Marty Meehan Quotes

#1. Forget-me-nots... She loved those flowers more than any other in their big beautiful garden or in the whole wide world for that matter. They were sky blue, just like his eyes, they held a promise... Forget me not.

Melanie Sargsian

#2. Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

#3. What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Marty Meehan

#4. We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Marty Meehan

#5. Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

#6. I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

Kristanna Loken

#7. As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

#8. It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs] ... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

Carrie Mae Weems

#9. Talk to the press and we'll bury you.

Max Clifford

#10. Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

Marty Meehan

#11. Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.

Marty Meehan

#12. Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Marty Meehan

#13. The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Marty Meehan

#14. Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

Marty Meehan

#15. I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Pauline Hanson

#16. The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Joseph Conrad

#17. It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

Marty Meehan

#18. I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Studs Terkel

#19. Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Marty Meehan

#20. He may understand teeth, but he has no clue how the mind works.

Derek Taylor Kent

#21. Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Louis L'Amour

#22. Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

Umberto Eco

#23. At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

Marty Meehan

#24. I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

Marty Meehan

#25. Fatigue, paradoxically, is almost always a result of living a life of too little action.

Steve Chandler

#26. The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

Marty Meehan

#27. The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Marty Meehan

#28. Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Marty Meehan

#29. Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Marty Meehan

#30. Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

Marty Meehan

#31. For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

Marty Meehan

#32. First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Marty Meehan

#33. I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

Marty Meehan

#34. The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

#35. It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

Oscar Wilde

#36. A fearless person wins half the battle before it begins.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

Marty Meehan

#38. Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

William Shakespeare