Funny Backbencher Quotes & Sayings

Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it. — Randy Owen

Lifting his gaze to Graham, he reached over and cupped his cheek. I'm not much on sharing emotions and crap. — Lia Davis

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge. — Soren Kierkegaard

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard

Some battles aren't worth fighting — Paula Hawkins

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard. — Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. — Juan Williams

I want to be known as the best teammate ever. — Kevin Garnett

I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids. — Condoleezza Rice

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone. — Isabel Allende

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true." — Ann Coulter

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything. — Brian Tracy

The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been. — Robert Dunbar