Daniel Akaka Quotes

#1. I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

Twyla Tharp

#2. To create a kind society, be kind to all.

Debasish Mridha

#3. It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

Daniel Akaka

#4. A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Daniel Akaka

#5. As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

Daniel Akaka

#6. The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Philip Yancey

#7. A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

Daniel Akaka

#8. New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

Daniel Akaka

#9. Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God.

N.D. Wilson

#11. The Americans, he laughed drunkenly. They build more cars than anybody in the world, and take them out and dump them in terrible traffic jams. The only thing crazier than the Americans were the Russians, who never had traffic jams because they didn't have cars.

Stephen Hunter

#12. I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

Liza Minnelli

#13. Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Daniel Akaka

#14. I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

E.F. Schumacher

#15. Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

Cassandra Clare

#16. There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Daniel Akaka

#17. People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Antonia Fraser

#18. It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Horace

#19. Out. He watched her when they were at Kate's tennis

Barbara Delinsky

#20. I always have someplace else I'd rather be, even if I don't know where that is, yet.

Ann Aguirre

#21. I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

Daniel Akaka

#22. We all have that certain Gage at some point in our lives.

Melissa M. Futrell

#23. I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Daniel Akaka