Congressional Failure Quotes

#1. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

Patrick Wilson

#2. If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Ruben Hinojosa

#3. It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

Robert Clive

#4. I know how I was born and I know that I have no choice. I know it may not show on the color of my skin, but I know it's in my heart and in my soul.

Sara Quin

#5. No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

Alan Greenspan

#6. As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle.

Rosa Brooks

#7. Separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More

Lesslie Newbigin

#8. Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in school combined.

Sneha Mehta

#9. The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

Peter Diamandis

#10. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Mary Oliver

#11. It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.

Philip Yancey

#12. I think we're suited."
"So you've said." ...
"But like you said in the car, we don't know each other, not really."
"I get it," I said on a rush, because I did get it. I did.
And yet ...
But then he admitted quietly, "I want to know you ... And I want to be known.

Penny Reid

#13. The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

J.G. Ballard

#14. the congressional ban on the universal patient identifier the single biggest failure in the history of health IT legislation.

Robert Wachter