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All Quotes Collection
"As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans."
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"African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans."
30
"According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world."
36
"February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II."
42
"I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely."
35
"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
65
"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."
52
"The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not."
44
"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
44
"The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?""
57
"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
43
"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
46
"To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison."
45
"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
50
"Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution."
39
"Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable."
45
"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."
41
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
55
"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"
41
"When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?"
48
"Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it."
42
"You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me."
46
"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."
66
"We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was."
44
"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
60
"Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are."
40
"Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative."
49
"'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that."
34
"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."
55
"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
66
"I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit."
38
"We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."
43
"I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em."
51
"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
44
"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
51
"It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that."
40
"It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats."
56
"Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin."
40
"Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America."
38
"No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it."
41
"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God."
40
"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy."
38
"I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up."
54
"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can."
55
"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there."
38
"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."
57
"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
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