Bob Goodlatte Quotes

#1. Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.

Charles Dickens

#2. If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Bob Goodlatte

#3. With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

Donald Trump

#4. Before you can have, you must do; but before you can do, you must first become.

Tommy Newberry

#5. Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona

#6. The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Bob Goodlatte

#7. If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

Bob Goodlatte

#8. I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Ella Maillart

#9. The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

Bob Goodlatte

#11. The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

Bob Goodlatte

#12. The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Humphry Davy

#13. People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

Bob Goodlatte

#14. But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.

Bob Goodlatte

#15. If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

David Eller