Mel Martinez Quotes

#1. I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

George W. Bush

#2. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

#3. A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

Will Rogers

#4. I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

Mel Martinez

#5. Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Nora Ephron

#6. The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#7. From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

Mel Martinez

#8. It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.

Mel Martinez

#9. We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

Mel Martinez

#10. Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Mel Martinez

#11. Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.

Mel Martinez

#12. Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

Vince Neil

#13. Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible.

Mel Martinez

#14. I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

Suki Waterhouse

#15. Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

Mel Martinez

#16. I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Mel Martinez

#17. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have
others think of us.

Jane Austen

#18. Personality is a series of unbroken gestures.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Peter Kreeft

#20. In America, all things are possible.

Mel Martinez

#21. He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone.

William Goldman

#22. She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair

P.G. Wodehouse

#23. In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

Katharine Graham

#24. Putting words onto paper - when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection - is a holy act.

Pat Schneider

#25. Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

Richard Brookhiser

#26. It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

Mel Martinez