Quotes About Mary Landrieu

#1. If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Confucius

#2. I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff.

Terry Pratchett

#3. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Mary Landrieu

#4. Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

Mary Landrieu

#5. I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Mary Landrieu

#6. From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Mary Landrieu

#7. For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

Mary Landrieu

#8. A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

Steve Spurrier

#9. I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

Gillian Armstrong

#10. THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes ... " Revelation 2:7 Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

Oswald Chambers

#11. Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, .. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

Mary Landrieu

#12. We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

Mary Landrieu

#13. The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Chanakya

#14. He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.

Terry Goodkind

#15. The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

Mary Landrieu

#16. If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

Mary Landrieu

#17. To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

Herbert Marcuse

#18. As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care.

Mary Landrieu

#19. I cannot live qithout books"~ Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

#20. A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

Mary Landrieu

#21. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

Mary Landrieu

#22. If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

Mary Landrieu

#23. I am not a pyromaniac," I said. "I only set things on fire because it's expedient

Christina Henry

#24. Some people claim, 'I am the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta)'. Hey! What do you mean you are 'Knower-Seer'? 'You' are still 'Chandubhai'? The Knower-Seer state begins after one realizes the Self, after one attains the awareness of the Self [the soul].

Dada Bhagwan

#25. I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Mary Landrieu

#26. Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.

Mary Landrieu

#27. We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.

Goldie Hawn

#28. Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

Mary Landrieu