You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels. It's not unreasonable to expect corporations with 50, 75 or 100 percent growth in earnings this quarter to contribute a mere 10 percent of those profits to fuel fund programs,


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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY
I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS
When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY