDEN

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a pla...
RON WYDEN

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many...
RON WYDEN

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find ou...
RON WYDEN

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every Ameri...
RON WYDEN

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers fr...
RON WYDEN

With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose...
RON WYDEN

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers objec...
RON WYDEN

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs,...
RON WYDEN

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Inter...
RON WYDEN

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location a...
RON WYDEN

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see ...
RON WYDEN

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not ke...
RON WYDEN

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly hera...
RON WYDEN

I asked whether it was constitutional for Congress to intervene in an end-of-life case with a specif...
RON WYDEN

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their politi...
RON WYDEN

Every single day, the flood of pornographic and sleazy spam grows.
RON WYDEN

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly bel...
RON WYDEN

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl B...
RON WYDEN

We're not mandating fluffier pillows or creating a legal right to a bigger bag of peanuts. What we'r...
RON WYDEN

We cannot abandon them, and this legislation finds a fiscally responsible way of extending this succ...
RON WYDEN

the government isn't in the consumer protection business anymore.
RON WYDEN

at least puts a band-aid on a flawed policy.
RON WYDEN

We have a bit more direction today than before, but . . . there is still a long way to go.
RON WYDEN

Today's modest action starts the long march to start to reform the tax breaks as they relate to the ...
RON WYDEN

Everybody comes to a hearing, and they could be giving the same position paper from 10 years ago. Al...
RON WYDEN

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
RON WYDEN

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quic...
RON WYDEN

The United States Senate is not here to just staple the paperwork on this deal and then salute it. W...
RON WYDEN

If he's accurately quoted, I must say, it's outrageous, ... You all have indicated to us that you do...
RON WYDEN

How is it,
RON WYDEN

The testimony I have read makes it clear that additional resources are needed and needed now, ... Th...
RON WYDEN

[But her declarations weren't strong enough to convince some senators.] Gale Norton is no James Watt...
RON WYDEN

This voluntary program consists mostly of stuff they're already required to do,
RON WYDEN

This corporation resorted to a variety of legal, regulatory and accounting contortions to keep inves...
RON WYDEN

His answer was, 'I am concerned with judicial independence. Congress can prescribe standards, but wh...
RON WYDEN

This is indeed a concern, ... We will tackle it.
RON WYDEN

I'm telling you, the votes are there in the Unites States Senate, ... This is not a question of whet...
RON WYDEN

Oregon's fishing industry is a critical part of our state's economy, and it will benefit in many way...
RON WYDEN

They got the right people involved to stop the activity.
RON WYDEN

I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarante...
RON WYDEN

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have...
RON WYDEN

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, ...
RON WYDEN

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
RON WYDEN

I'll tell you, gentlemen, it's this kind of case that makes many of us in Congress skeptical that it...
RON WYDEN

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their s...
RON WYDEN

[But Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said that last week's breakthroughs were less the result of...
RON WYDEN

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allo...
RON WYDEN

It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look fo...
RON WYDEN

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to ...
RON WYDEN

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Govern...
RON WYDEN

I hope events unfold as he suggests, but I'm not yet there. I heard the president, for example, say ...
RON WYDEN

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a parti...
RON WYDEN

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now th...
RON WYDEN

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply ...
RON WYDEN

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl B...
RON WYDEN

The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil ...
RON WYDEN

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, b...
RON WYDEN

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By ...
RON WYDEN

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.
RON ESTES

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE

The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE

I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE

I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE

When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE

You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi...
RON REAGAN

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there wo...
RON JOHNSON

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to ...
RON KIND

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.
RON CHERNOW

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dicti...
RON RASH

I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and princ...
RON DESANTIS

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ...
RON WOOD

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a lo...
RON CHERNOW

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current s...
RON CHERNOW

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whol...
RON CHERNOW

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in sto...
RON CHERNOW

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. The...
RON CHERNOW

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.
RON BLOMBERG

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther Ki...
RON FOURNIER

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spen...
RON JOHNSON

I am very grateful to Jeb Bush for his support of my candidacy.
RON DESANTIS

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days follow...
RON FOURNIER

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
RON ZIEGLER

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin...
RON CHERNOW

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking...
RON WHITE

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by my...
RON WHITE

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ...
RON WOOD

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can...
RON JAWORSKI

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated ...
RON FOURNIER

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged...
RON FOURNIER

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin...
RON HOWARD

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late ...
RON PERLMAN

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappea...
RON PERLMAN

A small profit it better than a big loss
RON RASH

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authenti...
RON FOURNIER

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You s...
RON EGLASH

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.
RON TODD

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need...
RON RASH

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life ...
RON WHITE

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...
RON PAUL

The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide ...
RON CHERNOW

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from ...
RON HALL

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
RON HOWARD

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
RON LUCIANO

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can ...
RON JAWORSKI

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
RON BROWN

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
RON BLOMBERG

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was vie...
RON CHERNOW

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
RON CARLSON

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures ...
RON KIND

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
RON CARLSON

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American...
RON PAUL

America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating ...
RON DESANTIS

We need a new generation of leaders who will promote policies that will foster economic growth and a...
RON DESANTIS

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. ...
RON LEWIS

We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to ille...
RON DESANTIS

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countri...
RON SUSKIND

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adeq...
RON LEWIS

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it&...
RON SUSKIND

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As la...
RON LEWIS

When I occasionally indulge in sort of a 'look back' at highlights, it's so interesting ...
RON HOWARD

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is n...
RON TAFFEL

I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of ...
RON CONWAY

When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Th...
RON HOWARD

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof c...
RON FOURNIER

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
RON REAGAN

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
RON PAUL

You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the ...
RON JAWORSKI

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
RON SILVER

Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African villag...
RON EGLASH

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the ...
RON EGLASH

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregna...
RON FOURNIER

When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that ...
RON CONWAY

Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there... it is the universe.
RON CONWAY

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like...
RON CONWAY

I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' ap...
RON CONWAY

I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.
RON CONWAY

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are bu...
RON CONWAY

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, '...
RON CONWAY

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone li...
RON CONWAY

The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companie...
RON CONWAY

Social media is here to stay, and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers'...
RON CONWAY

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is impo...
RON CONWAY

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of...
RON CONWAY

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skept...
RON CONWAY

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an ag...
RON CONWAY

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competit...
RON CONWAY

I am most proud of what sfCiti has accomplished with the 'Circle the Schools' program, which...
RON CONWAY

You can't learn to be ambitious and driven.
RON CONWAY

Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a ...
RON CONWAY

Anytime is a good time to start a company.
RON CONWAY

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

Ron Wyden

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