Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit including the environment.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says 'Go buy a postage stamp in London ' I'll go and do it.

In France everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

We first fought... in the name of religion then Communism and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Excuses change nothing but make everyone feel better.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

We as conservative intellectuals should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children who are all Aquarians. Instead we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.