Tammy Baldwin Quotes

#1. Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

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#2. I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

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#3. We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

William Lashner

#4. Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

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#5. Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.

Angela Carter

#6. All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive ... because I'm a woman ... even because I'm a lesbian.

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#7. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

#8. When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

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#9. Love and ego can never exist together, just as the Sun and shadow cannot.

Banani Ray

#10. The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

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#11. Don't ever let your door to be a wall! Let your door be a door, opening wide and inviting with goodness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

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#13. I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

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#14. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.

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#15. Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

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#16. In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

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#17. Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.

Yann W. Tanoe

#18. I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

Moby

#19. I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

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#20. Writing is fun. Promoting? Not so much...

Bea Cannon

#21. Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken.

J.D. Robb

#22. I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players.

Derek Fisher

#23. Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Nina Easton

#24. Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.

Jesse Kellerman

#25. Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Maria Popova

#26. I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

Gore Vidal

#27. It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

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#28. I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

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#29. From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

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#30. People who have a victim mentality - those who constantly tend to blame others - never walk in the victory Jesus promises.

Perry Noble