Roskam Quotes

#1. I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

Ty Simpkins

#2. There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

Anna Quindlen

#3. A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.

Josiah Royce

#4. Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

Abraham Verghese

#5. I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.

Art Donovan

#6. Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

Peter Roskam

#7. That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Thomas Carper

#8. More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.

Peter Roskam

#9. Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs.

Peter Roskam

#10. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

John C. Danforth

#11. My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

Peter Roskam

#12. I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

Peter Roskam

#13. Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

Peter Roskam

#14. It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

Peter Roskam

#15. Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.

Peter Roskam

#16. We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.

Peter Roskam

#17. If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Kris Kristofferson

#18. We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#19. One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

Peter Roskam

#20. Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

Peter Roskam

#21. Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Peter Roskam

#22. Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#23. We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.

Johnny Hunt

#24. You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#25. All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children ...

Robertson Davies

#26. Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

Peter Roskam

#27. All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Mark Haddon

#28. I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.

Louis Navellier

#29. Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.

Peter Roskam