Quotes About Town Halls

#1. Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

Mark McKinnon

#2. I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I'm out there, and it makes a huge difference.

Mindy Grossman

#3. However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#4. Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Dee Dee Myers

#5. Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.

Monica Crowley

#6. I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

Joe Walsh

#7. Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Joe Walsh

#8. If you want things to be different in your life, you have to make different choices and take different actions.

Paul McGee

#9. The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

Michael Kimmel

#10. If you have a lane, you have a chance.

Mark Spitz

#11. Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales.

Ivan Turgenev

#12. The earth has a life of its own.

David Bailey

#13. It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

Richard Branson

#14. Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Michael Gungor

#15. You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

Anais Nin

#16. I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

Ron Clarke

#17. I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

James Ellroy

#18. If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

Tim Walberg

#19. Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage. Life is tragic.

Timothy Keller

#20. Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

#21. The bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'

Dave Haywood

#23. Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him.

David Levithan