Jim Gibbons famous quotes

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To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Government #Pay #Height
Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].
-- Jim Gibbons

#Hippie #Somewhere Else #Iraq
I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Past #Thank God #Tonight
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Land #Community #Rural Communities
I don’t want to be a lonely governor.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Lonely #Want #Governors
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
-- Jim Gibbons

#War #Loss #Animal
I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Grateful #Years #People
One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Volcanoes #Atmosphere #Natural Elements

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved â€” I do not expect the house to fall â€” but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before

Jim Gibbons famous quotes

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