Hilfiker Quotes

#1. In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

Bill Dedman

#2. Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

David Hilfiker

#3. I enjoy going on hikes, and I enjoy the occasional yoga. The one thing I'm good at athletically - and I don't know if I'm good at it anymore because I haven't done this in a while - I can throw a pretty good spiral in football, but I have no idea how to play.

Bridgit Mendler

#4. Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries.

Bernie Sanders

#5. I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

Ellen Burstyn

#6. Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

Thomas Frank

#7. An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon