Congresswoman Barbara Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart. — Curt Schilling

In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it. — William J. Clinton

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets — Dean Koontz

If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. — Peace Pilgrim

He owns Douchedome. All assholes compete in the douche form of the Olympics at Douchedome. — Calia Read

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God. — Ann Hood

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? — Curly Howard

The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. — N. T. Wright

You are the mountain and the valley. — Hildegard Of Bingen

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down. — Shane Claiborne

I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman. — Jody Hedlund

There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore. — Jason Gann

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well. — Clement Greenberg

Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off. — Joe Biden

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it. — Luke Scott

America was passing her by. New York City was passing her by. Bridges and billboards bearing smiling people were passing her by. Skyscrapers and brownstones were rushing by. Fast. Too fast. Forever. — Imbolo Mbue