27 Quotes by David Bowles

This new information paints a disturbing picture of our economic landscape. The governor said in his State of the State address that more people are working than ever before. We now see that is not the case. And what is striking is that job growth is so strong in many other states.

We went into these budget negotiations with a few major goals. Foremost, we wanted to avoid borrowing any money, given the state?s large existing debt load. We also wanted to provide money for roads, because obviously they need work. And we wanted to begin paying off the hospital debt. This budget meets all those objectives.

These and other bills are all pretty substantial, and every time we get ready to debate, somebody wants to table it because they want to add an amendment or make a change.

As long as he's not going to go meet with President Chavez personally, I'm very comfortable with the arrangement.

It is truly astonishing that the governor is trying to put the state into the insurance business.

It's been more apparent to me in recent weeks. Every time a member is missing who wants to provide input on a bill, we try to accommodate that. But it's become too routine and too easy for a member to say they won't be here the next day and therefore want a bill held.

I'm getting increasingly alarmed at how much we still have to do, given the few days that are left to do it. I've mentioned my concerns to the speaker, and he certainly shares those concerns.

We are all walking the same path, though it ain’t some road scored in earth or sky or sea. It’s the path of easing suffering, both ours and that of others, and we walk it till ever creature stands free of pain and lies, in unity with truth and peace, at last enlightened and made whole.

The knowledge annihilated his soul by relentless, insidious stages. Reality had turned on him. He could get no purchase on the universe. It moved onward, pitiless, caring not a whit.