Jeffords Quotes

#1. Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.

John McCain

#2. The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

Charles Kennedy

#3. I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Tracy Kidder

#4. There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Jim Jeffords

#5. I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

Israel Broussard

#6. We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

Jim Jeffords

#7. I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'

Amanda Peet

#8. This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

Jim Jeffords

#9. A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

Jim Jeffords

#10. Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

Jim Jeffords

#11. Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Jim Jeffords

#12. The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.

Jim Jeffords

#13. The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

John Dewey

#14. Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Jim Jeffords

#15. I am not aware ... that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear.

Charles Dickens

#16. As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

#17. I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Jim Jeffords