Ruth Ann Minner Quotes

#1. Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.

Ruth Ann Minner

#2. Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

Michel Sidibe

#3. This is a miserable world", says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target
misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark".

Wilkie Collins

#4. When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Steven Spielberg

#5. Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Ruth Ann Minner

#6. I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

Neal Shusterman

#7. The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress ... Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Winston Churchill

#8. Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Ruth Ann Minner

#9. Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.

Ruth Ann Minner

#10. Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

Ruth Ann Minner

#11. It's in my nature to fight for the underdog.

James Patterson

#12. If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Jim Croce

#13. So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

Ruth Ann Minner

#14. This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

Ruth Ann Minner

#15. Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Ruth Ann Minner

#16. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Richard Bach

#17. Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

Richard Baxter

#18. I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Ruth Ann Minner