Henry Waxman Quotes

#1. All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

Frances Beinecke

#2. The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

Henry Waxman

#3. I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

Bat For Lashes

#4. The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

Henry Waxman

#5. Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.

Lemony Snicket

#6. You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#7. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Henry Waxman

#8. Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Honore De Balzac

#9. I love taking chances.

Wayne Newton

#10. Why is it that we, as humans, always hope that something will change, even when we know the answer?

Bella Jewel

#11. I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Jenny Eclair

#12. Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Henry Waxman

#13. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

Molly Peacock

#15. I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

Henry Waxman

#16. Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

Henry Waxman

#17. If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Henry Waxman

#18. I can show you the union of pleasure and pain. I can make your body feel things you never imagined.

Roxy Sloane

#19. Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

Henry Waxman

#20. Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

James Joyce

#21. What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Henry Waxman

#22. I opened the door as quickly as I could - speedy as a snail in glue. My fine-motor coordination was set on suck mode.

Devon Monk