Top 32 Chaka Fattah Quotes
#1. Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#2. Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
Chaka Fattah
#3. I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
Chaka Fattah
#4. Long, long journey through the darkness
Long, long way to go
But what are miles across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?
Enya
#5. Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
Chaka Fattah
#6. But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Chaka Fattah
#7. I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Chaka Fattah
#9. The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.
Chaka Fattah
#10. I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
Teri Polo
#11. Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be smaller the smaller I am. Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous.
E.L. James
#12. The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
Chaka Fattah
#13. The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
Chaka Fattah
#14. There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.
Chaka Fattah
#15. Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.
Chaka Fattah
#17. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.
Spike Jonze
#18. I guess voice acting is just fun, interesting to say ... but it is.
Ashly Burch
#19. The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka Fattah
#20. But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
Chaka Fattah
#21. Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah
#22. There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
Chaka Fattah
#23. This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Chaka Fattah
#24. Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
Chaka Fattah
#25. We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
Chaka Fattah
#26. We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.
Chaka Fattah
#27. The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
Chaka Fattah
#28. While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Chaka Fattah
#29. African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Chaka Fattah
#30. When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah
#31. Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah
#32. It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")
T.H. White
