Propose Quotes

Young people propose ambitious projects that may not work, so they don't get funded. Everybody else is proposing something where they've already done 90 percent of the work. It's one reason why progress is so incremental. - Greg Simon

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection. - Morris West

You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes. - David Kendall

You guys have this great tradition that a woman can propose to a man on the 29th of February in a leap year. So, I thought, why not? - Anna. - Leap Years

You don't grow jobs, you don't grow the economy by raising taxes... The vice president thought that in 1984; he was wrong. He proposes now again what he calls rolling back some of the tax cut -- that's raising taxes. - Norm Coleman

You do not come back from those depths just by making some shifts here and there and cherry-picking a few issues you think are popular. It just isn't that easy. The notion that you can just snap your fingers after falling from the high 60s to the low 30s, that you can give a speech, propose some infrastructure spending and say some things that you think pull you back to the center is naive in the extreme. - Garry South

You cannot take back congressional majorities if, like the Democrats, you propose solutions that are easily blurred by the majority. - David Sirota

Yesterday was very interesting... Some defended free trade, while we proposed various alternatives beyond the mirages of a free trade agreement. - Hugo Chavez

With this proposed increase by our fisheries manager it probably would put the rest of the industry out of business. - Nick Crismale

With this proposed appropriation falling significantly short of the funds requested to support a tuition freeze by Penn State at 20 of its undergraduate campuses, that idea will need to be abandoned. The tuition freeze proposal was approved by Penn State's Board of Trustees during their September, 2005, meeting, dependent on a 9.5 percent increase in state appropriation. - Bill Mahon