(10 quotes found)
“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.”
Lucille Ball
“[Allowing states to enforce their own standards would lead to a confusing patchwork of requirements, NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson said. Tyson added that a recent Supreme Court decision on a lawsuit exonerating Honda Motor Co. from liability in an air bag case made clear NHTSA has the authority to pre-empt state measures.] Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards, ... We're merely restating our authority. We're the agency that sets standards. Our standards are not minimum standards.”
Rae Tyson
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The park rides are regulated by the states as they see fit, ... It's a patchwork of regulations; there's no uniformity. Some states don't regulate them at all.”
Ed Markey
“We're not going to solve this problem with a patchwork approach at the state level. It's a national problem, and the need is to repair the national system. We're not going to erect barriers between states.”
Josh Bernstein
“The patchwork the corps did on the Ninth Ward was nowhere near the level they did on 17th Street. It wasn't the same quality work.”
Oliver Thomas
“Must we accept that the only alternatives are to either incrementally improve our current patchwork of identification documents, drivers licenses, Social Security cards and the like, or alternatively, move to some centralized federal data bases that aggregate all sorts of privacy-sensitive information,”
Mike Castle
“We're doing some makeshift patchwork, but I think we'll be OK.”
Tommy Lewis
“We need to have a whole system (of parks) working together instead of a patchwork of individual parks. The plan needs to work together with other village goals, such as open space, trails and other environmental issues.”
Dwight Johnson
“We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.”
Charles Territo
