I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else. Paul O'Neill More Quotes by Paul O'Neill More Quotes From Paul O'Neill Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing Paul O'Neill This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. Paul O'Neill man blind people way I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now. Paul O'Neill say private-life want life I pray daily... for peace. Paul O'Neill pray daily peace Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. Paul O'Neill give you intention people