Amy Klobuchar Quotes

Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.

Amy Klobuchar

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GoalsWomenFocusYouResultsLead

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus III

MotherImaginationDinnerResilience

When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Robert Kennedy

TogetherCompetitionThinkWrongFix

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Ani DiFranco

SocietyElephantTalkHumanRoom

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

Spencer Wells

LiveJourneyTodayStoryYouBack

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

Roger Altman

PastWorldAmericaNowBecomeOil

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Mike Gallagher

ChildrenParentsThinkOwnLeftOur

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

WorkEconomicsWorldProblemsDebt

Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know, what you find is that even for these extremely minor offenses, people find themselves trapped in a permanent second-class status and struggling to survive.

Michelle Alexander

PeopleSurviveFreeYouFindKnow

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.

Molly Crabapple

FatherWomenGreatMenSayAdmire

I'm not the kind of person to Google myself, because you'll find whatever you're looking for. If you want to read something that says you're the greatest actor that ever lived, if you want to find something that is pretty hurtful, you'll find it.

Miles Teller

MyselfLookingYouFindPersonKind

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

New YorkPlayNewNeverRookieCamp

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

Lloyd Alexander

WritingKnowWantWillNeverOut

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