Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

Rod Stewart

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

Rob Morrow

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Tim Bishop

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Victoria Woodhull

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

George Sand

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Eugenio Montale

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Francine Busby

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

Jane Rule

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Geraldine Ferraro

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Grace Napolitano

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

Jeanne Moreau

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jacques Delors

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Jacques Delors

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Mary Astell

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

John Dingell

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Joe Lando

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Joan Collins

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

Jim Ramstad

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Kevin Eubanks

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

Paul Gillmor

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

Mitch McConnell

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Margaret Sanger

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Martin Feldstein

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Christopher Eccleston

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Russ Carnahan

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Winona Ryder

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

William J. Brennan

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.