Stopgap Quotes

Those standards have not yet been codified. As a result, ports are doing stopgap methods. - Aaron Ellis

This is not a stopgap... It might be like this for a while. - Mike Rumph

These guys that are here are not stopgap players. They are our future. It's nice to see. - Lloyd McClendon

The plan all along was to burn through the Guard and Reserve as a stopgap measure, [since] the fall of 2003, when it finally started to sink in that [Army leaders] had a long war on their hands. - John Pike

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. - Charles Schumer

The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure. We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost. - Joshua B. Bolten

[Not surprisingly, AMD sees things differently.] It's clear the market is
forcing Intel to respond to AMD, and Intel is betting its success on another stopgap solution... Unfortunately Intel is clouding the enterprise market with
solutions that run hotter and offer minimal performance gains. - Henri Richard

[Bush aides said the appropriation request would be only a small fraction of the cost of recovery and reconstruction to deal with the hurricane, which cut a swath of damage across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.] The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure... We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost. - Joshua B. Bolten

[Against that backdrop, the budget impasse that has kept Congress from ending this year's session continued Sunday. Congress passed another one-day extension of stopgap funding to keep the government running while negotiators tried to narrow their many remaining differences with the White House on issues of education, immigration and tax policy. But Republicans said they were prepared to fight with President Clinton until the eve of the election--] if that's what it takes... This Week. - Trent Lott