Raese Quotes & Sayings

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage. — John Raese

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there. — Jack Osbourne

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out. — John Raese

Taigs don't pay rates. — Sammy Wilson

My sister came out to the porch to meet us. I knew she missed having me around the house. We spent most of our time together and often shared a bed at night. I wondered what she did when the nightmares bothered her now.
"I'm sorry," I said, feeling guilty as I hugged her.
"You should be," she teased, clearly having no idea what I was talking about. "We're all ashamed of you. — Bijou Hunter

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business. — John Raese

When a horse wants to display himself ... he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up. — Xenophon

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war. — Wangari Maathai

Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic. — Debasish Mridha

People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another. — Damian Thompson

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now. — John Raese

It is pointless to be called by God's name and not have His respect — Sunday Adelaja

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can. — John Raese

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her. — John Raese

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm ... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm. — John Raese

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. — Phillip Noyce

A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun. — Isaac Watts

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do. — John Raese

The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern? — John Raese

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads. — Deborah Pryce

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed. — John Raese

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that. — John Raese

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America. — John Raese

I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian. — John Raese

Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on — Reginald Hill

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years. — John Raese

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody. — Edgar Winter

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells. — John Raese

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window. — Bob Dylan

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism. — John Raese