Lois Capps Quotes

#1. Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Lois Capps

#2. With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

Lois Capps

#3. If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.

Mike D

#4. We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Lois Capps

#5. I don't have a problem with treason," I said. "I can stop anytime." I

John Scalzi

#6. Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Lois Capps

#7. The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Lois Capps

#8. And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Lois Capps

#9. Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

Lois Capps

#10. Became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

Anne Sexton

#11. It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.

Lois Capps

#12. There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Lawrence Durrell

#13. Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

Randy Alcorn

#14. In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

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#15. That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

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#16. My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

Lois Capps

#17. I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

Lois Capps

#18. Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

Lois Capps

#19. Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

Lois Capps

#20. There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

David Zayas

#21. Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#22. In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Lois Capps

#23. Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

Lois Capps

#24. I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Lois Capps

#25. In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

Lois Capps

#26. I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

Lois Capps

#27. I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

David Lee Roth

#28. Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

Lois Capps

#29. To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

Ruud Gullit

#30. Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Lois Capps

#31. Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

Lois Capps

#32. Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

Shirley Hufstedler

#33. There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do not doubt me on this. I know it sounds hard to believe. Those people will be found somewhere on the political spectrum, and they vote Democrat.

Rush Limbaugh

#34. There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.

Leah Price

#35. As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

Lois Capps

#36. The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Anonymous

#37. National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

Lois Capps

#38. I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

Lois Capps

#39. Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Lois Capps

#40. It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bailey Chase

#41. What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

Lois Capps