Telephones Quotes

If we have trouble with cell phones and land-line telephones, they serve as our communications element, ... We lost cells and land lines in the 2001 tornado, so we used them as our primary form of communications, with radios in different vehicles.

It`s been unbelievable. Really, everybody, I believe, has a lot of empathy for the people who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina. It has really been overwhelming. Our telephones ring constantly. Everyday, people are calling in or coming in with new fundraising ideas.

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we`d both purchased telephones and what price we`d paid!

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people`s salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

We have one staff person. We have one investigator. We have no capital case defense lawyers, no office, no telephones, no computers.