County Commissioner Quotes & Sayings

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything. — Adam McKay

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. — Bertrand Russell

Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. — David Foster Wallace

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process. — Bill Huizenga

I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland. — Howard Warren Buffett

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. — Bob Beauprez

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own. — Ronald A. Heifetz

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. — Mike Quigley

Covering oneself, surrounding oneself with shapes and colors that correspond to a plan, mean that that plan is beginning to be realized. — Josephin Peladan

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears. — Sathya Sai Baba

My Name
Once when the lawn was a golden green
and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials
in the scented air, and the whole countryside pulsed
with the chirr and murmur of insects, I lay in the grass,
feeling the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become and where I would find myself,
and though I barely existed, I felt for an instant
that the vast star-clustered sky was mine, and I heard
my name as if for the first time, heard it the way
one hears the wind or the rain, but faint and far off
as though it belonged not to me but to the silence
from which it had come and to which it would go. — Mark Strand

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me. — Ricky Hatton

I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you.
It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe. — J.D. Robb

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. — Isabel Allende

I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears ... Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven. — Lee Roberson

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner. — Lyndon B. Johnson

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source. — Sue Monk Kidd

You pussy-whipped douche waffle. — Jamie McGuire

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. — Vincent Canby

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him. — Keith Morris