Tammy Duckworth Quotes

#1. For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.

Mark Kirk

#2. My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

Tammy Duckworth

#3. I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated - black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board.

Madonna Ciccone

#4. I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Dakota Fanning

#5. If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Richelle Mead

#6. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

William Graham Sumner

#7. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

Tammy Duckworth

#8. It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Unknown

#9. Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.

Sloane Crosley

#10. What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Robert Southey

#11. I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

Tammy Duckworth

#12. Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jakob Nielsen

#13. My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

Tammy Duckworth

#14. When you wake up in the morning, you must really wake up totally-physically and mentally. Otherwise, don't bother with the day.

Chungliang Al Huang

#15. We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!

Tammy Duckworth

#16. Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Liz Rosenberg

#17. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth

#18. Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Thucydides

#19. Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Jack Kornfield