Kevin Yoder Quotes

#1. Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Kevin Yoder

#2. Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

May Sarton

#3. There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.

Kevin Yoder

#4. Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

Kevin Yoder

#5. To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Kevin Yoder

#6. It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.

Robin Hobb

#7. What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

Kevin Yoder

#8. As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said, "Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody's life. If you have enough metadata you don't really need content.

Bruce Schneier

#9. When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

Christian Kane

#10. I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Michael Connelly

#11. In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.

Kevin Yoder

#12. Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."
from "A Day in the Country

Anton Chekhov

#13. To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#14. Respect a man, he will do it the more.

James Howell

#15. Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#16. Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Laozi

#17. We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

Chris Christie

#18. When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.

Kevin Yoder