Quotes About Missourians

#1. Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.

Jay Nixon

#2. The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically alter Medicare and Social Security.

Claire McCaskill

#3. While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

Jay Nixon

#4. After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

Claire McCaskill

#5. I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

Claire McCaskill

#6. More Missourians are working than ever before.

Bob Holden

#7. I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Claire McCaskill

#8. By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.

Jay Nixon

#9. Shadow brushed his teeth and washed his face in the cold water of the little bathroom, and then walked back down the hall to the sitting room, turned out the light, and was asleep before his head touched the pillow.

Neil Gaiman

#10. I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

Fred Saberhagen

#11. Everything is there in being simple in LIFE.

Me

#12. Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

Ledisi

#13. People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Jerry Seinfeld

#14. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Robert Downey Jr.

#15. When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.

Mandy Patinkin

#16. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

#17. Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Will Smith

#18. It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.

Shiri Appleby

#19. It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Orson Scott Card

#20. When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

Vivien Leigh

#21. Congratulations to your mom and dad for birth of a sweet child!

Sorry that I couldn't wish them when you were born.

Hasil Paudyal

#22. She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.

Harper Lee