Top 28 Thornberry Quotes
#1. I brought you here didn't I?
Why so you can chain me up in your basement.
Don't give me ideas, Monroe or you'll never make it out of here. The only reason I haven't chained you in my basement is because I know you'll be missed.
B.B. Reid
#2. Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
Mac Thornberry
#3. The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry
#4. Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
Mac Thornberry
#5. Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.
Mac Thornberry
#7. No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry
#8. I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct.
Mac Thornberry
#9. To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true ... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
Barry McGuire
#10. We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
Mac Thornberry
#11. We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
Mac Thornberry
#12. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
David Levithan
#13. In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
Mac Thornberry
#14. In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry
#16. I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
Mac Thornberry
#17. When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
Mac Thornberry
#18. The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry
#19. For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
Mac Thornberry
#20. Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
Mac Thornberry
#21. My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
Mac Thornberry
#22. It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry
#23. The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Mac Thornberry
#24. still I cast my voice out into the void, hoping to reach something beyond distance
Neal Shusterman
#26. We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Mac Thornberry
#27. He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams.
Emma Forrest
#28. And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry
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