Corrine Brown Quotes

#1. We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Corrine Brown

#2. I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Corrine Brown

#3. Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

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#4. I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.

Corrine Brown

#5. The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.

Louis Farrakhan

#6. This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

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#7. Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.

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#8. Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

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#9. I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

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#10. Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

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#11. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

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#12. The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

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#13. Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

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#14. Hoping so hard that there was one boy out there who wanted you as much as you wanted him, because you wouldn't know what you would do with yourself if this were not true.

Laura Ruby

#15. So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Corrine Brown

#16. States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

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#17. Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

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#18. Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Martin Kippenberger

#19. Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

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#20. As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

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#21. You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

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#22. Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

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#23. In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death.

Roland Barthes

#24. Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Emily Carr

#25. People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

Frederick Lenz

#26. In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.

Herman Melville

#27. You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

Corrine Brown

#28. Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

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#29. If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

Michael Caine

#30. The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Capers Jones

#31. If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

Corrine Brown

#32. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Harold Coffin

#33. When we hold firmly to God's truth, work through the difficult issues and challenges, and become clear in our understanding of the whys and the wherefores, we can truly say, without fear and without embarrassment, "God has said this in His Holy Word.

James R. White

#34. We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

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#35. The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Corrine Brown

#36. What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

Ernesto Sirolli

#37. Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

Frank Herbert

#38. 'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Laila Robins

#39. I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Corrine Brown