Corker Quotes

#1. Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.

Justine Larbalestier

#2. So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is
we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

Bob Corker

#4. There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.

Tasha Tudor

#5. My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

Bob Corker

#6. Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

Jeremy Taylor

#7. Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

Louis Zamperini

#8. It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Erykah Badu

#9. I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Craig Raine

#10. I want to see the economy rebound.

Bob Corker

#11. The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

Pat Buchanan

#12. I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

Bob Corker

#13. The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Monica Crowley

#14. The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

Kedar Joshi

#15. I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

Bob Corker

#16. If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.

Bob Corker

#17. Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.

Luke Treadaway

#18. If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Bob Corker

#19. I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Bob Corker

#20. People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.

Bob Corker

#21. If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'

Bob Corker

#22. There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

Bob Corker

#23. In business, you try to solve problems.

Bob Corker

#24. Best way to get something done is to give it to someone who is busy, said Vetinari.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Republicans will own Congress.

Bob Corker

#26. We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Bob Corker

#27. The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.

Bob Corker

#28. Not every problem is solvable, okay.

Bob Corker

#29. I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Bob Corker

#30. I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

Bob Corker

#31. I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Bob Corker

#32. Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

Bob Corker

#33. The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.

Bob Corker

#34. You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Winston Churchill

#35. You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.

Bob Corker

#36. My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

Bob Corker

#37. I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

Bob Corker

#38. I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

Bob Corker

#40. Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

Elizabeth I

#41. The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Jane Fonda