Bargaining Chip Quotes

#1. A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

Mallory Ortberg

#2. It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.

Lizz Winstead

#3. Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

Jim Bridenstine

#4. If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

Ronald Reagan

#5. I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for.

Shirley Marr

#6. China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in its efforts to get more say in global decision-making

Wang Yizhou

#7. I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Ashley Tisdale

#8. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?

Jake Barton

#10. I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

Kristen Bell

#11. In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections ... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Cynthia McKinney

#12. Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

Ina May Gaskin

#13. All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Wilbur Smith

#14. As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die ... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

Tom Araya

#15. If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.

Melyssa Winchester

#16. Everyone has a view of what's pretty and what's not pretty, and [plastic surgery] just doesn't look pretty to me.

Heidi Klum