Schweikert Quotes & Sayings

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it. — Mary Karr

It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one. — Neal Boortz

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This — John Owen

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction. — David Schweikert

Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents. — Jim Butcher

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do. — Meg White

My talent is numbers. — David Schweikert

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles. — David Schweikert

Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole. — Eoin Colfer

Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice. — Wilhelm Grimm

It's a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork. — Andy Weir

Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like. — Chuck Klosterman

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

For the loser now
Will be later to win — Bob Dylan

One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married. — David Schweikert

How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks? — David Schweikert

I didn't come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique - for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream. — David Schweikert