Speier Congress Quotes & Sayings

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all. — Chris Lowe

I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'
- Katrina, 'Convicted — Dee Tenorio

I want to be the best and her only. — Karina Halle

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter. — H.L. Mencken

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society. — A.C. Grayling

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time. — Plato

All guys involved in high school athletics are more or less the same - former athletes themselves, big guys, maybe played a little college ball at some shitty school in some shitty program, charismatic for teachers, a little goofy and dim, their lives outside of their sport's season barely worth living, their once kinda hot wives having grown old-looking and probably fat. They were like my seventh-grade coach, except maybe with five or so more I.Q. points. Anyway, I liked them well enough. — A.D. Aliwat

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova. — Jackie Speier

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have. — John Hodgman

As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest. — Jackie Speier

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. — Thomas Jefferson