Laxalt Quotes

#1. In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service.

Brian Sandoval

#2. Because we were born of old country people in a new land, and, right or wrong, we had not felt equal to those around us, and had had to do a little more than they in everything we did.

Robert Laxalt

#3. We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Mike Huckabee

#4. Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.

Deyth Banger

#5. A person could explode if he had to think too much.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#6. He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

Robert Laxalt

#7. All of us together were of a generation born of old country people who spoke English with an accent and prayed in another language, who drank red wine and cooked their food in the old country way, and peeled apples and pears after dinner.

Robert Laxalt

#8. Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

Robert Laxalt

#9. The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.

Paul Laxalt

#10. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

Paul Laxalt

#11. [Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.

Paul Laxalt

#12. If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.

Paul Laxalt

#13. What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

William H Gass

#14. I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.

Emma Cline