Top 36 Hank Johnson Quotes

#1. There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

Anthony Minghella

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#2. We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Hank Johnson

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#3. As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

Hank Johnson

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#4. America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Hank Johnson

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#5. The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

Hank Johnson

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#6. Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

Hank Johnson

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#7. Obsidian the gods forbade And stone they greatly feared.

Sarah J. Maas

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#8. My brain was telling me this was a bad idea and I told my brain to shut the fuck up, because it rarely told me anything helpful.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#9. Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

Hank Johnson

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#10. You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

Bruce Springsteen

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#11. Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Hank Johnson

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#12. Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.

Hank Johnson

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#13. The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

Hank Johnson

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#14. In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There's a reason why people like (al-Qaida leader Osama) bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

George W. Bush

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#15. A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

Jamey Johnson

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#16. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize

Hank Johnson

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#17. College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Hank Johnson

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#18. Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

Hank Johnson

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#19. I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

Hank Johnson

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#20. The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.

Hank Johnson

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#21. The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Hank Johnson

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#22. Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

Hank Johnson

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#23. The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

Doris Janzen Longacre

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#24. The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

Hank Johnson

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#25. If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.

W.B.Yeats

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#26. Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

Hank Johnson

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#27. I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

Hank Johnson

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#28. An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

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#29. Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Hank Johnson

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#30. Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

Hank Johnson

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#31. As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Hank Johnson

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#32. Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

Hank Johnson

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#33. Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

Hank Johnson

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#34. There's just this ... .an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

Virginia Woolf

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#35. Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

Joan D. Chittister

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#36. Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

Jamey Johnson

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