Legislative Debates Quotes

#1. While floor statements from today's [congressional] representatives are typically delivered to empty galleries and published into unread oblivion, legislative debates in the Reconstruction era were widely disseminated and closely observed.

Andrew Buttaro

#2. Children have fewer rights than almost any other group and fewer institutions protecting these rights. Consequently, their voices and needs are almost completely absent from the debates, policies, and legislative practices that are constructed in terms of their needs.

Henry A. Giroux

#3. The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

Gilbert Highet

#4. [I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Salvador Dali

#5. Do you think the guy on the subway that is touching himself feels like he's spreading love? I will tell you right now there is a law against that.

Sara Quinn

#6. Here is another one ready to die for you, Roland. What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?

Stephen King

#7. Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people's faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?

Ezra Pound