Inouye Quotes

#1. As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Troy Polamalu

#2. I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

Daniel Inouye

#3. Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Daniel Inouye

#4. Cats. Furry little sociopaths that we invite into our homes.

Jenna Inouye

#5. You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

Joy Browne

#6. I must run away, I must escape this very day or I shall go out of my mind.

Anton Chekhov

#7. Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Daniel Inouye

#8. I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

Herta Muller

#9. Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Daniel Inouye

#10. I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Daniel Inouye

#11. One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Daniel Inouye

#12. Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

Lee Myung-bak

#13. I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Jerry Spinelli

#14. I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

Daniel Inouye

#15. When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

Nash Summers

#16. We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

John Randolph

#17. Whenever you aren't manipulating your experience, you're meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you're controlling your experience again, and you've squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

Adyashanti

#18. There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Daniel Inouye

#19. The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Inouye

#20. No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Daniel Inouye

#21. I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye

#22. I'm afraid of losing myself. The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging, even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about it.

Michelle Hodkin

#23. There is no such man as a one-person hero.

Daniel Inouye

#24. I am the animal at the head of the pack. ... I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

David Tepper

#25. I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

Gloria Allred

#26. A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

Daniel Inouye

#27. We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

Steve Miller

#28. No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family

Jim Morrison

#29. The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.

Aleksandar Hemon

#30. Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.

Barack Obama