We don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good. This is a good bill. Is it a perfect bill? Probably not. Do we ever pass a perfect bill? Probably not,
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Related We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill. ARLEN SPECTER We have good reason to believe the Senate will (pass the bill). This is a bipartisan bill. DEBRA MARCUS It is hard to write the perfect farm bill. RON HECK Maybe our bill is not perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than what the House did. TOM HARKIN We support the bill by Sen. John McCain. It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction. ENRIQUE MORONES George's institutional knowledge was a perfect fit. We need someone who is going to be an aggressive... JOE MUNEM We think we've got a very secure system. Is it perfect? Probably not. MALCOLM ANDREWS This is not our bill. We didn't ask for the bill. We're not lobbying on the bill. JEFF BENTOFF Look at what people are paying for drugs in other countries, ... This bill may not be perfect but it... GIL GUTKNECHT Is it perfect? Probably not. MALCOLM ANDREWS It's a perfect fit for the pharmaceutical industry. The fact they he shaped this bill adds to his ca... LARRY NOBLE The tax bill is probably our most important bill. We should know where the money comes from, and how... ROBERT HERNON House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. T... JOHN BOEHNER If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Perfect is the enemy of good. VOLTAIRE I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER The Olympics are perfect for this. Anything potentially that good is probably inevitable. JONATHAN MILLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We want the fairest arrangement we can. There is probably no perfect system. RUSS GRANIK Bill was my perfect match. (Love-making) was explosive and amazing. KARRINE STEFFANS We are closer than we were last week. We are not yet to a perfect bill, There's always the opportuni... BILL HERRLE We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing. CHARLIE BELL Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. SIMONE WEIL That we can agree on the penalties is very important, ... It's good news for trying to pass a steroi... CLIFF STEARNS We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect. KAPIL SIBAL Fitch is as improved as you want to see and a very good team. They had won four in a row. It was a c... TED KACZYNSKI It's like a commercial. It's flashy with it's 'Life is good. Life is happy. Life is perfect.' But in... JOSIE MERCHANT The perfect may be the enemy of the good. DAVID PEARLMAN The governor's bill is not a gay rights bill. DAN FURMANSKY Everything we do is perfect. And if it is not perfect, it is as close to perfect as possible. ANTOINE SMITH It is not a for-profit bill - it is a for-safety bill. JOE ROBINSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. BILL MAHER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM We certainly wouldn't want that to be a holdup to not getting the bill done. REP. DENNIS OZMENT We all love the 2002 farm bill. We don't know if we'll get to keep it. It's a good safety net. There... BOB WORTH The Senate passed a pretty good bill and we don't want to see it put in the dumpster. JAMES BRADY We are politically realistic and realize a bill would not pass. We just don't feel a constitutional ... STEVEN BLACK We will not be sending a bill to the contractor. BETH MARTIN My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage ... STOCKWELL DAY I'm not going to ask for a pardon. In fact I'll probably be going to jail again. But those who want ... REP. ALVIN HOLMES We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities. BILL MAHER We need to look at the whole package. It would be a good reminder that this decision is a very small... JOSE VASQUEZ If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass. DAN MARINO I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. DON NICKLES We should do a good enforcement bill and leave the administration to execute it, then in the meantim... JEFF SESSIONS It's started to suck a lot of our profits right out of the business. We have to pay not only a gas b... LEO LUCIER We think this bill raises some good issues, ARI SCHWARTZ The House renewable fuels bill is a good start. MONTE SHAW All we're trying to do is get her a fair trial, and we plead with the House to pass this bill to giv... BOB SCHINDLER Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) VOLTAIRE This is probably the first true bill customers have seen. Until they see it, it doesn't hit them. LARRY GRAHAM You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we ca... DAN WEBSTER It is not a perfect world. But we can do better. LUKE LIROT There are already some critics who say this bill is a good idea but it may not go far enough. The bi... DOUG ISENBERG The American people believe that there is something out there . . . with their name on it, ... There... CLAY SHAW A Democratic Congress would help some of the Clinton agenda, but I would also stand opposed to some ... JOHN MURRAY We were never perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. But it's not to late for us. We can still b... PITTACUS LORE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. A. J. P. TAYLOR Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we tr... JIM BUNNING I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No langu... YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO The first priority of this office is, 'Is it a bill we can administer? BEN BEAKES I'm so not perfect. SIENNA MILLER I'm not perfect. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No l... YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO There are probably bartenders who know more about the Patriots than I do. But I know Bill. I wouldn'... RON WOLF It's not perfect. But George Mitchell is credible. He should do a good job. FAY VINCENT The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the... LINDSEY GRAHAM It's not a good deal for them. The impact of the bill is going to be higher phone rates and lower qu... JUNE LYLE The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots. MICHAEL OVITZ Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. POPPY Z. BRITE The (lawsuit) route is not perfect, in the same way that the war against drugs isn't perfect either,... CHARLES SIMS If we look at the balance between good and evil, our world as it is has an imbalance of evil and it ... GARY F EVANS... She knew too much. -A SARA SHEPARD Did you see more glass? J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... J.D. SALINGER This bill is about sending a message to irresponsible dog owners, and not just jailing a bad neighbo... LARRY JUST In a perfect world it would be you and me against the world. But we are not living in a perfect worl... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE They want to pull the bill in a clandestine way. They want to be able to pull the bill with our fing... TOM DASCHLE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Whether or not it's going to be a good bill, it'll take some time to tell. ROBERT LLOYD Is this project perfect? No, it?s not perfect. ART GREEN Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country. STEWART ALSOP There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world,... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The failure of the Maryland General Assembly to pass a slots bill is clearly responsible for this an... ROBERT EHRLICH This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect. MICHAEL STRAHAN If we need a law passed, obviously we need the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass that ... MICHAEL MOORE Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. TRAVIS BARKER They weigh the issues, the competing interests, and make clear decisions on what might be a good bil... BARBARA PETERSEN I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT What we couldn't accept was the new mandatory spending under this bill, which would open the federal... SHERWOOD BOEHLERT New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. LEWIS MUMFORD The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game. MICKEY MANTLE This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work, DENNIS HASTERT The world is not a perfect place and never will be,all we can do is hope for humanity K.L
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