Grijalva Quotes

#1. Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil,

Iain Gately

#2. Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus.

Bernie Sanders

#3. What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Idries Shah

#4. No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

Raul Grijalva

#5. While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Raul Grijalva

#6. We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

Raul Grijalva

#7. This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

Raul Grijalva

#8. They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II

#9. I've always smiled... And matched with everyone around me. But eventually, I realized that there was no one around me anymore. It's not possible to have people like you when you don't even show the real you.

Kozue Chiba

#10. The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Raul Grijalva

#11. If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.

Raul Grijalva

#12. The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Bertrand Russell

#13. I hated puberty. It had been that horrible stage from child hood, to pre teen, and my stage from ugly, to ugly with menstrual cramps.

Melissa Grijalva

#14. More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.

Raul Grijalva

#15. We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

#16. We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

Raul Grijalva

#17. Since we are part of nature ... we empathize deeply with its ways ... they serve as models of how things should be ...

Lawrence Halprin

#18. All the colors
Of the rainbow
Hidden 'neath my skin
Hearts have colors
Don't we all know?
Red runs through our veins
Feel the fire burning up
Inspire me with blood
Of blue and green
I have hope
Inside is not a heart
But a kaleidoscope

Sara Bareilles

#19. He is always there, and the reasonable side of me always makes sure to push him down as far as I can. I notice it, but I always make sure to ignore it.

Melissa Grijalva

#20. How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

Raul Grijalva

#21. When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

Norman Reedus

#22. Happiness only comes when you make yourself worthy of happiness by loving others.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

Raul Grijalva

#24. Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

Raul Grijalva

#25. I don't believe in love because people are the cause of wars and death, cold hearted creatures such as we are incapable of such a dreamlike emotion

Melissa Grijalva

#26. We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

Raul Grijalva

#27. There is so much more to the notes being strum from his guitar, behind everything is raw emotion, and it's proof that he is human. That his heart beats just like mine and that sadness can infiltrate those that appear to have souls made out of stone.

Melissa Grijalva

#28. When you are able to fill your mind with tranquility and inner peace, this world becomes very peaceful.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.

Raul Grijalva